Apply for the NIHR MSc Studentships in Medical Statistics. Four studentships are available for the 2019-20 academic year. These studentships are funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), and have been made available with the aim of building research capacity in medical statistics; they will be targeted towards students who are planning to go on to work in areas of benefit to the National Health Service.
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is renowned for its research, postgraduate studies and continuing education in public and global health.
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The School has an international presence and collaborative ethos and is uniquely placed to help shape health policy and translate research findings into tangible impact. They have 3,000 staff and more than 4,000 students in over 100 countries, all working with a collective purpose to improve health worldwide.
Their mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.
Founded in 1899 at the London Docks, LSHTM is now based in Bloomsbury, where it has two main sites at Keppel Street and Tavistock Place. Today, our staff, students and alumni work in government, academia, international agencies and health services across the world.
The school has 3,000 staff working in over 100 countries, including at two MRC Units in The Gambia and Uganda which joined LSHTM in February 2018. Their outstanding, diverse and committed staff make an impact where it is most needed, deploying research in real time in response to crises, developing innovative programmes for major health threats, or training the next generations of public and global health leaders and researchers. The School has more than 20,000 alumni in over 180 countries working in government, academia, international agencies and health services.
Location:
United KingdomBenefits
- Each studentship provides tuition fees at the Home/EU fee rate
- A stipend (a tax-free living allowance).
Eligibilities
- Funds paid to the award recipient once the award has been terminated, or paid in error, or inappropriately, will be reclaimed.
- The award recipient must understand that the giving of any false information or withholding of relevant information may lead to the termination of any allowance granted and the institution of proceedings for the recovery of any amounts paid by the School.
- Award recipients agree to write a 250-word student profile for use in School publications and on the website. They also give consent to the School (and its studentship partner/s for this award only) to announce their name and funding award and to use photographic images of the award recipient/s in their publications and on the website.
- For more information please visit the official link.
Application Process
- Application Deadlines:
- First deadline: midnight (BST) Sunday 14 April 2019.
- Second deadline: midnight (BST) Thursday 30 May 2019.
- To be considered for this funding, you must submit an MSc online application for MSc in Medical Statistics, along with all necessary supporting documentation, by the funding application deadline. There is no separate scholarship application process – all eligible candidates will be considered for this funding.
- For scholarship purposes, applications submitted without all the necessary supporting documents are considered incomplete. Any applications that do not have all the necessary supporting documents at the scholarship deadline will be considered incomplete and therefore ineligible for this funding.
- There will be two deadlines for applications – two studentships will be awarded in April, and two in June. Early application is recommended. Unsuccessful applicants for the April award will automatically be reconsidered for the June award.
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- The competition for these studentships is high, and applicants are strongly encouraged to seek alternative funding should their application be unsuccessful.
Application Deadline: May 30, 2019
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