LCIRAH PhD Studentship Opportunities: Call for Applications 2013
[Vacancies]
Institution:
Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH)
United Kingdom
Expiry date:
02/04/2013
URL:
http://www.lcirah.ac.uk/
Additional info:
The Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) has been established under a generous grant from the Leverhulme Trust to build an intersectoral and interdisciplinary platform for integrating research in agriculture and health, with a focus on international development goals. This Centre is enabling researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and Royal Veterinary College (RVC) to work together to develop unifying research approaches and methodologies in ‘AgriHealth’.
As part of this process, LCIRAH is offering four London-based PhD studentships, each 3 years in duration, to start in the 2013/2014 academic year. Studentships will cover fieldwork costs, student stipend, and UK/EU tuition fees. Each studentship will be registered in one of the participating Colleges and jointly supervised by health, economy and agricultural researchers. We invite student applications on the following four topics:
1. Can healthy and sustainable diets in developing countries also be affordable? For more information on this topic contact Prof. Andy Haines () or Dr. Rosemary Green () at LSHTM. More detailed information, application forms and details about how to apply are available from: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/funding/phdstudentshipleverhulmetrust.html. Closing date: 5th April 2013.
2. Oil seeds, macroeconomics and health: a whole-economy model of India's tax policies. For more information on this topic contact Marcus Keogh-Brown () at LSHTM. More detailed information, application forms and details about how to apply are available from: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/funding/phdstudentshipleverhulmetrust.html. Closing date: 5th April 2013.
The Food Expenditure Ratio: a tool for monitoring the effects of changing food prices on food security and nutrition. For more information on this topic contact Prof. Andrew Dorward () at SOAS. More detailed information, application forms and details about how to apply are available from: http://www.soas.ac.uk/registry/scholarships/lcirah.html. Closing date: 15th April 2013.
3. Public investments, agricultural strategy and malnutrition in rural South Asia. For more information on this topic contact Prof. Bhavani Shankar () at SOAS. More detailed information, application forms and details about how to apply are available from: http://www.soas.ac.uk/registry/scholarships/lcirah-project-studentship.html. Closing date: 2nd April 2013.
All projects are inter-disciplinary and we are looking for students with a background in an area related to the suggested projects who would enjoy and be comfortable with learning and using skills from different disciplines.
How to apply: Applicants should apply to the relevant College following the links above.
Posted on 13/03/2013
