University of Glasgow ONE HEALTH

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Key Facts:

  • Open to home, EU and international students
  • 4 years stipend at UKRI rates (estimated to be in the region of £15,000 for 2019/20)
  • Annual research support budget of £2,000
  • Travel support costs of £1,000
  • Tuition fee waiver at Home/EU rates (Internation students will be responsible for covering the difference)
  • Application deadline: 5.00pm, Monday 21 January 2019

We are seeking outstanding PhD candidates for University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow Joint PhD Studentships below:

The vision for this theme is to shape the future practice of combined animal and human health management through partnerships across disciplines and institutions.

One Health can be interpreted widely, but in the context of this studentship programme we focus on the design, implementation and evaluation of interventions in the management of animal populations for the primary purpose of controlling zoonotic disease and improving human health. Such interventions will focus around the development and use of vaccines, drugs, genome editing for resilience, behaviour or husbandry practices, market economics or combinations thereof.

Projects will highlight the critical importance of social science in leading, designing, planning, implementing and evaluating One Health interventions – including both qualitative (e.g. ethnographic research) and quantitative (e.g. behavioural economics) approaches. We also recognise an important role for fundamental research in understanding the epidemiology of zoonotic pathogens including anti-microbial resistant (AMR) bacteria (e.g. the transformative contributions pathogen genomics has made to understanding transmission). We encourage multi-disciplinary projects that generate knowledge relevant to the design, validation or improvement of interventions in animals for the control of zoonotic disease, and the benefit of human health.

The joint studentship programme will build on existing platforms and synergies within and between our respective institution. For example, Edinburgh Infectious Disease (EID) comprises 190 different research groups across the University and neighbouring institutions interested in infectious disease research. Of note, at the University of Edinburgh, the medical and veterinary schools and the Roslin Institute work closely together within the same College (CMVM), and additional expertise and facilities are available in the School of Biological Sciences, and in Social Science in the College of Arts Humanities and Social Science (CAHSS). Further support for ‘One Health’ Science in the University of Edinburgh comes from the Global Academy for Agriculture and Food Security, The Center for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health, and the Center for Biomedicine, Self and Society.

‘One Health’ is one of the University’s six Research Beacons, with research supported across the Colleges of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, and Social Sciences, and through interdisciplinary structures including the award-winning Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, the MRC Centre for Virus Research, the Wellcome-Trust-funded Centre for Molecular Parasitology, the Institute for Health and Wellbeing and the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit.

Students will also take advantage of the existing joint collaborative projects such as the Gates-funded Centre for Supporting Evidence-Based Interventions (SEBI), Epidemiology, Population health and Infectious disease Control (EPIC), and established interactions with key organisations such as GALVmed.

How to Apply

1) Prospective students should review the list of potential projects proposals and queries regarding eligibility can be directed to cahsspg.awards@ed.ac.uk (University of Edinburgh) or pgr@glasgow.ac.uk (University of Glasgow) .

2) Applicants should register their details online. Please note that this is not an application to study at the respective universities.

3) Unless otherwise stated, applicants may submit applications, via email to pgr@glasgow.ac.uk, up until the application deadline of 5.00pm, Monday 21 January 2019.

Required documentation should be submitted as a combined PDF document using the file name ‘<Theme>, <Applicant First name Surname> ie ‘One Health, Phillipa Dean’:

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