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If you submitted a complete application (with 2 references) to at least one of our projects (due 19 April 2024), please review the shortlisting and interviews dates.
Please note, these may change. Due to the high volume of applications, not all supervisory teams may be able to provide feedback on your application if you are not shortlisted or unsuccessful, post-interview.
| First Supervisor |
Project Title |
Interview Shortlisting Date | Interview Date | |
| Dr Tom Clemens | pgawards@ed.ac.uk |
A longitudinal study of changes in tobacco and alcohol retail availability and maternal health behaviours and birth outcomes |
26-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
| Professor Katie Boyle | katie.boyle@strath.ac.uk | Addressing systemic and clustered injustice in the realisation of the right to independent living in Scotland | 24-Apr-24 | 10-May-24 |
| Dr Fernando Fernandes | f.l.fernandes@dundee.ac.uk | An analysis of power and complexity within community development through the lens of Hot Chocolate Trust: how youth and community workers work with the expertise of communities in striving to impact on social inequalities. | 26-Apr-24 | 9 or 10 May 2024 |
| Dr Fadhila Mazanderani | pgawards@ed.ac.uk |
Care and Complaint: Exploring Changing Technologies of Feedback and Complaint in the Scottish NHS | 26-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
| Professor Deirdre Shaw | deirdre.shaw@glasgow.ac.uk | Diet Transition: Understanding the Effectiveness of Community Organisations in Supporting Change | 26-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
| Dr Francesca Fiori | francesca.fiori@strath.ac.uk | Housing injustice and children’s outcomes: how does growing up in rented accommodation affect children’s health, wellbeing and cognitive development? | 26-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
| Dr Kim McKee | kim.mckee@stir.ac.uk | Housing precarity in the Scottish private rented sector: disabled peoples’, their families, and carers’ experiences of private renting | 01-May-24 | 16-May-24 |
| Dr Amy Irwin | a.irwin@abdn.ac.uk | Is double checking twice as safe? Investigating the efficacy of peer-checking in the nuclear industry. | 29-Apr-24 | 06-May-24 |
| Dr Zoe Russell | pgawards@ed.ac.uk |
Just and Sustainable Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Behaviour Change in the Cairngorms National Park | 22-Apr-24 | 06-May-24 |
| Dr Sharada Davidson | sharada.n.davidson@strath.ac.uk | Missing but not Forgotten: Modelling New Developments in the Global Economy Using Data with Missing Values | 26-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
| Dr Anastasia Klimovich-Gray | anastasia.klimovich-gray@abdn.ac.uk | Neuro-cognitive mechanisms of goal-oriented reading | 22-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
| Dr Matthew Thomas | matthew.thomas@glasgow.ac.uk | Podcasts as Pedagogy: Where art, entertainment, and education converge on sustainability and climate change | 29-Apr-24 | 07-May-24 |
| Dr Megan Crawford | megan.crawford@strath.ac.uk | Providing access to digital sleep interventions through public libraries | 30-Apr-24 | 08-May-24 |
| Professor Frank Pollick | frank.pollick@glasgow.ac.uk | Social Touch in Human-Robot Physical Interactions | 26-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
| Dr Juliane Kloess | pgawards@ed.ac.uk |
The development of a risk assessment tool for under 18-year-olds who display harmful sexual behaviour, both offline and online | 26-Apr-24 | 07-May-24 |
| Professor Simon Halliday | simon.halliday@strath.ac.uk | Time, Public Perceptions of Procedural Fairness, and Legal Theory | 23-Apr-24 | 10-May-24 |
| Dr Fiona Crawford | fiona.crawford.2@glasgow.ac.uk | Transport justice and sustainability implications of requirements and benefits in job advertisements | 25-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
| Dr Ben Matthews | ben.matthews@stir.ac.uk | Understanding the health and wellbeing of people involved with community justice in Scotland | 30-Apr-24 | w/c 13 May 2024 |
| Professor Ailsa Henderson | pgawards@ed.ac.uk |
Understanding the Multi-level Voter: Evidence from the Scottish Election Study | 26-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
| Dr Elke Heins | pgawards@ed.ac.uk |
Varieties of CIAG: Tailoring careers services to adult users with diverse needs | 26-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
| Dr Penny Woolnough | p.woolnough@abertay.ac.uk | When an adult with learning disability goes missing: a mixed methods study to inform prevention and response | 01-May-24 | 14-May-24 |
| Dr Despina Alexiadou | despina.alexiadou@strath.ac.uk | Why so few working-class women? A comparative case of British and Scottish Elections | 01-May-24 | 09-May-24 |
A key public health issue in Scotland is the high and rising number of alcohol related hospitalisations and deaths. Alcohol consumption and its associated harms are strongly socially patterned, making it essential to accurately estimate changes in consumption and harms across subgroups to understand the effects of policy changes, such as the 50p minimum unit price (MUP) for alcohol introduced in Scotland in 2018.
This research aims to develop an innovative framework that integrates health-seeking behaviour—the actions individuals take when they perceive a health problem, grounded in behavioural theories, into simulation models used for health systems management. Simulation models are powerful tools for supporting decision-making, allowing for the design, construction, and manipulation of a representation (i.e. a model) of real-world systems to analyse their dynamic behaviours.
This PhD will explore the alterity and transformative potential of democratic finance – Community Bonds and Community Shares – in Scotland. This (relatively) new form of finance creates citizen investors by harnessing, and investing, the financial resources of local communities into democratically governed social and/or community enterprises to address local challenges.
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