MSc Studentships in Epidemiology: The Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, based within the Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, is offering two one-year Studentships for full-time students wishing to undertake MSc Epidemiology at the school.

The recipients will be expected to conduct their research project (dissertation) within the Clinical Epidemiology Group and thus an interest in exploiting electronic health records for research in cardiovascular disease is essential.

Opportunities include projects in relating to cardiovascular disease and depression, the patient journey, biomarkers and diabetes and in training in the use of electronic health record data and statistical methods.

Award Application Eligibility Requirements:

Candidates from the UK and Overseas countries may apply but only those who hold an offer of admission for MSc Epidemiology will be considered for the scholarship.

The Award

The award covers full tuition fees at UK/EU rate for MSc Epidemiology.

Overseas applicants from non-EU countries are eligible to apply but will be liable to pay the difference between UK/EU and Overseas tuition fees.

The Studentship cannot be transferred to another institution, nor deferred to a later year.

For more information and application, see: MSc Studentships in Epidemiology

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It seems no pal in the world can be trusted. We reported a story last week on these pages that Apollo Kasami’s ex, Clare Grace Katima was accused of disorganizing the marriage of Enock Barata, a business consultant in town. And so Enock’s wife filed for divorce at the family division of the High Court.

The pals to Clare Grace called us back and gave our snoops a property account of how the whole saga started. They said that Enock when he fell in love with Clare Grace, they went to China for holidays. From China, the two lovebirds went to Malaysia to do shopping for the business they set up opposite Kiira Road police station in Kampala.

Enock’s family members, however, were not in support of the business because before it was intended to be a business for the official wife. So afterwards the family members questioned the sister of Clare Grace called Christo Kabajwara Byaruhanga who works with Price Coopers Nairobi why she was bringing her sister Clare to disorganize Enock’s home. Enock is a cousin to Byaruhanga, Christo’s husband.

The pals also said that it was Christo who brought Clare to Enock because she brought her in her homes and Clare hooked Enock. It is said that after people questioning Christo, she said it was too late for Clare to surrender Enock because the sister knew who Clare was when she hooks a man. Afterwards Clare went with Enock to Rwanda in March this year to play Golf.

When the official wife questioned Enock, he vacated his home on Entebbe road and he no longer stays with his home. According to sources, people now see Enock and Clare Grace at night in hotels. So after vacating his home, Enock filed for divorce. The case is registered as No 15 OF 2012 at the High Court and afterwards the wife replied the divorce case by telling Enock that all the property they have made together should be put in her names and the wife sued Clare for eloping with her husband and using witchrafts on seducing him to leave his home.

Now Enock himself has not replied his wife’s suit. Family members of Enock have also met three times talking about how they could safe Enock’s family issues but they have failed. One family member was also overheard as telling her colleagues in the meeting that she knows Clare right from Makerere University as being scandalous.

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The Africa Thesis Award: Are you interested in Africa and have you written your Masters thesis on an African-related subject?

The African Studies Centre (ASC), the Netherlands institute for Southern Africa (NiZA) and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) are offering you the chance to win €4000 in The Africa Thesis Award.

The award aims to encourage student research and writing on Africa and to promote the study of African cultures and societies.

It is presented annually to a student whose Masters thesis has been completed on the basis of research conducted on Africa.

The award consists of a prize of €1000 for the winning thesis and an additional €3000 for the writing of a PhD proposal or for fieldwork to update the original data for a wider audience.

The winning thesis will be published in the ASC Research Report Series and a summary of the work will be proposed to a CODESRIA journal.

Award Application Eligibility Criteria:

Any final-year student who has completed his/her Masters thesis with distinction at a university in Africa or the Netherlands can apply.

The thesis has to be based on independent empirical research related to Africa.

Contact; The secretary of the ASC-NiZA Awards, African Studies Centre (ASC), P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 (0)71 527 3376. Fax: +31(0) 71 527 3344. E-mail: petitg [at] ascleiden.nl

Deadline: 15 June.

For more scholarship information and application: The Africa Thesis Award Website

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