Available funded PhD studentships

Details of the current funded PhD studentships open to applications.

Action on Hearing Loss studentships

The following studentship is funded by Action on Hearing Loss:

Project: Improved stereo separation for bilateral bone-anchored hearing aids
Supervisor: Professor John Culling
Start date: 1 October 2020
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2020

The following studentship is funded by Alzheimer’s Society:

Project: Regulatory RAS activity in WT mice and a knock-in mouse model of Alzheimer’s pathology
Supervisor: Professor Mark Good, Professor Frank Sengpiel, Dr Scott Miners (Bristol University) and Professor Patrick Kehoe (Bristol University)
Start date: 1 October 2020
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2020

The following studentship is funded by the School of Psychology:

Project: ‘Smart Speaker’ personal assistants to improve independence, communication and well-being in social care settings
Supervisor: Dr Georgina Powell
Start date: 1 October 2020
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2020

The following studentship is funded by the School of Psychology and the School of Computer Science and Informatics:

Project: Video Games and Augmented Reality for dizziness rehabilitation
Supervisor: Professor Petroc Sumner, Dr Fernando Loizides and Dr Georgina Powell
Start date: 1 October 2020
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2020

The following studentships are in competition for funding by the School of Psychology:

Project: Spatial primacy in communication and debate
Supervisor: Dr Ulrich von Hecker
Start date: 1 October 2020
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2020

Project: Game (not) Over! Associative Learning Experiments in Video Games
Supervisor: Dr Mark Johansen
Start date: 1 October 2020
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2020

Project: Predicting the form of words: Investigating the precision of people’s linguistic predictions using Welsh mutations.
Supervisor: Dr Chiara Gambi, Dr Lewis Bott, Dr Jonathan Morris (School of Welsh) and Dr Manon Jones (Bangor University)
Start date: 1 October 2020
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2020

Project: Psychological issues in congenital skin disorders
Supervisor: Dr Will Davies
Start date: 1 October 2020
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2020

Project: Exploring the effects of multi-sensory environments on autistic children
Supervisor: Dr Catherine Jones and Dr Georgina Powell
Start date: 1 October 2020
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2020

Project: Mapping subicular mnemonic circuitry
Supervisor: Dr Joseph O'Neill and Dr Andrew Nelson
Start date: 1 October 2020
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2020

Project: The role of the gut-brain axis in obesity
Supervisor: Dr Claudia Metzler-Baddeley
Start date: 1 October 2020
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2020

Project: Variability in the brain
Supervisor: Dr Aline Bompas
Start date: 1 October 2020
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2020

We welcome applications from candidates who have their own research proposal:

Project: PhD in Psychology
Supervisor: Various
Start date: 1 October 2020
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2020

Applicants are encouraged to contact potential supervisors prior to submitting an application.

The following studentship is in competition for funded by EPSRC:

Project: EPSRC DTP Hub – Sustainable Plastics
Supervisor: Professor Duncan Wass (School of Chemistry) and Professor Wouter Poortinga
Start date: 1 October 2020
Deadline for applications: 17 April 2020