A new research project Evaluating evidence in medicine, has secured funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project will run for 3 years from 1st June 2015, and it will support the activities of the EBM+ consortium.
Author Archives: Jon Williamson
Evidence Integration in Systems Medicine
In an earlier post I suggested that systems medicine, a new approach to medicine which applies the ‘big data’ approach of bioinformatics, offers substantial promise, but also faces profound challenges, not least the question as to how integrate multifarious sources of evidence in order to discover new causal relationships.
Postgraduate opportunities
Do you want to do a PhD on a topic related to EBM+? If so, do get in touch with one of us.
Current funding opportunities include:
- Eastern ARC studentships. Deadline 30 January 2015. Suitable for projects in Digital Humanities at Kent.
- University of Kent 50th Anniversary GTA scholarships. Deadline 31 January 2015. Philosophy at Kent. ***Deadline extended to 6th March***
- British Society for the Philosophy of Science scholarships. Deadline 27 February 2015. Philosophy of Science.
- Wellcome Trust doctoral studentships. Deadline 2 April 2015. Medical Humanities.
Topics connected to EBM+ are also coverered in Masters programmes in Medical Humanities and Reasoning at the University of Kent and in History and Philosophy of Science at UCL.
Epistemological Challenges for Systems Medicine
Systems Medicine is a promising new paradigm, but it poses some tough challenges for those concerned with causal inference. I’ll mention a few epistemological challenges here and then will give some thoughts about how they might be solved in a future post.
Grading evidence of mechanisms in physics and biology
This is the title of a new research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, which will run at the University of Kent Centre for Reasoning for 3 years from January 2015.
While the new project focuses on basic science rather than medicine, its results should be of interest to EBM+. It will be looking at case studies in physics and biology to try to ascertain commonalities and differences in the way evidence of mechanisms is evaluated. It will also examine whether philosophical theories of evidence can shed light on the strengths and weaknesses of such evidence.
The project is recruiting a fully funded PhD student and a postdoctoral researcher. The application deadline is 3rd September 2014. Please spread the word about these opportunities to your masters students and recent PhDs.
More information on the project and the two positions is available on the project web page.