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PhD Studentship (ESRC South Coast DTP) - Using geostatistical modelling to explore smoking cessatio

Employer
Global Academy Jobs
Location
United Kingdom
Closing date
Jan 31, 2018

Job Details

A fully funded studentship awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP) commencing in 2018/19 Academic Year.

 

Supervisory Team:

Professor Graham Moon (Geography, Lead Supervisor) (g.moon@soton.ac.uk), Professor Andy Tatem (Geography), Professor Liz Twigg (University of Portsmouth). 

This project will explore smoking cessation on a global scale, developing high resolution estimates of cessation rates for the Global South. The candidate will work with data from the USAID-funded Demographic and Health Surveys program, developing a personal research program using advanced quantitative methods that will provide new insights on the geography of smoking cessation. Linking with the WorldPop research programme and experts in the geography of smoking, the project will investigate how individual, regional and national factors impact on cessation across the Global South and uncover how the sub-national geographies of smoking cessation are changing.

 

Specific research questions:

  • To what extent can routine data offer timely, robust and consistent insight on smoking cessation in the Global South?
  • What regularities underpin small area variations in smoking cessation?
  • How do these variations relate to standard models of the smoking transition?

 

Background and rationale: The standard model of the smoking transition sees the Global South as a battleground where levels of smoking remain high or even rising among men but low among women (Lopez 1994). This model and recent assessments (Ng et al 2014) focus heavily on smoking prevalence and at the national scale. This proposal is motivated by the need focus at a more localised geographical scale and explore nuances within smoking behaviour (Barnett et al 2016). Smoking behaviour is seldom uniform across a nation and overall prevalences can mask important variations, for example in quitting behaviour. Effective tobacco control measures demand small area data and there is a specific need in the Global South where building on existing cessation rates may be an important counter tactic to the marketing of tobacco products by Big Tobacco.

 

Funding

South Coast DTP Funding provides an annual maintenance grant (tax free) of £14553 (2017/18 RCUK rate), plus payment of all programme fees.  Other funding available for SCDTP funded students can be found on the SCDTP website (southcoastdtp.ac.uk).

Funding is provided for 3 years full-time PhD study (pro-rata for part-time students).  Applications for 1+3 funding for students completing a Master's year prior to the commencement of PhD study are also welcome (details available at southcoastdtp.ac.uk).

 

Application Procedure

The closing date and time for applications is 11.59pm 31st January 2018.  

For further information about this project, please contact the lead supervisor detailed above.  For more information about the SCDTP, please visit the SCDTP website or contact us at scdtp@soton.ac.uk

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