PhD Scholarships in Psychology, Bangor University, UK (2016)

Please follow the links in the list below in order to find out more about the variety of Psychology PhD opportunities Bangor is now offering. All these opportunities are fully funded and offer the right candidates an excellent opportunity to be part of internationally renowned research activity.

In the 2014 REF Bangor Psychology was ranked as having 89% of its research output as either ‘internationally excellent’ or ‘world-leading’ and these studentships offer a great chance for motivated individuals with a passion for research to build on this previous success in a friendly and supportive atmosphere.

If you would like to see what some of our current PhD students are up to then click here for abstracts and videos from our biannual Psychology PhD Conference which gives our PhDs the opportunity to showcase their research activity.

1+3 Studentship
- PhD in Social and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Dr Kami Koldewyn and Dr Richard Ramsey
Learning to be social: Using imitation to enhance social cognition across typical and atypical development

3 Year Studentships
- PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience: Prof. Paul Downing
Investigating the neurocognitive mechanisms underpinning social perception

- PhD in PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience: Dr Manon Jones
The Science of Literary Reading

- PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience: Prof. Charles Leek and Dr George Houghton
An investigation of the spatial and temporal distributions of attention in human vision

- PhD in Cognitive Science: Dr Gary Oppenheim
From meaning to sound in less than a second: the cognitive science of language production.

- PhD in Social/Cognitive Neuroscience: Dr Richard Ramsey
The PhD project will address novel questions in social and cognitive neuroscience using a combination of behavioural measures and state-of-the-art functional brain imaging techniques

- PhD in Applied Behaviour Analysis: Dr Rebecca Sharp and Professor Robert Jones
Behaviour analytic contributions to the lives of people with dementia and learning disabilities – Ensuring a good quality of life

- PhD in Motor Control: Dr Simon Watt
Grasp control in tool use and hand-movement disorders

We look forward to hearing from you and you are encouraged to make contact with the academic lead for the PhD you are interested in.

Further details:
http://academicpositions.eu