Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, England invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Exploring the role of integrated working between Memory Assessment Services (MAS) and Primary Care to improve diagnostic and post diagnostic outcomes
Summary of PhD Program:
Diagnosis for dementia typically occurs in specialist Memory Assessment Services (MAS). However, primary care plays a significant role in screening, identification, and referrals to MAS, as well as providing post-diagnostic support for people with a diagnosis of dementia. The role of primary care practice has long been recognised as an important part of the diagnostic and post diagnostic pathway. Despite this, collaboration between MAS and primary care can be limited and lack integration. Historically, MAS have reported issues such as inappropriate referrals contributing to delays in diagnosis.
Application Deadline: 22 January 2025
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Exploring the feasibility of using annual dementia reviews to support cancer detection and management
Summary of PhD Program:
At least 1 in 13 people aged 75+ who have dementia also have cancer. People with dementia experience suboptimal routes to cancer diagnosis. They are diagnosed with later stage cancers, are more likely to present with cancer as an emergency and to be diagnosed by chance. Suboptimal diagnostic routes lead to worse outcomes including poorer symptom management and quality of life. In England, all routine cancer screening programmes cease at age 74, meaning there is a reliance on independent symptom identification followed by active help-seeking for cancer assessment.
Application Deadline: 22 January 2025
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Exploring pathways for brain health for people from marginalised communities in Memory Assessment Services
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD will aim to understand the experience of people from marginalised communities who attend MAS with subjective cognitive complaints, but do not meet the threshold for a diagnosis of dementia. The project will explore and document their experience of the MAS, whether they have unmet needs that underlie their subjective cognitive complaints (Brain Health profile), and whether these needs have or could have been met by the service itself or onward referrals. The findings will be used to make recommendations for diagnostic and therapeutic pathways that will meet the needs of this population with consideration of service development implications and constraints.
