FAIRER-DTP Studentship

Background information

The Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing (ACHA) is a new research, education and training centre from Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University of London.

We work closely with local people and health and care staff in north east London to improve care and support for people as they grow older.

ACHA was awarded match funding from the Vivensa to establish its first PhD programme, to support ACHA’s academic ambitions to build research capacity in Healthy Ageing.

“New approaches to FrAilty: Inclusivity and REsilience in Ageing Research” (FAIRER-DTP) began in January 2025.

FAIRER will focus, like ACHA, on applied health research, responding to the needs of our local population and health and care system and seeking implementable solutions. ACHA academics will oversee the programme via a Steering Group. The ACHA group and wider collaborators have designed PhD projects based on the three overarching areas of ACHA:

1. frailty prevention and living well with long term conditions and multimorbidity
2. rehabilitation
3. cognition

In line with the principles of ACHA, the three non-clinical, four year, PhD studentships, are registered at Queen Mary University of London, and embedded within ACHA; a vibrant community of applied health researchers, clinicians and health professionals and local people. The students also benefit from the extensive support offered to QMUL PhD students.

These three doctoral programmes are synergistic, exploring three aspects of our vision for fairer, more inclusive approaches to changing the trajectories of frailty in older age.

Research Projects

 

• Behaviour change to improve cognitive wellbeing in older people from underserved groups with Mild Cognitive Impairment

 

• Understanding inequalities in delirium identification to improve care and patient outcomes

 

• Monitoring of fracture repair in older people to optimise recovery

 

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