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FULLY FUNDED PHD WITH £20,000 TRAINING BUDGET IN CAUSAL INFERENCE, DECISION MODELLING, AND HEALTH ECONOMICS

• FULLY FUNDED PHD WITH £20,000 TRAINING BUDGET IN CAUSAL INFERENCE, DECISION MODELLING, AND HEALTH ECONOMICS
  
  PhD title: Developing a Discrete Event Simulation of EMDR vs CBT using Real-World Data
  
  Overview: Starting 01/10/2026, this 3.5 years, fully funded PhD (UK fees only) includes a UKRI stipend and a £20,000 Research & Training Support Grant (RTSG), alongside offering an exciting and unique opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiencies of Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) versus cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in NHS Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression (NHS-TT) services.
  
  Key points:
  - Supported by and building on the ongoing research of the NIHR-funded Target Trials in Mental Health (TTMH) programme:
  - Access to nationally, linked real-world data (RWD) covering NHS-TT services, hospitals, secondary mental health services, and drug dispensing data
  - Learn and apply causal inference techniques associated with target trial emulation to RWD
  - Methodological research into how such causal inference technique and RWD can be used to populate a discrete event simulation (DES)
  - Learn how such approaches can evaluate cost-effectiveness and cost-efficiency to inform health technology assessment (HTA) processes such as conducted by NICE in England & Wales
  
  The skills learned during this PhD will set up the successful candidate for a career in academia, consultancy, HTA (e.g., NICE), or government.
  
  The PhD is only possible due to the excellent and ongoing work of the TTMH programme team, alongside the world-leading supervisory team across the The University of Sheffield and UCL, including:
  - Dr Matthew Franklin (Primary Supervisor; TTMH programme Chief Investigator):
  - Prof Hazel Squires (Professor of Health-Related Decision Modelling)
  - Prof Nick Latimer (Professor of Health Economics)
  - Prof Rob Saunders (Professor of Mental Health Data Science)
  
  The PhD opportunity is generously funded by EMDR Association UK who will have some oversight, but not direct input, into the PhD student and project.
  
  All other details are in the FindaPhD advert. All students are welcome to apply, however UK student fees only will be covered. International applicants offered a place must secure funding to cover the difference between home and international fee rates. Please get in contact if you have any questions and please share this opportunity far and wide!

  Thank you and kind regards

  Matt Franklin and Hazel Squires.
  Hazel Squires,

  Professor of health-related decision modelling,
  SCHARR, University of Sheffield,
  Regent Court, 30 Regent Street,
  Sheffield, S1 4DA.
  Posted on 2026-05-28 by Sarah Fores