PhD Opportunity – Understanding the causes and consequences of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in UK Biobank

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Project background: UK Biobank is a uniquely large and well characterised prospective cohort study of ~500,000 adults in middle-age living in the UK. The study now has around 15 years of follow-up available and there is forthcoming linkage of all participants in the cohort to primary care data. This presents a unique opportunity to investigate the causes and consequences of many less common diseases (such as aortic aneurysms), and common diseases diagnosed in primary care (such as type 2 diabetes and dementia).

This flexible project presents an opportunity to the interested student to help design their own portfolio of data-driven work, and to be more widely involved in our highly successful UK Biobank working group which has led several seminal publications on the cohort 1-5. With experienced supervisors, the student can develop the area of interest and identify aims of interested based on literature review, and using this world-class data set and existing resources we have developed.

Training outcomes:

1. Experience in the use of medical statistics, including further training in medical statistics if required.
2. Proficiency in the use of statistical software for medical statistics.
3. Conduct of systematic reviews of the literature.
4. Knowledge and experience of the structure of electronic health care records in the UK.

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