<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div> Enviado do meu iPhone</div><div> Início da mensagem encaminhada </div><blockquote type="cite"><div>De: Thomas Astell-Burt <<a href="mailto:thomasab@uow.edu.au">thomasab@UOW.EDU.AU</a>> Data: 20 de julho de 2016 09:05:57 BRT Para: <a href="mailto:allstat@jiscmail.ac.uk">allstat@JISCMAIL.AC.UK</a> Assunto: Three Full-Time PhD Scholarships Available in Wollongong, Australia Responder A: Thomas Astell-Burt <<a href="mailto:thomasab@uow.edu.au">thomasab@UOW.EDU.AU</a>> </div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=koi8-r"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"> <style></style> <div class="WordSection1"> Dear all. We have 3 full-time PhD scholarships based in the PowerLab at the University of Wollongong. The PhDs are in social epidemiology and focussed around issues of diabetes care, health outcomes, lifestyles and health service use. If you have promising students with good epidemiological and/or statistical skills, or skills in geographic information systems and an interest in public health, please encourage them to apply. The scholarships are open to international students. More details, including how to apply, can be found below. The deadline to apply is July 31 2016. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, Thomas.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Three Full-Time PhD Scholarships Available in Wollongong, Australia<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/job/872936_3_PhD_Scholarships_Available-Quantitative_Data_Analysis_in_Lifestyles_Health_Outcomes_Health_Service_Use" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/job/872936_3_PhD_Scholarships_Available-Quantitative_Data_Analysis_in_Lifestyles_Health_Outcomes_Health_Service_Use</a> <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Topic area: Social, economic and environmental inequalities in health, lifestyle and health service use among middle-to-older aged adults living with type 2 diabetes in Australia<o:p></o:p> Supervisors: Associate Professor Thomas Astell-Burt and Dr. Xiaoqi Feng<o:p></o:p> Location: All 3 PhD candidates will be based in the Population Wellbeing and Environment Research Lab (PowerLab), within the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia<o:p></o:p> Scholarship Stipend: $27,000 pa<o:p></o:p> Duration: 3 years<o:p></o:p> Starting date: As soon possible<o:p></o:p> Opportunity: Each of the PhD candidates will conduct cutting edge research within the ‘PowerLab’, enhancing transferable skills in project management, critical thinking, teamwork, data analysis, report writing and presentation techniques. The PowerLab conducts quantitative research to enhance understandings of how where people live may influence lifestyles, health and health service use; for better and for worse. The PhD candidates will work alongside A/Prof. Astell-Burt and Dr. Feng on an NHMRC-funded project that will focus on understanding how neighbourhoods contribute to lifestyles, health outcomes and health service use among people living with type 2 diabetes. It is anticipated that each of the PhD candidates will explore these issues by learning and applying skills in quantitative data analysis to one of the following areas of interest: (i) lifestyles; (ii) health outcomes; (iii) health service use.<o:p></o:p> <h4 style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.75pt;background:white"> <o:p> </o:p></h4> <h4 style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.75pt;background:white"> DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE<o:p></o:p></h4> Notes on candidate eligibility:<o:p></o:p> · The PhD Scholarships are open to domestic and international candidates. Please note, international candidates can also apply for international postgraduate award to cover international tuition fees.<o:p></o:p> · It is essential that each candidate has a Bachelor’s degree with Honours, or a Master’s degree in a relevant discipline (including Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Services Research, Sociology, Psychology, Economics, Quantitative Geography, Geographic Information Systems, Statistics).<o:p></o:p> · It is essential for candidates to have basic quantitative skills and/or demonstrable experience of working with statistical packages (e.g. Stata, MLwIN) and/or GIS software (e.g. ArcGIS, QGIS).<o:p></o:p> · Candidates must engage in full-time study on the University of Wollongong campus in Wollongong<o:p></o:p> · English language proficiency (e.g. IELTS≥6.5) must align with the <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/deref/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uow.edu.au%2Ffuture%2Finternational%2Fapply%2Fenglish%2Findex.html%3FssSourceSiteId%3Dsocialsciences" target="_blank">UOW English language requirements</a>.<o:p></o:p> · Demonstrable experience in multilevel modelling and/or epidemiological studies of health service use data would be an advantage.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> How to apply:<o:p></o:p> Applicants will need to submit an email to both A/Prof. Thomas Astell-Burt and Dr. Xiaoqi Feng attaching a full CV, degree transcripts, the details of two academic referees, an example of your best academic written work (this can be a piece of coursework or a published journal article), evidence of English language proficiency (e.g. IELTS≥6.5) and a cover letter of no more than 1 page of A4 containing the following information:<o:p></o:p> · Indicate the area(s) you are interested in at the top of the letter (lifestyles, health outcomes, health service use – you can state more than one);<o:p></o:p> · State why you would like to be considered for a PhD Scholarship and rationale for the selected area(s) of interest;<o:p></o:p> · Describe your experience in using statistical and/or GIS software to examine quantitative data.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Closing date: 31st July 2016 (please note applications will be reviewed upon submission)<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Dr Thomas Astell-Burt<o:p></o:p> Associate Professor of Public and Population Health<o:p></o:p> School of Health and Society | Faculty of Social Sciences<o:p></o:p> Room 143, Building 15 | University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia<o:p></o:p> T +61 2 4221 5081<o:p></o:p> <a href="http://socialsciences.uow.edu.au/has/contacts/UOW208890.html">academic profile</a> | <a href="https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=Ub4eGuwAAAAJ&hl=en">google scholar profile</a> | <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas_Astell-Burt">researchgate profile</a><o:p></o:p> <a href="http://socialsciences.uow.edu.au/">socialsciences.uow.edu.au</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/UOWsocialscience">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/uow">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/uow/">Instagram</a> | <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/edu/school?id=10255">LinkedIn</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> University of Wollongong CRICOS: 00102E<o:p></o:p> Your feedback is appreciated and can be submitted at: <a href="mailto:feedback@uow.edu.au">feedback@uow.edu.au</a> <o:p></o:p> NOTICE: This email is intended for the addressee name and may contain confidential information. <o:p></o:p> If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. <o:p></o:p> Please consider the environment before printing this email.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to <a href="mailto:listserv@jiscmail.ac.uk">listserv@jiscmail.ac.uk</a>, leaving the subject line blank. </div></blockquote></body></html>