Working Pattern: Full or Part Time
Contract: Funded PhD Project (Home & International Students)
Duration: 3 years
Closing Date: Thursday, 30 October 2025
As part of Policy Modelling for Health, the Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis (CeMPA) at the Institute for Economic and Social Research (ISER), University of Essex is opening a 3-year fully funded PhD studentship.
The successful candidate will work under the supervision of CeMPA Director Prof. Matteo Richiardi, on the intersection of health and economic inequalities and the role of policies. He or she will have the freedom to choose research areas and topics of interest within the scope of the research programme, working in close collaboration with the researchers and model developers at CeMPA as well as the HealthMod team at large. Prerequisites are an interest in computational modelling and a background in Economics, Public Health, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or computational Life Sciences. Knowledge of Java or other generic programming languages (such as Python, R, Julia) is desirable, although a proved attitude to learning computational skills would also be accepted.
Deadline 30 October 2025
