Evaluation of an online symptom checker for women with menstrual and menopausal problems

View this scholarship in full on the KESS 2 website: http://kess2.ac.uk/21059-2/

This is a funded PhD, including a generous stipend and tuition fees, with well-resourced circumstances for a successful scholarship.

Here is an exciting opportunity to develop and evaluate an online symptom tool which is a new approach to allow women to easily access support and solutions to symptoms relating to female health issues including menopause, menstrual and sexual health.

The selected candidate will apply their psychological knowledge and research skills and ambition to evaluate this new resource for women. This applied health research project will allow the student to develop transferable knowledge and skills in this most exciting and active field of women’s reproductive health research.

Studentship:
The studentship will cover the fees for a 3-year full-time PhD programme and pay a stipend of circa £14kp.a. There is also around £9k project support costs available for consumables, travel, minor equipment, training (including the KESS Grad School) and conference attendance.

The position is available from 1st October 2018.

Eligibility of Student:
To be eligible to hold a KESS studentship, you must:
• have a home address in the Convergence area (details below)* at the time of registration.
• have the right to take up paid work in the Convergence area* on completion of the scholarship.
• be classified by the University as ‘home’ or ‘EU’ for tuition fees purposes according to the University’s guidelines.
• satisfy University of South Wales’s admissions criteria: see below, qualifications and experience and application process

Qualifications and experience:
Eligible applicants will:
• Have a degree (2i or higher) in Psychology (with GBC)
• Preferably have an MSc in a relevant area (e.g., Health or Clinical Psychology)
• Possess a reasonable understanding of factors affecting medical help-seeking
• Be highly self-motivated, with the capacity to learn and develop quantitative and qualitative research techniques and have excellent academic writing skills
• Have well-developed and positively collaborative interpersonal skills
• Have an ability to deliver technical reports and communicate findings in writing and orally
• Be willing and able to travel and to work in an industrial setting

Application Process:

To download an application package, please visit: http://gro.southwales.ac.uk/studentships/KESSII/participant/

For any queries on eligibility, please contact: KESS Team at Research and Innovation Services, University of South Wales: [Email Address Removed] Tel: 01443 482578

For informal enquiries or further programme information, please contact: Dr Deborah Lancastle ([Email Address Removed] ).

Further information at:
http://staff.southwales.ac.uk/users/1296-dslancas

Closing date for applications: midnight Sunday 22nd July 2018.
Interviews will be held 2nd August 2018