全奖｜英国华威大学招收博士生

职位信息

The Midlands Graduate School is an accredited Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP). One of 15 such partnerships in the UK, the Midlands Graduate School is a collaboration between the Universities of Warwick, Birmingham, Nottingham, Aston Leicester, Loughborough, De Montfort and Nottingham Trent.

We are now inviting applications for an ESRC Strategic Joint Studentship between the University of Warwick (where the student will be registered) and the University of Birmingham, commencing in October 2025.

This is an exciting opportunity for a quantitative researcher to learn cutting edge research skills, working on a large healthcare database and impacting national policy.

National screening programmes are population-based. However, women from more socially deprived backgrounds are less likely to attend breast screening (Taylor-Phillips, JMS, 2013) and black women are more likely to be diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer when treatment is less successful (Fry, BMJ Open, 2023).

Despite our knowledge of these health inequalities in breast screening, we know very little about how ethnicity and socioeconomic status affect screening effectiveness.

his PhD provides a unique opportunity to work on the ATHENA-M dataset – which links routine breast screening records to the cancer registry, national mortality data and the Index of Multiple Deprivation – allowing us look at long-term outcomes following screening. The project will have three main objectives:

Exploring the quality of the data on ethnicity and socioeconomic status and providing descriptive characteristics of the women in the dataset.

Investigating：

1) the types of cancer detected by socioeconomic status and ethnicity, including by grade, stage and other prognostic indices, and

2) the treatment that they received in the first year after diagnosis stratified by cancer type.

Looking at the association between ethnicity/socio-economic status and screening intervention effectiveness. To perform this analysis, the student will use various modelling approaches (including time to event analysis) and causal inference methods, as appropriate.

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO508/phd-studentship-quantitative-analysis-of-a-routine-breast-screening-dataset-investigating-how-the-effectiveness-of-and-outcomes-from-breast-cancer-screening-differ-by-population-subgroup