The Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology is offering two 1+3-year studentships funded by MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling.

MRC Centre Studentships

UK/EU PhD studentship
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health

The Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology is offering two 1+3-year studentships funded by MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling. The students will be based in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, St Marys Campus, Paddington.

In the first year, students who have not previously studied for a relevant MSc will be expected to join either the MSc in Epidemiology, a 1-year taught course giving a thorough grounding in epidemiological research, or a new 1-year MRes course. Students with existing MSc level qualifications will be expected to undertake the MRes unless they have comparable existing research training. The MRes course is shared with the 4-year Wellcome Trust PhD programme. At the end of the first year, following satisfactory progress (a merit in either the MSc or MRes), students will progress to the 3-year PhD programme. Supervisors for PhDs will be discussed at the candidate selection stage and confirmed after completion of the MSc/MRes. All students will belong to the Graduate School which provides a full programme of training in research and transferable skills.

The studentship will pay UK/EU tuition fees and a stipend of £17,500. The studentship is available to UK nationals or EU nationals who have lived in the UK for at least three years immediately preceding the date of an award. For full eligibility details please see the following Medical Research Council (MRC) terms and conditions:

http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Fundingopportunities/Applicanthandbook/Studentships/index.htmn

Owing to funding restrictions applications from overseas candidates cannot be considered for this scheme.

Applicants should have, or expect to achieve, a first or upper second class degree or UK equivalent in a relevant subject*.

Informal enquiries about the studentship should be directed to ide-phd@imperial.ac.uk .

The closing date for applications for the October 2014 intake is 31^st January 2014.

Interviews of all short listed candidates will take place on 24^th-25^th February 2014.

Applications should consist of 2 parts, preferably as a combined single PDF document:

1. A full CV which must include your title & full name, date of birth, gender, nationality, first degree (BSc, MSc, MBBS etc), degree class awarded or marks/grades to date, subject of first degree, place of study and university awarding the first degree, and the names, mailing addresses and email addresses of at least two academic referees (The email addresses of your referees should be for their official institution email address. You should not supply personal email addresses from Hotmail / Gmail / Yahoo etc).

2. A one page statement indicating why you want to join this PhD programme.

Please ensure that you include your own email address on your CV as this will be our main method of corresponding with you.

Please email your completed application to: ide-phd@imperial.ac.uk stating "MRC 1+3 PhD Application" in the title.

Please note that candidates must fulfil College admissions criteria, details of which can be reviewed at:

//www3.imperial.ac.uk/entryrequirements/graduate

*relevant subjects include all of those from the quantitative and life sciences – including biology, zoology, genetics, biochemistry, medicine, biomedical sciences, economics, mathematics, physics, statistics.