[UK] 7 PhD Studentships in Health and Wellbeing at Sheffield Hallam University

PhD Studentships in Bloom and Wellbeing at Sheffield Hallam University

PhD Assay Studentships - 7 posts available

Faculty of Bloom and Wellbeing

Sheffield Hallam University - Sports Engineering, Biomechanics and the Modelling of Action and Health

Bursary £13,290

Tuition fees

Full time for 3 years

The Sports Engineering Assay Group aural the Faculty of Bloom and Wellbeing employs about 20 agents absolute assay engineers, designers, sports scientists and PhD students. Clients cover Adidas, Prince, Puma, UK Sport, British Swimming and the International Tennis Federation.

Following a actual acknowledged Assay Assessment Exercise, the Sports Engineering Assay Group in accord with the Bloom and Social Care Assay Centre is gluttonous to recruit outstanding candidates to backpack out multi-disciplinary PhD projects. The afterward projects are accessible immediately:

Biomechanics

The biomechanics of the golf swing;

The biomechanics of sports bras;

The dynamics of tennis shoe interactions with tennis courts.

Modelling

Pattern acceptance in Olympic diving;

Optimal architecture of sports accessories application FE & CFD;

Modelling of cardio-vascular risk-reduction in detached populations;

The aftereffect of concrete gaming interfaces on action levels.

These projects will be acceptable for applicants with a 1st or top 2i in a concrete science such as Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Sports Science or a accompanying discipline. Ideal candidates should not be abashed of mathematics or programming and, in particular, we would like to apprehend from acceptance with acquaintance of MATLAB, angel processing, computational aqueous dynamics, bound elements analysis, biomechanics, and the abutment of aristocratic athlete.

Candidates should accept acceptable analytic skills, application and backbone and be acceptable in a team. An absorption and ability of action is adorable but not essential, as is absolute acquaintance of plan in the sports sector.

Opportunities

The Sports Engineering Assay Group and Bloom and Social Care Assay Centre represent a absurd befalling for those gluttonous to accretion acquaintance of a multidisciplinary assay ambiance and ambition to accept a career in the engineering, action or bloom sectors. PhD acceptance accept the befalling to biking across and abutment top contour consultancy projects aural the groups.

Further advice about the altered roles is accessible from www.shu.ac.uk/jobs

Closing date: 9 November 2009

Competition will be able and candidates are encouraged to accede added than one project.

Interviewing will yield abode in November with a adopted alpha date by 1st January 2010.

In the aboriginal instance amuse abide a abounding CV to:

Amanda Brothwell a.brothwell@shu.ac.uk

The Sports Engineering Assay Group

Centre for Action and Exercise Sciences

Faculty of Bloom and Wellbeing

A129 Collegiate Hall

Collegiate Crescent Campus

Sheffield