Available funded PhD studentships

Details of the current funded PhD studentships open to applications.

Funded studentships

The following studentship is in competition for funding by ESRC:

If you have your own research proposal you can apply to the ESCR competition so long as it is within their remit. To do this, take a look at our academic staff profiles to see which staff member(s) have similar research interests to you. You can then contact them and give them a brief idea of what you would like to research and discuss whether they would support an application to the ESRC.

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

Project: New methods for enhanced brain activity mapping through multi-modal data-fusion and deep learning
Supervisor: Dr. Marco Palombo, Prof. David Marshall, Prof. Simon Rushton and, Prof. Derek Jones
Start date: 1 April 2023
Deadline for applications: 13 January 2023
Funders: EPSRC

Project: The role of feedforward and feedback processes in texture learning
Supervisor: Prof. Rob Honey and Prof. Kevin Fox
Start date: 1 October 2023
Deadline for applications: 5 December 2022
Funders: SW Bio

Project: Exploring when and how the testing effect benefits learning in educational contexts
Supervisor: Dr Katy Burgess and Professor Rob Honey
Start date: 1 October 2023
Deadline for applications: 17 March 2023

Project: Exploring the Interdependence between Time Perception and Causality
Supervisor: Prof Marc Buehner and Dr C Teufel
Start date: 1 October 2023
Deadline for applications: 17 March 2023

Project: Effects of loneliness on brain function in adolescence
Supervisor: Dr Livia Tomova and Prof Geoff Haddock
Start date: 1 October 2023
Deadline for applications: 17 March 2023