AWaGHR - Student projects

The AWaGHR Centre is seeking exceptional and highly motivated PhD candidates to undertake research on a range of projects associated with women and girls’ health.

The Centre conducts research on a broad range of health issues across the human lifespan and is located at the University of Queensland’s School of Public Health at the Herston Campus, Brisbane, Queensland.

The Centre has a range of projects to offer, from studying the intra- and inter- generational effects of socio-economic, behavioural, and lifestyle factors on a range of health, wellbeing and health service use outcomes. We also offer projects associated with statistical methodology in longitudinal and life course data.

PhD projects will be based on data from the following studies:

• The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH) is a cohort study funded by the Australian Department of Health. With over 50 thousand participants followed-up regularly since 1996, it is one of the leading studies of its kind in the world. 
• The Mother’s and their Children (MatCH) project, based on all the mothers of the ALSWH 1973-78 ALSWH cohort, takes a life course approach to investigate the influence of preconception maternal health and wellbeing on the growth and development of all her children. 
• The Genetic variants, Early Life exposures, and Longitudinal Endometriosis symptoms Study (GELLES) aims to improve our understanding of the factors that put women at increased risk of endometriosis and delay its diagnosis. 
• The Mothers and their Children’s Healthcare Experience Study (MatCHES) is investigating women’s experiences of preventive healthcare from before conception through to pregnancy and early childhood. 
• The National Health and Medical Research Council funded Centre for Research Excellence on Women and Non-communicable Diseases: Prevention and Detection (CRE WaND), is based around ALSWH and record linkage with administrative and other data sets including birth and death records, hospitalisation, cancer registration, pharmaceutical and other health service use. 
• The Hysterectomy, Oophorectomy and Long-term chronic Disease (HOLD) study – is a data linkage study funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council to address the evidence gap on the short and long-term impacts of hysterectomy.