The Bloomsbury Colleges PhD Studentships

The Bloomsbury Colleges consortium brings together five University of London colleges comprising Birkbeck (Bbk), the Institute of Education (IoE), the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

In conjunction with the UCL School of Pharmacy (SoP), the consortium is offering twelve PhD Studentships, each of three years duration, to start in the academic year 2012/13.  The Studentships will cover course fees (at the usual level for UK and EU Studentships) and a student stipend.  They will encompass a wide range of topics spanning the biomedical and social sciences, reflecting the diversity of disciplines represented in the consortium.  The Studentships will be supervised by two of the partner colleges which are indicated after each Studentship.

Click on a Studentship from the list below for further details.

Studentships 2012

• Integration of multiple genomic datasets for the dissection of the biological basis of autism spectrum disorder. (Bbk, LSHTM)

• Games, Performance, and Literary-Media convergence. (Bbk, IoE)

• Insights from veterinary interprofessional interactions: implications for interprofessional education (IPE) in the veterinary curricula. (IoE, RVC)

• Modelling developmental trajectories in autism: combining clinical and computational approaches. (IoE, Bbk)

• Process and qualitative evaluation of a sports-based HIV prevention programme in South African high schools. (LSHTM, IoE)

• Human trafficking in the Mekong Sub-Region (Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam): a quantitative analysis of health needs and policy responses in the context of debates on migrants' rights. (LSHTM, SOAS)

• Measuring and modelling information and disease transmission under anthropogenic change. (RVC, LSHTM)

• Modulating NFkB signalling to target natural osteoarthritis in the STR/ort mouse. (RVC, SoP)

• Markets, migration and reconfigurations of child care arrangements within the family: private solutions and public policies. (SOAS, Bbk)

• Tree product resources and food security in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso: assessing sustainability, seasonality and patterns of food consumption. (SOAS, LSHTM)

• Targeting mitophagy: the activity of Keap1 and its cell-protecting reversible inhibitors. (SoP, RVC)

• Natural and synthetic inhibitors of the Mur ligases: A promising target for novel anti-tuberculosis therapy. (SoP, Bbk)