About this scholarship
A scholarship opportunity is available for a PhD student to investigate the effects of interpregnancy interval on child and maternal health outcomes. The PhD research is an important part of a larger nationally (NHMRC) funded project on providing an evidence base for improved World Health Organisation recommendations on birth intervals. The PhD research is a secondary data analysis project that does not require further collection of data. All health and medical records have already been obtained and are ready for analyses in electronic format.
The research will be conducted under the supervision of Dr Gavin Pereira, School of Public Health in collaboration with the Telethon Kids Institute.
Eligible courses
- Honours (1st class), or, Master degree by Research, or Master degree with >25% research component with high academic performance
- Applications are invited from those with a degree in statistics or biostatistics, epidemiology, public health, or from a quantitative/data science.
- Applicants should have a strong background in biostatistics or epidemiology
- Applicants with experience with statistical software, particularly R, are encouraged to apply.
How to apply
Interested applicants please email your expression of interest including the following documents to : Dr Gavin Pereira (gavin.f.pereira@curtin.edu.au) before 18th December 2016: a letter expressing interest in the position, Current CV, and academic transcripts. Submitting a short sample of academic writing (e.g., excerpt of honours/masters thesis, published article) is encouraged but not mandatory. Please use “EoI PhD Scholarship” as the subject heading of your email.
Shortlisted applicants will be advised to apply for admission via Curtin online e-application.
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