SPARC – PhD Scholarships

Bridging the Divide: Living with Multimorbidity

We were recently successful in the University PhD scholarship scheme competition where we were awarded three scholarships which will focus on the experience of living with multiple health conditions.  We have identified the following three areas:  Multimorbidity where dementia is one of the conditions; Multimorbidity in mid-life where mental health is implicated and the embodied experience of living with multiple conditions. We can now advertise our three scholarships:

We are aiming to recruit from a wide field of possible candidates, please distribute our advert to your networks as you feel appropriate.  

Good news on scholarships for the faculty

Dear Colleagues

I am writing to announce the results of this year’s University-funded PhD scholarship competition. Thank you for your patience in waiting slightly longer than usual for the outcomes to be communicated to Faculties.

As you will know,  the allocation process changed this year, in favour of a new bidding procedure, with no prior allocations to Faculties. It was a tough competition, with some excellent submissions, and inevitably some areas fared better than others.  I am pleased to say that the Faculty of  Health and Social Care was awarded 3x PhD scholarships and one PDRA (band 7) for the cluster PoWER 360: Programme for Women Achieving Excellence in Research.  Congratulations to everyone involved!

I should be grateful if you could arrange for this news to be disseminated to the successful bidders.  I would be happy to feed back to those whose bids were unsuccessful on this occasion.

Each of these studentships will need to be ready for advertising shortly. If they have not been already, each project should be carefully defined, so that applicants have a clear sense of what the studentship entails. We are hoping to be able to advertise before the Christmas break. Colleagues should liaise with Dr Nigel Shaw in the Graduate School about this process.

Please let me know if you have any queries about any part of this process.

All good wishes,

Valerie Sanders

Director

Graduate School

Scholarship success for Faculty

Dr Judith Dyson

Dr Fiona Cowdell

Judith Dyson, Fiona Cowdell, Peter Draper and Lesley Gratrix in collaboration with colleagues in other faculties have been successful in the recent scholarship competition and have been awarded three PhD studentships and a band 7 postdoctoral researcher for the PoWER 360 programme of research; to understand the barriers to women achieving excellence in research, to understand the lived experiences and sense of well-being of men and women in academia and the perceived value of Athena SWAN to both researchers and senate level university executives. 

Rev Dr Peter Draper

Lesley Gratrix