3 PhD Scholarships, University of Wollongong, Australia (2016-2017)

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

Supervisors: Associate Professor Thomas Astell-Burt and Dr. Xiaoqi Feng

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

Scholarship Stipend: $27,000 pa

Duration: 3 years

Starting date: As soon possible

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.

Further details:
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