PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Epidemiology in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity in precision medicine and global health at the University of Glasgow. Professor Pasquale Maffia is recruiting a PhD student for an MRC Precision Medicine project conducted in collaboration with the Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit (MEIRU). The project, Metabolomic signatures of hypertension, diabetes and cardiometabolic multimorbidity in rural and urban Malawi: stratification, inequalities and prediction of incident disease , will investigate whether metabolomic...

Swansea University is offering a fully funded PhD studentship in Health, Wellbeing and Data Science through the ESRC Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS). The opportunity is based in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Science in Swansea, United Kingdom, and is open to UK and international students. The pathway investigates pressing health and social challenges using observational, descriptive, trials-based, computational, and population-level methods. Potential research ma...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in vector-borne disease surveillance at the University of Glasgow, with the research based at the Manhiça Health Research Centre and the University of Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique. The thesis will investigate mosquito ecology, vector genomics, and climate-related disease transmission. The project is associated with VectorGrid-Africa and involves joint supervision, field-based research, and periodic training visits to Glasgow. Applicants should have a Master's degre...

The University of Bristol is recruiting two postdoctoral Research Associates/Senior Research Associates to join Dr Eunice Lo’s UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship team and the Climate and Health Research Group. The Futureproof project develops weather-health prediction science to strengthen the climate resilience of the NHS. The successful researchers will analyse weather forecasts, climate datasets, human health and healthcare data; run environmental-epidemiology models; and produce weather-health f...

UCL is offering a PhD project in data-driven housing risk modelling for healthier homes at the Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. The research will use machine learning to predict damp and mould risk across the English housing stock, drawing on datasets such as the English Housing Survey. The project will integrate dwelling and household characteristics, climate change scenarios and neighbourhood factors to develop robust, explainable and transferable prediction models. Models will b...

[ESRC studentship covers tuition fees and an annual tax-free living stipend at UKRI minimum rates; current stipend is £21,805 for 2026/27.] This PhD studentship at Swansea University sits within the ESRC Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) pathway in Health, Wellbeing and Data Science . The project area brings together observational, descriptive, and trials-based methods with large population-scale datasets to tackle pressing health and social challenges. Research in this area ...

The University of Manchester is seeking a full-time Research Fellow to join a Wellcome-funded project evaluating the impact of upcoming UK social media restrictions on young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Based in the School of Environment, Education & Development within the Education Division, the Research Fellow will coordinate participant recruitment and data collection for ecological momentary assessment and interviews, contribute to qualitative and quantitative analyses, prepare evid...

The University of Birmingham is recruiting a part-time Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Health. Based in Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK, the post contributes to the NIHR-funded FUSION global health research programme on preparedness and response for non-communicable diseases during flood disasters in India. The project works with flood-prone communities in Bihar and Kerala to co-develop, implement, and evaluate primary-ca...

Applications are now open for a PhD opportunity in veterinary epidemiology and data science at the University of Bristol , supervised by Professor Kristen Reyher through the SWBio DTP . The project, “Using One Health AMU and AMR data to inform stewardship” (Project ID: 3594), addresses a major One Health challenge: the relationship between antimicrobial usage (AMU) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) . The research focuses on ruminant livestock and aims to use epidemiological , statistical , and ...