PhD (Doctor of Philosophy)

This is a three, 3.5 or four-year research programme, depending on the nature of the project.

Students undertake a research project under the guidance of an academic supervisor and, unlike a postgraduate degree by coursework and dissertation, there are no formal lectures or seminars and work is not formally examined until after the final thesis is submitted. The Graduate School also offers an induction programme and skills training opportunities for all research students to support their studies and to help with career planning.

Applied Health Sciences

The Institute of Applied Health Sciences pursues an agenda of excellence in health services research, with a strategy based upon applying current methodological strength to selected clinical topics.

Current areas of strength include cohort studies, large-scale multicentre randomised trials, health economic research, health services research, and health technology assessment.

• Find out more about the Institute of Applied Health Sciences
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Example projects:

You may already have a PhD project in mind, however, if you are still deciding the following is a list of exciting PhD projects that we are currently looking to fill. Click on the project titles to find out more details about each PhD project.

If you are interested in one of the projects listed then please contact any of the Supervisors noted below and also copy your message to our Graduate School Administrator at f.insch@abdn.ac.uk.

• Trial Forge: improving the efficient of randomised trials
• EMPOWERING women to make informed reproductive choices
• Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) – what might protect from disease progression
• How do individuals make decisions for health-related topics? Using visual data to improve the economic modelling of discrete choices
• Role of time and risk preferences in the intergenerational transfer of health behaviours
• Development and testing a novel symptoms impact scale for patients with medically unexplained symptoms