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As one of the only universities in the world with an accredited, all-online PhD in Clinical Research, University of Jamestown helps you advance in the field of your choice—without having to pause your career. In this program, you will master the skills necessary to conduct clinical trials, analyze research, and ensure the safety and efficacy of products, medication and information provided to the global society.

Earning your terminal degree in a broadly applicable program like Clinical Research means you can apply your knowledge to a range of disciplines, including government, higher education, healthcare, private industry, and beyond. You will not only learn how to critically analyze the literature and interpret evidence, but to design your own rigorous and ethical research projects—all while creating a repeatable and sophisticated methodology appropriate for dissemination at the national level.

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Between September 7 and July 31 of a calendar year, applicants can use the Allied Health Common Application System (AHCAS) to submit their application to the University of Jamestown Ph.D. in Clinical Research program. The requirements for admission are:

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The University of Johannesburg (UJ) celebrated a landmark moment on Wednesday, July 24, 2024, by conferring an honorary doctorate upon Pitso Mosimane, one of South Africa’s most decorated football coaches. This occasion, part of UJ’s winter graduation season, highlighted Mosimane’s exceptional contributions to the sport and his steadfast commitment to excellence and innovation.

The significance of this honorary doctorate lies in its recognition of an individual’s extraordinary achievements beyond the academic realm. UJ’s decision to bestow this honour upon Mosimane highlights his influential role in elevating South African football and his dedication to nurturing young talent.

The conferral ceremony was attended by dignitaries and luminaries from various sectors, including, among others, Danny Jordaan, President of the South African Football Association (SAFA) and Jomo Sono, a prominent football administrator and businessman. Friends and family of Mosimane also graced the occasion.

Pitso Mosimane, born in Kagiso, Gauteng Province, has earned international acclaim as a football coach. His professional journey began in 1982 as a midfielder for Jomo Cosmos Football Club. Throughout his playing career, he represented Mamelodi Sundowns, Orlando Pirates, and clubs in Greece, Belgium, and Qatar. Mosimane proudly wore the Bafana Bafana jersey during the 1993/1994 season.

In 1995, Mosimane transitioned to coaching, making an indelible mark. He has managed teams such as Sundowns, SuperSport United, Bafana Bafana, and Al Ahly SC in Saudi Arabia. In 2022, he established the Pitso Mosimane Soccer Schools, dedicated to developing young soccer talent across Africa.

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He emphasised the transformative power of football in his life and career: “Growing up with a humble background, I never imagined that football would open the doors it has for me. Football has been my passport to the world, providing opportunities that I could have only dreamed of.”

Mosimane also spoke about the broader impact of education: “As I reflect on my journey, I realise that education has played a crucial role in shaping my career and life. Education in sport is not just about physical training; it is about developing discipline, strategic thinking, and leadership. These are qualities that transcend the football field and are essential in every aspect of life.”

Mosimane expressed his gratitude to various individuals and organisations that supported his journey, including the South African Football Association (SAFA) and its presidents, both current and former, like Kirsten Nematandani and Dr Molefi Olifant. He also acknowledged the Premier Soccer League (PSL) and its chairman, along with mentors like Jomo Sono and the late Stanley “Screamer” Tshabalala.

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Tommy botch wins the neukom institute outstanding graduate research in computational science second prize, posted on august 01, 2024 by lisa d. aubrey.

Tommy Botch, a PBS graduate student in Assistant Professor Emily Finn's lab, was awarded second prize for Outstanding Graduate Research in Computational Science by the Neukom Institute.

In a breif statement about his winning project, Tommy writes, "Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used across disciplines and, within the field of cognitive psychology and neuroscience, are commonly suggested as substitutes for human behavior. However, humans learn language primarily through a spoken modality while LLMs are often trained solely on written text. Our work evaluates how stimulus poverty – here, the removal of auditory information – impacts language processing and prediction within humans and LLMs. We found that human predictions of spoken language were more accurate and more closely aligned with human brain activity than both human predictions of written text and LLM predictions. Together, these results suggest that human predictions of written text represent a theoretical ceiling on what LLMs can achieve in both behavior and representation."

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The ‘PhD influencers’ logging lab life on TikTok and Instagram

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Left to right: Ria Chopra, Ellie Hurer, Yasmin Meeda and Lindsay Ejoh have built followings on social media by posting about their PhDs. Adapted from Getty

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In January 2023, Lindsay Ejoh posted a TikTok video of her work dissecting a frozen mouse brain. In it, the neuroscience PhD student uses a bladed machine to cut paper-thin tissue slices that she’ll later examine with a microscope. She also complains about the hour she spent trying to get the machine to work. The post racked up an impressive 5,000 views and dozens of comments. “What a cool life you lead,” wrote one user.

Ejoh, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is one of a growing number of PhD students building a following on social media by posting about their lives in research. Globally, an estimated 200 million people now consider themselves ‘content creators’ . But some graduate students are progressing to be ‘influencers’ — with large followings and, in some cases, brand partnerships that can earn them hundreds of dollars per post.

These PhD influencers post on Instagram and TikTok about their day-to-day struggles with graduate studies. They offer research tips, share protocols and build networks. Many also share their experiences as members of under-represented groups in science. “This is so important for expanding the public image and broadening public perceptions of who is a scientist,” says Jocelyn Steinke, who studies media portrayal of science at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.

But broadcasting a PhD comes with downsides. It can be time-consuming and elicit harsh comments about how people look or conduct themselves in the laboratory. A looming ban on TikTok in the United States is forcing some users to rethink their approach . Four influencers discussed their experiences with Nature .

Showcasing science on TikTok

Ejoh started using TikTok during the second year of her PhD. She enjoyed watching videos of others documenting their daily lives, she says. But she could see only a few people posting about life as a PhD scientist — and hardly any were Black women like her.

Lindsay Ejoh documents her life as a PhD student on TikTok and Instagram.

This prompted Ejoh to start her account @neuro_melody in 2021. “I thought it could be really cool to talk about what I do every day,” she says, and by doing so challenge stereotypes about who succeeds in science. Steinke says that, as well as striving to build a large community of followers, influencers typically distinguish themselves from other content creators by focusing “on one specific area of expertise”, such as fashion, sports or science. So far, Ejoh has gained more than 18,000 followers on TikTok and 53,000 on Instagram .

In one TikTok post, she suggests that PhD applicants can strengthen their applications by presenting undergraduate research data in conference posters. She also points to grants that people from under-represented groups in research can access. “Academia can be very gatekeeping,” says Ejoh. “The account is a nice way to share what I know about how to get in and how to thrive here.” Followers responded to the post positively. “You make me want to get a PhD so bad!!” read one comment.

Ejoh also posts about life outside work, such as a trip out of the city to pick apples with other graduate students. Some followers “are here because they’re interested in the brain and neuroscience and pain”, she says. “Others are interested in seeing a successful Black woman living her life and having fun.”

Ejoh has ambitions to build her following further and to become a principal investigator (PI). If TikTok is banned, she knows she’ll have to focus her efforts on Instagram. “I plan to post throughout my postdoc, I want to post about being a PI,” she says.

A lucrative biology Instagram feed

Since 2019, PhD student Yasmin Meeda has been approached by companies asking her to feature their brand on her booming Instagram feed. The marine microbiologist at the University of Exeter, UK, has gained more than 45,000 followers on her Instagram account @marinebiologywithyaz by posting about her PhD work on marine algae ( Phaeodactylum tricornutum ) and how it responds to changing environments. Now biotechnology firms, such as Thermo Fisher Scientific and Qiagen, and the media company BuzzFeed, pay her to feature their products in short videos, or reels.

PhD student Yasmin Meeda features biotechnology brands on her Instagram feed.

Advertising through influencers has become a huge market — estimated to be worth more than US$35 billion this year. In one reel that Meeda created jointly with Qiagen, she showcases a new kit for isolating bacterial DNA and says it generates less plastic and cardboard waste than an earlier version. She makes between £200 and £1,500 (US$255–1,900) per post, she says, which supplements the grant Meeda receives: “I’ve actually been able to save.”

Meeda didn’t set out to turn a profit from social media — she wanted to challenge the idea that some people are not smart enough to do a PhD. In one post about her final school assessments, she wrote, “11 years ago, I failed my A-level exams.” But she retook some of them and earned a place studying biology at the University of Brighton, UK, before proceeding to graduate studies. By posting about her experience, she hopes to show others that a PhD is achievable regardless of school performance and to better represent women in science.

Setting up brand partnerships has had other advantages for Meeda. It has helped to develop her negotiation skills, which, she thinks, could help her to discuss salaries in her future career. And she’s gained a better idea of what that might be. Either presenting TV documentaries on natural history or becoming a lecturer at a university “would suit me well”, she says.

The power of perseverance

When Ellie Hurer was around three years into her PhD, she started using Instagram to find researchers who were dealing with chronic illnesses and to post about her own. Hurer’s conditions include depression, anxiety, benign tumours and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. “On Instagram, I found so many people, PhD students and academics that were in a very similar situation to me,” she says.

Cancer researcher Ellie Hurer uses Instagram to show how people with disabilities can pursue research.

Hurer, who studies pancreatic cancer at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield, UK, uses her Instagram account @myphdexperience to show how people with disabilities can pursue research. She has more than 88,000 followers. “I want to prove to myself & others that even with chronic illnesses & disabilities, we can achieve anything if we just keep trying,” she says in a post that garnered more than 3,000 likes. A graduate student with chronic illness wrote in response: “It can feel so isolating and seeing you persevere makes it feel possible.”

Hurer also posted about suspending her PhD — for about three years in total — to undergo tumour surgeries and manage her mental health. “If suspending wasn’t an option, I probably would’ve had to quit,” she wrote in a step-by-step guide to taking time off . Her funding was paused and she lost a sense of purpose during her early time away, she wrote. “I wish I had looked after myself more.”

For Hurer, creating online content became a source of income, too. She has made reels featuring a figure-making tool made by the company Mind the Graph , and for BBC Bitesize — an online study resource for UK school children. She says a reel can take around ten hours to produce in collaboration with a company. “You get paid proportional to how much engagement you get and the number of followers you have,” she says — for her, about £1,500 per reel.

Hurer has faced drawbacks to being a PhD influencer. When her account hit around 20,000 followers, “I got a bit obsessive,” she says. “I was trying to post all the time and get the numbers up, and it became a bit unhealthy.” Now Hurer is more careful about how often she posts. She’s also dealt with negative comments about her appearance, which she handles by reporting and blocking the related accounts. “Maybe once in a blue moon, I’ll get a comment about my lip fillers,” she says. “These people would never say that to your face.”

Logging the 24-hour #PhDlife

In 2022, cancer biologist Ria Chopra posted a reel of herself working through the night in the lab. Chopra is studying how a disrupted body clock might accelerate the growth of cancer — work that involves monitoring the protein levels in cancer cells from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.. “I have to sleep in the lab and collect samples every four hours,” says Chopra, who studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong .

Ria Chopra, a cancer biologist, posts on Instagram about her PhD studies in Hong Kong.

Chopra has gained more than 15,000 followers on Instagram partly by posting such nitty-gritty scenes of lab life: one post shows her collecting prostate cancer cells from storage in liquid nitrogen, staining them with a bright green fluorescent marker and placing the samples in a −80 °C freezer. She sets most of her reels to dance music — a nod to her other passion and inspiration for her Instagram username @phdwhodances.

Chopra was one of the first PhD influencers to post about studying in Hong Kong — something that attracted followers, she says. Although Chopra, who was born in India, grew up in Hong Kong, she does not speak Cantonese or Mandarin fluently, she says. Prospective graduate students from India, Pakistan, the United States and Europe messaged her to find out how she navigated a PhD despite language barriers.

Chopra is currently posting only once every few months as she focuses on wrapping up her PhD. But in the future, she says, she might document her transition from academia to industry. “I think people would be interested to see the journey from a PhD to biotech or pharmaceutical companies,” she says.

Nature 631 , 724-725 (2024)

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Elise Vandersteen Bailey, PhD, MPP

Population health sciences.

Currently working as a Research Scientist at the TORCH Lab in the Division of Epidemiology in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine.

I received my Master of Public Policy from the Program of Public Affairs and my PhD from the Department of Population Health Sciences, with an emphasis in Health Systems Research at the University of Utah in 2024.

Brief autobiography

Before entering the MPP / PHS PhD program, I earned a bachelor of sciences in exercise and sports sciences from the University of Utah, with a minor in the sociology of health and medicine. While in the dual degree program, I worked as a teaching assistant in the Program of Public Affairs and as a research assistant for the Department of Population Health Sciences. In that work, I gained significant experience researching immigration-based health care disparities, early childhood nursing programs, COVID-19 vaccine uptake, and mental health care. This work helped me further develop my interests in mental health care and health care disparities, which I pursued in my dissertation research under Fernando Wilson. After graduating, I began work as a research scientist in the TORCH lab at the University of Utah School of Medicine, where I study veterans’ neurological and mental health.

My experience in the program

I entered the first cohort of students in the dual degree program in 2018. There are a lot of points of synergy in studying public policy and health services research simultaneously. The PhD program gave me many research skills I would not have learned studying public policy alone. Studying public policy gave me an understanding of the legal and regulatory structure of health care systems that the population health sciences program, alone, would not have given me. I loved the way that studying both sharpened my focus on health services research with real world policy applications. I completed my masters capstone on the transportation accessibility of Utah mental health care facilities by public transit under the direction of Phillip Singer. This was just the beginning of an interest in health geography. 

In my research assistant work with Dr. Wilson, I gained significant experience applying statistical methods to theories, both of which I had learned separately in my coursework. In particular, we studied health care disparities impacting immigrants, women, racial and ethnic minorities, and veterans. 

All these things lead me to my dissertation topic. I studied variability in racial/ethnic mental health care disparities. Although I also studied variation over time, I was particularly interested in geographic variation in those disparities, and in the role geography-related variables played in the disparities. I examined area deprivation, drive time to care, residence in historically or currently racially segregated areas, health care provider shortage areas, rurality. To keep my work relevant to both health services research and public policy, the outcomes I examined were 1) clinically appropriate mental health care utilization and 2) receipt of financial assistance for mental health care through legally-required charity care programs. The work was done using electronic health records data from University of Utah Health. You can see that I integrated many of the interests I developed during the dual degree program.

My favorite course

My favorite courses were Public Policy Theory & Application taught by Lina Svedin (and which I later TA-ed for with Morgon Lyon-Cotti as the professor), Health Economics from Norm Waitzman, and Comparative Health Systems from Rachel Hess. These three courses were really where I learned most about the way that public policy shapes health care systems and health outcomes. They provided me with the foundation of my understanding about how and why health care systems function. 

Some of my research experience

The bulk of my research experience came from my work as a research assistant. One favorite project was using secondary data and systematic review to examine relationships between health and employment in veterans. Another favorite was examining mental health status and the mental health care system in Utah. I did significant work mapping Utah mental health care facilities that provide specific mental health services, trying to understand the geographic distribution of those services across the state. Also for that project, I examined unique data describing substance use disorder stigma and its predictors in Utah.

What I enjoyed most about the program

I loved the coursework and dissertation phases of the program for different reasons. Having been in school for a long time, I’m very comfortable in a classroom and really enjoyed learning directly from experts. The self-directedness of the dissertation phase was uncomfortable and new for me—although that’s part of the point. I benefitted a lot from learning how to work more independently on my own ideas, with support from experts instead of instruction from them.

How I’m prepared for my next step

My next step is as a research scientist researching veterans’ health. I think the most important things the dual degree program did were 1) giving me a foundational understanding of public policy, health care systems, and research methods, and 2) teaching me how to add to that foundation on my own. In other words, I learned how to learn more. As I go forward in my work and inevitably find myself in need of researching in new areas or applying new methods, I’m confident that I can learn what I need to make it happen

My advice for future students

My advice for other students would be to meet everyone you can in the department—students, postdoctoral trainees, staff, professors—and talk to them about what they’re interested in. This can really help you understand the almost unimaginably wide world of possible research work in population health sciences and, from there, narrow in on what you’re interested in. 

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Giovanni's primary research interests are in security studies, particularly rebel governance.

Giovanni's research focuses on the inclusion of civilians in rebel governance processes and its effects on rebel-state bargaining dynamics. He holds an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) studentship with Advanced Quantitative Methods. He has also conducted research on the effects of contentious parades on intergroup relations in Northern Ireland.

He was previously awarded a MSc in Security Studies at UCL and a bachelors degree in International and Diplomatic Sciences at University of Genoa. He was also the vice-secretary of the Democratic Party in Celle Ligure (Italy) for more than two years. In his free time, he likes to read on Buddhism and Taoism and write short poems.

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By the Rebels, for the People: collaborative rebel governance and its effects on rebel-state bargaining dynamics.

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Giovanni's primary research interests are in security studies, particularly rebel governance. His PhD research aims to categorize rebel governance systems on the basis of their inclusion of civilians, in terms of representation and agency in decision-making. His theory argues that collaborative rebel governance generates information on rebel legitimacy and support, which mitigates informational asymmetries that hinder rebel-state bargaining efforts. Using a self-coded novel dataset, he tests the theory by conducting a statistical analysis of rebel governance systems between 1975 and 2012 to reveal whether the inclusion of civilians increases the likelihood of negotiations and decreases the risk of conflict recurrence. Moreover, he will conduct interviews with state decision-makers for process tracing to test the mechanisms.

Giovanni has also conducted research on the effect of contentious parades on intergroup relations in Northern Ireland, along with Kit Rickard, Sigrid Weber and Kristin M. Bakke. This research employs a mixed methods approach, combining a pooled analysis of British elections surveys, a before-after analysis of a survey fielded in 2022, and qualitative evidence collected through interviews and participant observation during fieldwork in Belfast.

Research interests:

• International Relations
• Security Studies
• Comparative Politics
• Political Economy
• Quantitative Methods (regression analysis and causal inference)
• Qualitative Methods (interviews and participant observation)
• Machine Learning

Research groups:

• Conflict & Change
• Comparative Political Economy and Behaviour

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Web content display web content display, admissions schedule for the academic year 2021/2022, november recruitment round [2021].

In the November recruitment round, we invite Candidates to submit applications within the Biomedical Sciences PhD programme. The admission limit: 5 (MCB: 3, Solaris: 2).

The recruitment will be held via e-mails:  [email protected]  and  [email protected]

September recruitment round [2021]

In the fall recruitment round, we invite Candidates to submit applications within the following PhD study programmes:

• Astronomy - 0*
• Biochemistry, biophysics, molecular biology, and biotechnology - 0*
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• PhD programme in Biology - 0*

The recruitment will be held online through the  Online Registration System  (IRK), which will be open on September 15 th .

*   the "0" admission of limit may change if the Candidates selected in the previous recruitment do not enroll to the Doctoral School by 10/09/2021 inclusive.

July recruitment round [2021]

In the July recruitment round we offer places within  Biomedical Sciences  PhD study programme. 

Limits of places offered in the July recruitment round: 4 

The recruitment will be held online through the  Online Registration System (IRK) , which will open on July 5th. 

May recruitment round [2021]

In the summer round, we invite Candidates to submit applications within 12 PhD study programmes.

Limits of places offered in May recruitment

The recruitment will be held online through the  Online Registration System  (IRK), which will be open on May 17th.

March recruitment round [2021]

In the March recruitment round, we offered places within two PhD study programmes:

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Limits of places offered in March recruitment round are: 

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