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Research Studentship at Institute for Primary Care & Health Sciences Research, UK

/ May 10, 2011 Leave a Comment

Research studentships are offered to students wishing to undertake a PhD on a full-time basis.  All studentships are highly competitive and you should ensure (and demonstrate) that there is a good match between your own qualifications and interests and those being sought for the particular studentship. The aim is to evaluate the presence of psychological distress and chronic pain in this patient group and the influence of these factors on how patients respond to treatments (joint injections, physiotherapy, analgesics, surgery etc) given within the clinic over time.
Eligibility: Good (2:1 or above) first degree in a science/maths, psychology or health-related discipline (including skills in literacy and numeracy). A Masters degree in a relevant discipline is highly desirable. Experience in a health-related discipline and/or psychology useful, but not essential.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 20 May 2011

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International PhD Scholarship in the School of Psychology, University of Central Lancashire, UK: Psychological Effects of Rape on Male Survivors

/ May 8, 2011 Leave a Comment

Applications are invited for a full-time scholarship available in the School of Psychology. The scholarship is tenable for up to 3 years for a PhD (via MPhil route) [subject to satisfactory progress] and is open to international applicants only. UK/EU applicants are not eligible to apply. The scholarship will provide £15000 towards the cost of the International tuition fee over 3 years.
The aim of this PhD project is to build on previous work by investigating the psychological effects of rape on men recruited from a range of settings, such as survivor’s Internet support groups. The first phase of this project will utilise a range of qualitative and quantitative psychological measures to assess whether issues such as social support, psychological intervention, and individual differences can predict which men suffer the most detrimental psychological effects after rape. A particular aim of this phase will assess how victim self-blame hampers recovery, and factors that may influence to what extent the victim blames himself after rape. Such findings inform treatment services on how best to offer help to survivors. Later phases of this project might compare male victim responses with those of female victims; such work, somewhat surprisingly, is lacking, yet is timely and very publishable. Investigating male rape from an international perspective would also be extremely publishable.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 13 May 2011

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2011-2012 Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Psychology and Health Services Research at the University of Sheffield, UK

/ May 4, 2011 Leave a Comment

Telehealth has proven beneficial to some patients but others have declined it or quickly abandoned it. In part, this is due to a failure to consider patients´ beliefs. To address this, and move towards being able to predict who will receive benefit, a Telehealth Acceptance Model (ThAM) needs to be established and validated. As a starting point, currently available models such as the Technology Acceptance Model or Innovation Acceptance Model, which predict users´ acceptance of new information technologies will need to be investigated alongside models that have been shown to be predictive of health behaviour (e.g., Theory of Planned Behaviour). It is believed that a validated ThAM will aid telehealth deployment and lead to the development of personalised telehealth solutions for the benefit of a larger percentage of the population. You will work alongside major regional deployments, thus giving access to a large number of people and different contexts.
This studentship needs to achieve four key tasks:
1.      Systematic review of acceptance in telehealth from the end user (patient) perspective
2.      Interview end users to validate the findings of the systematic review
3.      Develop the ThAM
4.      Survey end users over a 12-month period in a panel study to validate the ThAM

Scholarship Application Deadline: 4 May 2011

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