RESEARCH DEGREES Applications are welcomed for PhD, MPhil and MD degrees in any of our main areas of research.
MPhil/PhD
Entry Requirements: Applicants should hold an upper second class honours degree, or its equivalent, in an appropriate subject. Assessment: Original research and thesis. IELTS: 6.5 Funding: Research Councils, Lancaster University, Charities. Further Information:
www.lancs.ac.uk/shm/
Doctor of Medicine (MD)
Director of Studies: Dr Paul McKean. Duration: 24 months full-time. Entry Requirements: Applicants must (i) hold a medical or dental qualification which is recognised by the General Medical/Dental Council for the United Kingdom, (ii) must have held this qualification for at least three years by the date of submission, and (iii) must be employed during their period of registration in appropriate clinical or scientific work in hospitals or institutions associated with the university, within the local NHS region. Assessment: Original research and thesis. IELTS: 6.5 Funding: See page 213. Further Information:
www.lancs.ac.uk/shm/
RESEARCH AREAS Research in the Division spans social, biostatistical/ epidemiological and biomedical models of inquiry, much of this undertaken in collaboration with other Divisions in the School, other Lancaster Departments and a range of national and international research partners.
Within the social science area, research interests include social studies of science and technology in clinical practice, disaster and recovery studies, medical education,
professionalism in medicine, health policy and politics, and the use of qualitative methods in health research (Prof Anne Garden, Dr Maggie Mort, Dr Dawn Goodwin). Recent projects include studies of complexity, risk and resilience in animal disease strategies, the health and social consequences of the 2001 UK foot-and-mouth epidemic (acquired and archived by ESRC as a “classic study”), understanding expertise in anaesthesia and the social construction of evaluation in telemedicine and tele- health care.
Current biostatistical and epidemiological research topics include spatial and longitudinal data analysis, environmental and tropical disease epidemiology (Prof Peter Diggle, Dr Tom Keegan, Mr Barry Rowlingson, Dr Ivonne Solis-Trapala, Dr Tom Fanshawe). Recent projects include risk of childhood cancer from living near high voltage power lines and effects on soldiers of taking part in chemical weapons tests; disease risk mapping for the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC), forecasting and control strategies for meningitis epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa, exposure measurement and modelling for studies of environmental determinants of disease, early detection of incipient kidney failure in primary care patients, and the integration of statistical models with geographical information systems for real- time epidemiological applications.
In the medical sciences, current areas of research include parasitology, DNA damage and repair, cellular and immuno-pathology of the materno-fetal interaction, immunology of reproduction and musculo-skeletal disease (Prof John Goodacre, Prof Colin Ockleford, Dr Gill Vince, Dr Tim Doubell, Dr Karen Grant, Dr Howard Lindsay). Recent projects include study of development of the costamere in dystrophic muscle, novel drug targets for treatment of medically important protozoan parasites, advances in understanding the important role of the innate immune system’s CD56- positive NK cells in recurrent miscarriage and pathology of pre-eclampsia, and how childhood diseases affect auditory brain development.
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