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PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds in Preferences for Falls Prevention Technologies in Residential Social Care Settings . This funded doctoral project sits within the School of Medicine and is linked to the SENSITISE programme at the University of Leeds, an NIHR-funded project focused on how technologies are designed, commissioned, and implemented in adult social care. The research will use stated preference methods , such as a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) , to understand how residen...

Fully funded PhD studentship at the University of Bedfordshire for an October 2026 start, based in Bedford & Luton, United Kingdom . The project sits within the Institute for Health and Wellbeing Research and focuses on behavioural science , public health , physical activity , health inequalities , health psychology , and wellbeing . The research explores how faith and community organisations can act as catalysts for physical activity, preventive health, and wellbeing in diverse communities. Thi...

PhD studentship at the University of Birmingham in the Centre for Evidence and Implementation Science , focused on health inequalities in orthopaedics and rehabilitation . The project will examine how socioeconomic deprivation, ethnicity, age, sex, geography, language, and healthcare access shape care pathways, rehabilitation experiences, and patient outcomes. The research uses a mixed-methods design and may include systematic reviews/meta-analyses , analysis of routinely collected health data o...

Sheffield Hallam University is advertising a Transforming Lives PhD scholarship in perinatal mental health inequities , focused on co-designing tailored interventions to improve outcomes in underserved, high-risk communities. The project sits in Health and Social Care and is especially relevant to public health, nursing, psychology, medical science, sociology , and maternity-related research. The advertised topic explores how social disadvantage, ethnic minority background, migration, poverty, d...

Exciting fully funded PhD studentship at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) through the NIHR Maternity Disparities Consortium . The project is titled “Methodology PhD Studentship – Developing approaches to identify, prioritise and evaluate enhanced care pathways for at-risk newborn populations (Code: T3-2)” . It focuses on newborn health , health inequalities , implementation science , data science , and health services research , with an emphasis on improving hospital-to...