Excellent postgraduate research degree (PhD / MD) opportunities in a leading (RAE 6*) department.

The Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, one of the UK’s leading institutions for epidemiology and health services research, is inviting applications from outstanding, highly motivated graduates with good honours or Masters degrees in relevant disciplines for PhD studentships tenable from October 2009. Projects in statistics, epidemiology, human genetics, bioinformatics, economics, sociology, and psychology applied to medical and/or clinical issues are encouraged.

Research areas include: quantitative and qualitative health services research; aetiological, genetic, lifecourse, clinical, nutritional and cancer epidemiology; effectiveness and acceptability of health services/care; health/illness/ disability in older age.

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The Energy Management Group is keen to take on PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers and has a number of funded PhD studentships in Renewable Energy and related subjects.

• PhD Studentship in Scalable Pico-Hydro Power
• PhD Studentship in Renewably-Powered Wireless Health Sensors
• Two PhD Studentships in Advanced Electrical Drive Systems
• EngD in Urban Micro-Renewable Power Generation Systems
• Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Electrical Energy Management

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PhD studentships from Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance. The studentship available at any Scottish university.

International prize studentships for PhD research 2009.
The Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance is a collaboration of leading Scottish Universities whose aim is to work together to consolidate and develop Scotland’s position as an international research leader in computer science and informatics. As part of this, the Scottish Graduate Academy in Informatics and Computer Science offers 20 international prize studentships per year to outstanding PhD candidates.

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