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wellcome PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships
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Seven fully funded PhD scholarships available in the Wellcome Doctoral Training Centre for Public Health Economics and Decision Science (PHEDS)
We are seeking bright and enthusiastic graduates who want to make a difference to population health and have a background in disciplines including the health, social, mathematical or computer sciences. Read more
Drug-lifestyle interactions for weight management in South Asians and white Europeans living with overweight or obesity
Funding Source. Wellcome Trust grant. Proposed start date. 1 October 2023. Pharmacological treatment for obesity combined with lifestyle intervention promotes clinically important weight loss and amelioration of obesity-related comorbidities. Read more
Transforming neuronavigational imaging for assisting brain tumour surgery
A 4 year funded PhD studentship is available in the UCL. Department of Medical Physics and biomedical Engineering. Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory. Read more
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine PhD Studentships
Join a world-class research environment. We offer a number of funded PhD studentships to high calibre graduates interested in scientific research in a range of areas across medicine and veterinary medicine. Read more
Oscillatory rhythms of sensory sampling – fully-funded PhD
You will be working at the Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, and the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL, funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant. Read more
Oscillatory rhythms of sensory sampling – fully-funded PhD
You will be working at the Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, and the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL, funded by a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant. Read more
Understanding the role of indoor air pollution on lung cancer risk in never-smokers of different ethnicities: a pilot study
Proposed start date. 1 October 2023. There is increasing recognition of individuals who have never smoked developing lung cancer, especially in women and non-White ethnic groups. Read more
Intersectional inequalities in obesity management and related multimorbidity
Closing date for applications. 3 March 2023. Capitalising on the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), this PhD project will, firstly, investigate inequalities 1) in access to NHS weight management interventions and 2) in the associations of obesity with incident multimorbidity. Read more
Health inequalities in multimorbidity; the roles of stress, physical activity and sedentary behaviour on markers of disease risk.
Proposed start date. 1 October 2023. Stress, physical (in)activity, and sedentary time are risk factors for non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs). Read more
Understanding the presentation of frailty in those with multiple long-term conditions and the effect of rehabilitation
Proposed start date. 1 October 2023. Those with multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs) often suffer from a debilitating degree of frailty which includes severe muscle weakness (termed sarcopenia) which leads to reduced quality of life and poorer outcomes. Read more
Adaptation and testing of the Your Covid Recovery© programme to address ethnicity, language and digital divide health inequalities.
Proposed start date. 1 October 2023. A high proportion of individuals experience persistent COVID symptoms after their acute COVID infection [described as “Long COVID” (1)]. Read more
Pharmacotherapy and obesity in younger adults with multiple long term conditions: examining the added value of exercise
Proposed start date. 1 October 2023. The prevalence of multiple long term conditions (MLTCs) in young adults (<40 years old) is dramatically increasing and is associated with an extreme risk phenotype, longer disease exposure and increased risk for chronic complications (including cancer). Read more
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