The LIGHT PhD Programme 2021. PhD students will be integral to the conduct of our research and we will host five PhD studentships, one within each of our four African partner countries (Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda) and one within our Research Uptake team based at AFIDEP in Nairobi, Kenya or Lilongwe, Malawi.
We will offer five, full-time, four-year studentships. Available funding will include programme fees at the off-site student rate, contribution to research support costs and stipend.
Available funding will include programme fees at the off-site student rate, contribution to research support costs and stipend. Stipends will be in alignment with the standard allocation made by each host institute.
For further information, please contact the Primary Investigator at the institution to which you’re applying (Eliya Zulu(link sends e-mail)/AFIDEP; Bruce Kirenga(link sends e-mail)/MLI ; Peter MacPherson(link sends e-mail)/MLW ;(link sends e-mail)Jeremiah Chakaya(link sends e-mail)/ReSok; John Bimba(link sends e-mail)/ZRC ).
PhD applicants will be required to have at least a basic right to work in the host country and will need to provide evidence of this prior to commencement of the studentship.
The call for applications for the LIGHT consortium PhD studentships is now OPEN
Recruitment timeline:
- Closing date: 10th December 2020
- Shortlisting: Week commencing 11th January 2021
- Interviews: Week commencing 25th January 2021
- Notification date: Week commencing 1st February 2021
- Start date: May 2021
The LIGHT PhD Programme 2021 Application Process
This studentship will be in collaboration with the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine who will be the awarding body of the PhD. All applications must be submitted on the LSTM online system via MyLSTM(link is external). These notes are intended to assist you in completing your LIGHT Consortium PhD application form online as efficiently as possible.
Please read through these notes carefully before beginning your application and ensure that you complete all relevant sections of the application form in full.
There are 5 PhD opportunities. Each studentship will work on one of the following themes:
- Research Uptake to maximise research impact at the African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP) in Nairobi, Kenya or Lilongwe, Malawi.
- Theory driven development of a contextualised and targeted active TB case finding for the youth in Kenya based at the Respiratory Society of Kenya (ReSoK) in Nairobi
- Modelling interventions to improve engagement of young adults and men in tuberculosis active case finding in high HIV prevalence settings based at the Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust (MLW) in Blantyre, Malawi
- Development of gender sensitive TB screening interventions for community settings in Uganda and Nigeria based at the Zankli Research Centre (ZRC) in Abuja, Nigeria
- Evaluation of the feasibility, affordability, acceptability and effectiveness of a gender transformative TB screening interventions in formal health systems in Uganda and Nigeria based at the Makerere Lung Institute (MLI) in Kampala, UUganda.
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