Bangor University’s ALPHAcademy is pleased to invite applications for the upcoming Preventative Health PhD Studentship Scheme. This exciting PhD opportunity will support talented individuals to conduct doctoral research in a topic related to preventative health and health equity.
Remit
This scheme aims to build research capacity within the health and social care setting in Wales. At this time we will fund up to two high-quality research projects which address the prevention agenda within health and social care in Wales. Applications from proposed supervisors are welcome across a broad range of topic areas related to preventative health and health equity.
Priority areas
Our focus is on prevention - helping people stay healthy, happy and independent for as long as possible, not just treating them when they become ill. Recognising the influence of wider social determinants of health, ALPHAcademy brings together leaders and aspiring leaders from across services to learn by doing, utilising evidence-based insights.
We are particularly interested in projects which address the priority areas outlined in the A Healthier Wales Welsh Government guidance, and which include collaboration with external partners (such as health boards, thirds sector organisations and private companies).
We also strongly encourage collaboration between supervisors from different departments, schools or colleges within Bangor University, therefore priority will be given to projects which demonstrate cross-departmental collaboration between applicants.
Eligibility
- The host institution must be Bangor University
- Applications must come from two applicants based at Bangor University at the time of applying
- Applicants must have a permanent Bangor University contract of at least 0.6 FTE.
- Applications must come from the proposed PhD supervisors, who will be defined as the Applicants to this scheme and who will recruit the student, with support from ALPHAcademy.
- On receipt of an award, successful applicants must recruit a suitable student to the project by a negotiated deadline.
- Applications must have support from Head of Department
- Applications are encouraged to involve a partner (e.g. health board, third sector organisation) that can add value to the proposed research project, although this is not essential.
- Applicants must be willing for a member of the ALPHAcademy to act as a third supervisor for the PhD to provide preventative health expertise.
- Applications must relate to preventive health, health equity or a related health or social care topic area.
- The scheme cannot be used to fund part of an existing course of studies leading to a PhD qualification.
- Requested funding must include an annual stipend of £17,668 per student - research costs must not exceed £5000 and the total requested funding must not exceed £72,892.
Please refer to call guidance for more information.
Application assessment process and outcomes
The Application Form (including the Applicants’ CVs) should be submitted as a Word document or PDF with all required authorised signatures (scanned or electronic) included. The form should be submitted by one of the Applicants to the following address: ALPHAcademy@bangor.ac.uk
The deadline for submission of applications is 13:00pm on 28/11/2022. We expect to inform all applicants of the outcome by 22/12/2022
The Preventative Health PhD Studentship scheme currently operates a two-stage application process. In the first stage the assessment steps are as follows:
- Eligibility and basic competitiveness checks
- ALPHAcademy Studentship Committee (ASC) reviews application quality
- Final funding recommendations made
In the second stage ALPHAcademy will support successful applicants to identify a suitable PhD student.
If you have any questions regarding the application process, please email us: ALPHAcademy@bangor.ac.uk