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Folks
Please see below for details on a PhD position going in Aberdeen (open to UK/EU students only I'm afraid). 
 All the best
Chris

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Integrating fisheries biology, economics and risk assessment to tackle the problem of parasites in the fish supply chain
 
http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=46462&LID=12 (deadline 6 September)
 
An opportunity has arisen for a multidisciplinary PhD studentship based in Aberdeen and integrated with the EU-funded "PARASITE" project (see http://parasite-project.eu/). 
 
The project involves: 
. Pre-assessment (understanding the framing and selection rules employed to study this particular risk)
. Providing support for identification of parasites in fish obtained from around the UK. This will lead to statistical models of parasite burdens in fish and potential exposure to consumers.
. Development of a spread-sheet based quantitative risk assessment utilising data from both questionnaires and fisheries surveys. 
. Determining by questionnaire both the concerns and tolerability of the risk.
. Utilise information obtained from other partners in the project on the efficacy, practicality and cost of interventions.
. Prepare and analyse a questionnaire on the "willingness to pay" for reduction of the risk
The student should be keen to develop skills to work in a range of scientific disciplines, interacting with the public, industry and partner institutions in the EU project. 
 
Funding is available for European/UK students.
 
Informal enquiries may be addressed to any of the project supervisors as listed below
 
Supervisors and e-mails:
 
Graham Pierce, [log in to unmask]     
Norval Strachan, [log in to unmask]      
Ioannis Theodossiou, [log in to unmask]      
Campbell Pert, [log in to unmask]                                                         
 




The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. 

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