QUT PhD scholarship: Using large datasets for better diabetes foot disease
Queensland University of Technology
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Diabetes foot disease is a somewhat silent but leading cause of the world’s health burden.
This PhD project will be part of or augment a larger NHMRC Investigator Grant project (Better feet, better lives) that aims to develop better predictive models that help identify people with diabetes foot disease who are most likely to have poorer health outcomes such as poor quality of life, non-healing ulcers, infections, recurrence, emergency visits, hospitalisations, amputations, morbidity and mortality.
About the scholarship and project
This PhD project will be achieved by linking large existing datasets that contain data on people with diabetes foot disease in the community (such as Diabetes Registries, Diabetes Foot Registries, Medicare Benefits Schedule, Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule data collections) to data in hospitals (such as Emergency, Hospital Discharge, Hospital Costs data collections) and data in other relevant datasets (such as Burden of Disease, Mortality databases).
The candidate will be supervised by Associate Professors Peter Lazzarini and Susanna Cramb and have the opportunity to be part of one of Australia’s leading health services research environments with other PhD students, research staff and members of the dynamic Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI) at the School of Public Health and Social Work in the Faculty of Health at QUT.
Eligibility
You need to meet the entry requirements for a QUT Doctor of Philosophy including any English language requirements.
Enrol as a full-time, internal student.
You must commence your degree by 1 July 2026.
Preferably have experience working in one of these areas:
implementation science or qualitative research
diabetes foot disease research and/or clinical practice.
Application closing date
Monday, 25 August 2025
More information
Full details can be found on the QUT website https://www.qut.edu.au/study/fees-and-scholarships/scholarships/better-feet-better-lives-using-large-datasets-to-predict-better-diabetes-foot-disease-outcomes-phd-scholarship
Email Associate Professor Peter Lazzarini at [email protected] detailing your academic and research background, your motivation to research in this field and interest in this scholarship. Please include your CV.
About Queensland University of Technology
QUT is a major Australian university with a global outlook and a real-world focus. We are one of the nation’s fastest growing research universities and our courses are in high demand. Our graduates include eight Rhodes Scholars, five of these awarded in the past six years.
We are an ambitious and collaborative institution that seeks to equip our students and graduates with the skills they'll need in an increasingly disrupted and challenged world. We are transforming the student experience we offer our 50,000 students and we place a premium on the international and national accreditation of our various professional degrees.
Our internationally award-winning Science and Engineering Centre is home to The Cube, acknowledged as one of the world’s largest digital interactive learning and display spaces. We established the world's first Creative Industries Faculty, and we invest heavily in collaborative learning and interdisciplinary research environments.
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