The NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) are delighted to announce that we have a new cohort of ten PhD students starting their journey with us in developing their career in public health research. The School aims to inspire and train the next generation of academics into public health research, and gives the opportunity to combine academic research with practice as a career pathway.
Studentships are either full-time or part-time and start April and October 2022. PhD student projects are aligned to the SPHR research programmes:
- Health inequalities
- Public mental health
- Healthy places, healthy planet
- Children, young people & families
List of successful projects, students and members:
- Using novel synthesis methods to identify and optimise components for public mental health interventions, Thomas Davies, University of Bristol
- Framing of ‘obesity’ and its impact on UK health policy, Susannah Tooze, University of Cambridge
- Listening to all voices in school-based prevention research – exploring involvement and research participation and identifying opportunities for more inclusive research processes, Lauren Cross, University of Cambridge
- Are healthy diets really more expensive than unhealthy diets? Understanding drivers of choice between healthy and unhealthy food and drinks, Bethany Parkes, University of Exeter
- Increasing timely cervical screening participation in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation, Caroline Charlton, Fuse
- Reducing health inequalities through embedding community participation and co-production in public health systems, Christopher Knight, LiLaC
- Longitudinal analysis of the impact of Green and Blue Spaces on health, Rukun Khalaf, LiLaC
- The role of app-based tools in nudging behaviour change towards more sustainable and healthier diets, Esther Curtin, LSHTM
- Implementation of relationships, sex and health education in English schools, Ines Sanguino Martinez, LSHTM,
- Decision-analytic modelling to estimate the economic implications of population obesity and preventative actions on local authority budgets, Bassit Malik, PHRESH
Find our out more about our PhD students here.