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  • Qualification

    PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

  • Location

    The University of Manchester

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    01-SEP-25

  • Duration

    3 years

Course summary

Our PhD/MPhil Biostatistics programme enables you to undertake a research project that will improve understanding of Biostatistics. Underpinning all our work in collaborative clinical and healthcare research is a vibrant programme of methodological research. Our main research themes within biostatistics investigate design and analysis of both randomised trials and epidemiological studies. These include inference from large e-health datasets and statistical modelling of high-dimensional genomic/biomarker data and clustered or correlated outcomes.In particular, our research covers:Modern statistical approaches to causal inferenceThe design and analysis of efficient and adaptive randomised controlled trialsMeta-analysisInference from large e-health datasets such as CPRD and the HFEAApplications of complex statistical modelling, including the use of Bayesian methods, to high-dimensional genomic/biomarker data, neuroscience and clustered or correlated outcomes arising in assisted reproduction researchComputationally intensive statistical methodsGenetic epidemiologyPrediction/prognostic modelling

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£ 27,000per year

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University information

University of Manchester

  • University League Table

    28th

  • Campus address

    The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, England

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    19th out of 91 1

    13th out of 65

  • Entry standards

    / Max 218
    170 78%

    17th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    79.0 79%

    33rd

    17
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    2.96 74%

    81st

  • Entry standards

    / Max 244
    171 70%

    19th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    86.0 86%

    17th

    5
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    2.99 75%

    55th

    15

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