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Funding scale: Full Funding
Funding
- Full tuition fees and stipend at the UKRI rate for 3.5 years.
Eligibility
- Applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria: Applicants must hold or be predicted a First or a good 2:1 undergraduate degree in the social sciences, or have relevant comparable experience.
- Applicants can have a Masters degree, however this is not a requirement.
About the provider
- Evidence indicates that infants born to women who use opioids are twelve times more likely to be removed by court order at birth than demographically similar peers—a disparity that has widened over the past 15 years.
Funding structure
- Full tuition fees and stipend at the UKRI rate for 3.5 years.
How to apply
- Additional material needed in application: A personal statement (no more than one A4 page) indicating why you want to pursue a PhD in the area of substance use and/or epidemiology and within the topic of care journeys and developmental outcomes of children with prenatal opioid exposure If shortlisted for interview.
- If invited to interview you will be asked to prepared a 5 minute presentation on why this research is important, the benefits of using linked health and social work records to address the research questions, key challenges that you anticipate with this research, and how your previous research experience could contribute to the success of this project.
Selection criteria
Timeline
- References are due 26 March 2026, 5 pm GMT: For more information contact: team@sgsss.ac.uk
Heads up
Dates can shift each year. The deadline above is what we last verified. Always confirm on the provider's own page before you start your application.
