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PhD Project Template
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Use one form per project
Please complete & submit to international@nuigalway.ie as soon as possible, and by 27/11/2012
In your email, begin the subject line with [SWB] (be sure to use square brackets) to ensure that your email is filed correctly. Emails will be automatically
filed
PI name &
contact
details:
Dr Marie Coggins
School:
School of Physics
Has project
been agreed
with head (or
nominee) of
proposed
registration
school?
Research
Centre /
group
affiliation:
Member of the Environment and Health and the Centre for Climate and Air Pollution Studies (C-CAPS), research groups
within Ryan Institute NUI, Galway
Research
http://www.ryaninstitute.ie/research/
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group /
centre
website:
PI website /
link to CV:
http://www.nuigalway.ie/faculties_departments/physics/staff_pages/m_coggins/
Brief summary of PI research / research group / centre activity (2 or 3 lines max):
If you are already involved in relevant scholarly activities relating to Brazil, please mention them here.
Lecturer in Occupational Hygiene, experience working in the area of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, working in research, industry and
academia. Her research interests include the assessment of environmental and occupational exposures and the completion of health based risk assessments.
Title & brief description of PhD project (suitable for publication on web):
Optimising Occupational Hygiene exposure assessment strategy - Active Pharmaceutical manufacturing case study
As pharmaceutical compounds, become more potent and pose a greater challenge from an exposure control perspective. This project will be
industry based, working occupational hygienists who are working in the Pharma sector in Brazil. Drawing on international best practice, this
project will investigate the applicability of exposure assessment strategies for controlling exposures to API’s.
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Unique selling points of PhD project in NUI Galway:
NUI Galway projects should emphasise features that are not typically available in Brazil – specific equipment, multi-disciplinarity, aspects of structured
programme, links with industry, placements, links with other research groups etc.
The PI has developed links with members of the Brazilian Occupational Hygiene Society, working in the Pharmaceutical industry
in Brazil.
PI has worked in the Pharmaceutical industry as an Occupational Hygienists, and also supervised Occupational hygiene research
industry based projects. The PI is familiar with exposure assessment and control approaches used the pharma sector. The PI has
extensive experience in experimental techniques required to measure occupational exposure, and the student will be trained inhouse. Student will benefit from being embedded within research centres (CCAPS- Centre for Climate and Air Pollution Studies
and Centre of Health for the Environment) that have large researcher numbers and extensive research facilities.
Name & contact details for project queries, if different from PI named above:
Please indicate the graduates of which disciplines that should apply:
Health Science, Science, Engineering
Ciência sem Fronteiras / Science Without Borders Priority Area:
Please indicate the specific programme priority area under which the proposed PhD project fits- choose only one (tick box):
Engineering and other technological areas
Pure and Natural Sciences (e.g. mathematics, physics, chemistry)/Physical Sciences (Mathematics,
x
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Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Geosciences)
Health and Biomedical Sciences / Clinical, Pré-clinical and Health Sciences
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), Computing
Aerospace
Pharmaceuticals
Sustainable Agricultural Production
Oil, Gas and Coal
Renewable Energy
Minerals, Minerals Technology
Biotechnology
Nanotechnology and New Materials
Technologies for Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Disasters
Bioprospecting and Biodiversity
Marine Sciences
Creative Industry
New technologies in constructive engineering
x
Please indicate which of the following applies to this project (referring to Science Without Borders arrangements):
Suitable only as a Full PhD (Y/N): _ y____
Available to candidates seeking a Sandwich PhD arrangement (Y/N): __y___
Suitable for either/Don’t know: yes