QUEX PhD opportunity – May 2020

We have a prestigious PhD studentship in Health Economics that is generously funded, as part of the QUEX joint Postgraduate research programme between the University of Exeter, UK and the University of Queensland, Australia.

This exciting project examines the drivers of choice of healthy and unhealthy food and drinks in Australia and the UK, and will be supervised by Professor Richard Smith in Exeter and Professor Amanda Lee in Queensland.

The aim of this project is to add to the evidence base around food and diet costs and drivers of food choice.  Specifically to: (i) establish if the findings in Australia are unique or replicated elsewhere, in this case the UK; (ii) establish the relative importance of price as a driver for food choice vis other factors of known importance (income, price of other products, convenience, access, knowledge, preferences etc.) in a cross-country comparison. These will be unique contributions to the literature in this area.

For an informal conversation regarding this post please contact Professor Richard Smith (rich.smith@exeter.ac.uk). Further details can be found here. The closing date for applications is 15th June 2020.

Date: 21 May 2020