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Monday, November 9, 2009

UK: 2010 EPSRC Industrial CASE PhD Position at Aston University

Overview

Applications are invited for a three year PhD position, supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to be undertaken at Aston University. The successful applicant will join an established group working on information retrieval methodologies for evidence-based medicine. The studentship is offered in collaboration with the Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

The position is available to start in January 2010 (subject to negotiation)

Financial Support

Will be provided to Home/EU students (subject to eligibility) at the standard EPSRC rate £13,200 with the corresponding standard EPSRC increases in subsequent years plus a £3,000 per year award from the collaborating company.

Background of the Project

Background: Physicians should be able to apply evidence gained from scientific research to manage patients as part of clinical practice. However, many factors complicate retrieval of evidence and repositories that could be leveraged for point of care support are currently vastly underexploited.

Aims: We propose a framework for indexing, retrieving and presenting evidence-based documents from online medical literature. The research will be conducted in the mental health domain and the resulting framework will be integrated with GRiST, a mental health risk assessment tool developed by Dr Chris Buckingham at Aston University. The resulting application will undergo a live clinical trial at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital. The main objectives of the work program are to:


•Address the problem of coarsely grained indexing schemes and to develop a methodology for applying more fine-grained and patient-specific descriptors to evidence-based documents.
•Develop an enhanced querying mechanism for evidence-based documents that uses the patient-specific concepts and vector-based methodologies from information retrieval.
•Implement a presentation model that abstracts relevant documents in a manner for enhanced visualization at the point of care.
•Fully integrate the framework with the GRiST tool for mental health risk screening and to perform an evaluation of the prototype framework at a live participating clinical site


Outcomes: The outcome will be a clinical decision support system that can be used at the point of care to provide patient-specific evidence-based recommendations, as patients are diagnosed and treated. The research will help develop innovative ways of implementing evidence-based medicine in practice, making otherwise inaccessible information readily available through IT in a novel way.

Candidate Specification

Graduate with minimum British Bachelor Honours 2.1 class degree or equivalent in a computer-science related subject. Preferred skills include knowledge/experience of information retrieval and ontological engineering. Applicants should fulfil the eligibility criteria for EPSRC funding through UK nationality and/or residency status (see http:www.epsrc.ac.uk) but the main criteria are that the person must be from the European Union and resident in the UK for at least three years).

Application deadline: December 4th 2009.

For informal enquiries, contact:

Dympna O’Sullivan
Lecturer in Computer Science
email: d.m.osullivan@aston.ac.uk
Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK.

To Apply:

Application forms, reference forms and details of entry requirements, including English language are available at http://www1.aston.ac.uk/eas/research/prospective-students/


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