PhD in Cycles, Signals and Causality for Digital Health Data Analysis Across Menstrual Cycles University of Bristol in United Kingdom

Funded PhD project at the University of Bristol within the GW4 BioMed3 MRC Doctoral Landscape Programme . This project, titled “Modelling the impact of homelessness and related social exclusions on health in the UK” , focuses on homelessness , social exclusion , epidemiology , mathematical modelling , medical statistics , data science , and public health . The research will use UK datasets, advanced statistical methods, and mathematical models to quantify health harms associated with homelessnes...

University of Oxford’s Botnar Research Centre is advertising a PhD/DPhil project in clinical epidemiology and medical statistics focused on emulating and extending randomised controlled trials (RCTs) using routinely collected real-world medical record data from Europe. The project explores the benchmark – expand – calibrate approach for causal inference across different data types, including electronic health records from the UK and other European countries, and across multiple study types such ...

PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford in Agentic AI for Analytical Code Development to Support Regulatory Real-World Evidence Generation (Botnar-2026-04). This DPhil in Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics is a 3.5-year project based at the Botnar Research Centre , University of Oxford, focused on using agentic artificial intelligence and large language models to translate study protocols into reproducible analytical code for real-world evidence studies. The project sits at the int...

PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford in Development and Validation of External Control Arm Methodology Using Clinical Trial and Real-World Data (Botnar-2026-03). This DPhil in Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics focuses on developing and validating external control arms (ECAs) using routinely collected real-world healthcare data and electronic health records. The project will compare ECA-derived treatment effects with completed randomized controlled trials, assess the value of li...

Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Bristol in the MRC GW4 BioMed Doctoral Training Partnership. This project asks how childhood disadvantage contributes to inequalities in adult health, work, and financial outcomes. The research will examine relationships between different forms of childhood disadvantage and longitudinal trajectories of physical and mental health, employment, and benefit receipt using linked cohort data, health records, and administrative datasets. Research area keyword...