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Engaging People in Research, Bolton, September 2012

Tuesday 17 July 2012 ▶
The University of Bolton are hosting a regional postgraduate event, funded by the BSA.More details...

Calling Postgrad Supervisors & Students

Wednesday 27 June 2012 ▶
We are planning to introduce an ‘Awards’ section to MedSoc online in the very near future and would like to hear from you if you have recently supervised a successful student - or if you are the successful student - so we can share the good news with the medical sociology community.More details...

Fees Only PhD Studentship in Sociology Health & Illness

Friday 27 April 2012 ▶
The PhD studentship is in sociological/social research into sickle cell/thalassaemia, and is based at De Montfort University.More details...

Research Assistant in Applied Health Research, Glasgow Caledonian University

Tuesday 03 April 2012 ▶
Applications are invited for an enthusiastic and suitably qualified researcher to contribute to the development and evaluation of a nurse-led tailored self-management intervention for people affected by stroke.More details...

Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Ethics & Law, Southampton

Tuesday 03 April 2012 ▶
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced qualitative researcher to work on a charity funded research project which aims to explore the views of patient groups and healthcare professional about the consent and confidentiality issues in genetic medicine.More details...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Vacancy, Brunel University, London

Monday 02 April 2012 ▶
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join our group of researchers in the School of Health Sciences and Social Care at Brunel University in West London.More details...

PhD Studentship in the School of Languages & Social Sciences, Aston University

Wednesday 28 March 2012 ▶
The School of Languages and Social Sciences (LSS), invites applications for a fully funded PhD studentship from strong candidates in any of the research areas covered by the School.More details...

Research Associate/Fellow Post, CLAHRC-NDL, Nottingham

Tuesday 27 March 2012 ▶
Applications are invited for the above mentioned post based in the Implementation Theme.  The successful candidate will conduct literature reviews and qualitative fieldwork, encompassing interviews, observation, document collation across three counties, analysis and writing up of findings for interim and final reports, papers for academic and practitioner conferences/journals.More details...

PhD Studentship: Experience of acupuncture

Wednesday 14 March 2012 ▶
The HTA have funded THE Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre. to conduct a feasibility and pilot study evaluating acupuncture and standard care for pregnant women with low back pain (the EASE BACK study).More details...

Children’s Liver Disease Foundation PhD Fellowships

Monday 12 March 2012 ▶
Children’s Liver Disease Foundation (CLDF) has funds to support two CLDF PhD fellowships (£75k each) starting in October 2012.More details...

Funded PhD Opportunity, Edinburgh

Monday 12 March 2012 ▶
The aim of this doctoral work is to carry out a qualitative study with parents and siblings of children under 5 affected by epilepsy in order to identify the impact of early onset epilepsy on families.More details...

Research Fellow in Bioethics/Philosophy, Birmingham

Friday 09 March 2012 ▶
We are seeking a Research Fellow (Grade 7) to work with Professor Heather Draper to evaluate an ethical advisory service being offered to developers and users as part of the SURVEILLE (Surveillance: Ethical Issues, Legal Limitations and Efficiency) project. The post-holder will take a lead role in developing research objectives and protocol for the evaluation, collection and analysis the data and in writing up the results.More details...

Associate Research Fellow post, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry

Friday 24 February 2012 ▶
The PCMD wishes to recruit an Associate Research Fellow to support the work of Professor John Campbell (PCMD, Exeter), Dr Rebecca Barnes (PCMD, Plymouth) and Dr Jamie Murdoch (University of East Anglia). More details...

Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness Award Scheme for 2012

Friday 17 February 2012 ▶
The Foundation for the Sociology of Health Illness, the charity which owns
the journal of that name, provides a number of award schemes to support the
development of medical sociology / sociology of health and illness.More details...

PhD Studentship available in the Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester

Wednesday 15 February 2012 ▶
Tackling inequalities in neonatal outcomes: an investigation of variation in care pathways following antenatal diagnosis of a severe fetal anomaly.

An exciting, cross-disciplinary doctoral studentship exploring socioeconomic inequalities in pregnancy and neonatal outcomes is available in the Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester.More details...

Studentships at The University of Nottingham

Monday 06 February 2012 ▶
The following 2 studentships are on offer at the University of Nottingham, School of Sociology and Social Policy, for an October 2012 start.More details...

Qualitative Research Fellow Post, University of Edinburgh

Tuesday 31 January 2012 ▶
We are seeking to appoint a research fellow to undertake a longitudinal qualitative sub-study within The REPOSE (Relative Effectiveness of Pumps over MDI and Structured Education) Trial.More details...

Bloomsbury Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) for the Social Sciences

Thursday 15 December 2011 ▶
The Bloomsbury DTC is a consortium of four University of London colleges in the Bloomsbury area. We  invite applications from high calibre candidates with good honours degrees for full and part-time ESRC-funded research studentships.More details...

Surrey Scociology Department now inviting applications for DCT Doctoral Studentships

Thursday 08 December 2011 ▶
The renowned Sociology Department at the University of Surrey is part of the ESRC South East Doctoral Training Centre (along with Kent, Reading, and Royal Holloway) and is now inviting applications from excellent candidates who wish to pursue a PhD in any sociological topic related to the Department's areas of substantive or methodological expertise.More details...

Economic & Social Research Council Doctoral Studentships

Tuesday 06 December 2011 ▶
Having won a coveted place in the national network of training centres accredited by ESRC, King's Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Centre (KISS-DTC) is awarding a number of ESRC-funded postgraduate research studentships to support doctoral research and training in the social sciences at King's.More details...