PhD Studentship in Health Economics

Institute of Medical & Social Care Research Centre Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation

Applications are invited for a full-time PhD studentship, funded by Tenovus – a leading UK Cancer Charity. The studentship is based at the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation at Bangor University under the supervision of Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Professor of Health Economics.

This PhD project will explore perspectives of women with gynaecological cancer and their informal carers on follow up after treatment for gynaecological cancer and use a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to elicit their preferences by exploring how they value different attributes of gynaecological cancer follow up care services.

The student will be supported by a multidisciplinary supervisory/advisory team including a health economist, an oncologist, a general practitioner, a statistician and a gynaecologist. This will provide an exciting opportunity to a student seeking a stepping stone into a career in health economics whilst yielding valuable, methodological outcomes that could facilitate and contribute to the design and the development of a future multi-centred randomised controlled trial study of gynaecological cancer follow-up services to those leading and collaborating in cancer care in Wales and the UK.

The closing date for applications is Friday 31st May 2013. The successful applicant is expected to commence their studies on 1st October 2013 or, at the latest, by the start of January 2014.

Further details about the studentship are available from the IMSCaR website. Further details about the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation and North Wales are available at http://www.bangor.ac.uk/healtheconomics.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to contact Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, in the first instance, by email on r.t.edwards@bangor.ac.uk or by telephone on +44 (0) 1248 383712.