PhD studentships

The ACRC is offering intensive 48-month, structured thematic programmes of PhDs with Integrated Study in Advanced Care. We currently have thirteen studentships running per year.

Current PhD Studentships

The ACRC Academy will be based at the Biocubes, Little France.

Applications for some of the PhD studentships have re-opened. In order to fill the few remaining places we are currently running a rolling recruitment process, with project adverts staying posted until recruitment is complete. Applications received from 8 May 2021 onwards will be reviewed on a twice weekly basis

Application forms are now available here: View Website

It is essential to read the the How to Apply section of our website before you apply: View Website

Applications for the following year will open in autumn. Thank you for your interest.

We are currently advertising the following positions

Title	Supervisor(s)	Contact email
Causal data-driven insight and prediction in care	Professor Sotirios Tsaftaris, Professor Ewen Harrison	S.Tsaftaris@ed.ac.uk ewen.harrison@ed.ac.uk
A Sense of Frailty	Professor Ian Underwood	Ian.Underwood@ed.ac.uk
Implementation of a digital information resource for homeless people in Scotland	Professor Stewart Mercer	Stewart.Mercer@ed.ac.uk
Evaluation of social prescribing for people in later life	Professor Stewart Mercer	Stewart.Mercer@ed.ac.uk
Light bulb moments in the mind’s eye: take a closer look	Professor Baljean Dhillon	Baljean.Dhillon@ed.ac.uk
What can data tell us about our frailty?	Dr Sohan Seth	Sohan.Seth@ed.ac.uk
An investigation into socially acceptable long term anonymous video monitoring for assessment of behaviour changes in ageing adults	Professor Robert Fisher	rbf@ed.ac.uk
Building explainable user models of older adults from data	Dr Jacques Fleuriot	Jacques.Fleuriot@ed.ac.uk
Portable urinary incontinence management device	Dr Srinjoy Mitra	Srinjoy.Mitra@ed.ac.uk
Visualising complex care pathways in later life	Dr Benjamin Bach	bbach@exseed.ed.ac.uk
Activity-Based Enhancement of Quality of Life at Work for Formal Carers	Dr Nigel Goddard	Nigel.Goddard@ed.ac.uk

The following projects are not currently available, but offer an illustration of the other projects offered through the ACRC Academy.

Title	Supervisor(s)	Contact email
Frailty and its impact on older people's views about 'quality of life' and 'quantity of life'	Professor Gillian Mead; Professor Heather Wilkinson	Gillian.E.Mead@ed.ac.uk
How can the ACRC and VOICE meaningfully involve people from diverse communities, and address inequalities?	Professor Heather Wilkinson; Professor Lynne Corner (Director of VOICE, Newcastle University). Please contact Dr Sue Lewis.	S.J.Lewis@ed.ac.uk
Neighbourhood and health in later life: a mixed methods study	Dr Sue Lewis; Dr Alan Marshall	s.j.lewis@ed.ac.uk
Understanding care transitions in remote communities	Professor Linda McKie - Please contact Dr Sue Lewis	S.J.Lewis@ed.ac.uk
Identifying and resolving the ethical challenges of emergent new technologies (e.g. AI/robotics) for supporting elderly people in the community	Professor Stephen Osborne	Stephen.Osborne@ed.ac.uk
Allostatic load in later life: How does neighbourhood 'get under the skin'?	Dr Alan Marshall	Alan.Marshall@ed.ac.uk
Improving prediction of ageing outcomes by inegrating social, environmental, and genetic information	Dr Michelle Luciano	michelle.luciano@ed.ac.uk
Socially Assistive Robot Support to aid recovery after critical illness	Dr Susan Shenkin	Susan.Shenkin@ed.ac.uk
What happens next? An exploration of trajectories and decision making after hospital discharge	Dr Sarah Rhynas	Sarah.Rhynas@ed.ac.uk
Digital connections: Exploring the role of community-led digital connection in combatting isolation among rural elderly populations	Dr Amy Chandler	a.chandler@ed.ac.uk
Inclusive ‘Usual Care’ Pathways for BAME Older People: Co-producing a conceptualising framework	Dr George Palattiyil	g.palattiyil@ed.ac.uk
Automatic Affective Behaviour Monitoring through speech while preserving user’s privacy	Dr Saturnino Luz	S.Luz@ed.ac.uk
The right to decide? Supported decision-making in care transitions with older adults who lack capacity.	Dr Pearse McCusker	pearse.mccusker@ed.ac.uk
Comprehending and changing perceptions of elderly care using AI and citizen science	Dr Stella Chan; Dr Kobi Gal	kgal@inf.ed.ac.uk
Co-creating “Narratives of Usefulness”: advancing self-care through empathy-oriented digital device interventions with an aging population	Arno Verhoeven	a.verhoeven@ed.ac.uk
Music and the ageing brain: can personalised music provision support communication skills and quality of life?	Dr Tom Russ	T.C.Russ@ed.ac.uk
Independence in the “Elder Experience”	Dr Robin Williams	R.Williams@ed.ac.uk

This article was published on 7 May, 2021

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PhD studentships

Current PhD Studentships

The ACRC Academy will be based at the Biocubes, Little France.

Applications for the following year will open in autumn. Thank you for your interest.