Deadline: 10 or 24 January 2020 as relevant to your course (University January Application Deadline)
Value: Full fees and a stipend of £18,000 per annum full time (up to three years), £9,000 per annum part time (up to six years).
Restrictions: Applications are invited from people who meet the following criteria:
- You (or someone you care for, such as a family member or partner) have experience of an illness or long-term condition that you would like to research, perhaps with a view to changing the way healthcare staff think and act;
- You want to be trained to undertake social science research into the illness experience – for example, sociology of health and illness, medical education, or sociology of scientific knowledge (as distinct from campaigning or teaching);
- You already have a university degree (at least a 2.1 at undergraduate level, and perhaps a Master’s degree in a relevant subject);
- You have received an offer for one of the following programmes:
- MSc in Translational Health Sciences (FT or PT)
- DPhil in Primary Health Care (FT or PT)
- DPhil in Translational Health Sciences (FT or PT) (from 2021)