People with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have difficulties in social communication, including perceiving emotions. Using a combination of psychophysics, neuroimaging, and virtual reality tools, this project will study cortical mechanisms underlying whole-person representations of emotion in ASD, by characterising the processing and integration of emotion signals from the face and body.
The PhD project is supervised by an interdisciplinary team with backgrounds in psychology/neuroscience (E. von dem Hagen, C. Teufel, S. Quadflieg (Bristol)), and psychiatry (J. Hall). We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, and innovative individual with an excellent degree in medicine, biology, psychology, neuroscience, physics, engineering/computer science, or related discipline. The successful candidate will be based at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) (http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/cubric/), which is part of the School of Psychology (http://psych.cf.ac.uk/).
For further details of this project, please see here: http://www.gw4biomed.ac.uk/files/2018/09/MRC19NMHCa-von-dem-Hagen.pdf
This research project is in competition with 69 other studentship projects available across the GW4 BioMed MRC Doctoral Training Partnership. Up to 18 full studentships will be awarded to the best applicants. The studentship consists of full UK/EU tuition fees, as well as a Doctoral Stipend matching UK Research Council National Minimum (£14,777. for 2018/19, updated each year) for 3.5 years.
The DTP welcomes applications from both UK and EU applicants. Please note that negotiations regarding ‘Brexit’ will not affect recruitment of EU students for studentships starting in October 2019, as per the July 2018 government announcement that non-UK EU doctoral students applying for courses beginning in the academic year 2019/20 remain eligible for RCUK support. Non-EU international students are unfortunately not eligible.
Find out more information about the DTP including how to apply: http://www.gw4biomed.ac.uk/doctoral-students/
