Postgraduate Opportunities
The Centre for Public Health (CPH) brings together academic researchers embracing clinical research, epidemiology and laboratory-based studies who work closely together on a variety of projects and share a commitment to the use of a population based and/or a patient-focused approach to their research. Our aim is to recruit, train and inspire some of the very best postgraduate students.
Our commitment to clinical and translational research puts us in the mainstream of current major research funding initiatives with a wide range of funding sources for both UK/EU and overseas students. In collaboration with Queen’s University Management School, the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at Queen’s and the Institute of Agri-Food and Land Use, together with a number of outside partners, we have been awarded a UKCRC five-year, £5 million grant to create one of five national UK Centres of Excellence in Public Health (www.qub.ac.uk/coe). We are committed to using a range of research approaches to impact on national and regional health policy, to increase understanding of the genetic and environmental determinants of disease and to improve patient outcomes.
The CPH has brought together experts from a variety of research backgrounds including epidemiology and public health, relevant clinical specialities and laboratory sciences, whose common aim is to translate genetic, clinical science and epidemiological insights into effective clinical interventions for common multi-factorial disease, using a broad range of clinical and laboratory based research programmes. Important research themes include the role of nutritional factors in disease prevention, genetic epidemiology and ageing. We provide a dynamic and stimulating environment for current and future research staff that will facilitate the training and mentoring of talented postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows and clinician scientists in a range of research methodologies, allowing the CPH to foster strategic research interests in new areas.
Our aim is to create and sustain a world class research environment with top class laboratories and IT facilities in a supportive and collegial atmosphere.
2013 PhD Opportunities
Full details on a wide variety of available PhD programmes within CPH can be found here.