Methodology PhD Studentship in Maternity Disparities NIHR Maternity Disparities Consortium in United Kingdom

🎓 Call for applications: a PhD/Higher Degree by Research project at The University of Queensland in Australia focused on maternal health , pregnancy , help-seeking behaviours , and healthcare access in rural and remote communities . The project explores how pregnant women seek care, make health decisions, and navigate healthcare systems in settings where access to services may be limited. It is especially relevant for students interested in public health , reproductive health , health inequaliti...

Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) is advertising a funded 3.5-year PhD studentship in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health , jointly funded by NIHR ARC Kent, Surrey and Sussex . The project asks whether linked data can help more women access NHS cancer screening . The research will investigate why some women are less likely to take up screening, combining linked health and care data , an evidence review , and qualitative research to better understand health inequalities and i...

PhD opportunity at Aston University in psychotropic decision-making during pregnancy and severe mental illness (SMI) . This funded PhD project, titled PsychotROpiC dEciSion-making pregnancy-SMI (PROCESS) , is based in the College of Health and Life Sciences at Aston University in Birmingham, United Kingdom, and is delivered in partnership with Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospital. The project explores how shared decision-making between prescribers, pregnant women with SMI, nurses, pharmaci...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at Queen Mary University of London (Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health, Wolfson Institute of Population Health) on virtual wards / Hospital at Home , health inequalities , ethnicity , culture , deprivation , and qualitative research . The project, titled Virtual Wards, Real Inequities: Understanding the Intersection of Ethnicity, Culture, and Deprivation in Remote Health Services , explores how older South Asian people and their families experience virtual ward ...

Bloomsbury Colleges is advertising a PhD studentship through the BAM50 (50 Years of Becoming a Mother) project, a research programme revisiting Ann Oakley’s landmark work on motherhood and maternity care. The project examines the social experiences and evolving meanings of reproduction, with this doctoral project focusing on imaginaries of ‘involved’ fatherhood and their relationship to maternal subjectivity over the last 50 years. The studentship is supervised by Professor Charlotte Faircloth (...