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Our fully-funded PhD Scholarships offer an excellent opportunity to join an internationally renowned department within a world-class university
Why a PhD in Psychology at Edinburgh?
What do the PhD Scholarships cover?
The PhD Scholarships, funded by the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences (PPLS) cover the full-time tuition fee (UK/EU or overseas level) with an annual stipend of £14,553 for three years (pro rata for part-time students).
In which research areas do staff offer supervision?
We can offer expert supervision across a wide range of topics including:
We examine how nature and nurture interact across the lifespan, from before birth through infancy and childhood, on to adulthood and old age.
Human cognitive neuroscience
Our core interests are in memory, attention, executive function, visual cognition, and perceptuo-motor control
We focus on projects relating to Cognitive Epidemiology, Cognitive Ageing, Evolutionary Psychology, and Positive Psychology.
We take a broad approach to parapsychology, conducting research into the psi hypothesis, pseudo-psi (‘what’s not psychic but looks like it’), beliefs about the paranormal and the history of accounts and studies of anomalous phenomena.
Our core interests are in representation of language in the brain, analysing communicative processes in dialogue, and researching the earliest stages of language development in infants and young children.
Our expertise covers language processing in reading, eye movement control, visual word recognition, computational models of reading, and reading development.
The group focuses on this theme both at the individual level and by studying interactions at the inter-individual, intra-group, inter-group and socio-cultural levels.
The group investigates a wide range of topics including covert and overt attention, object and scene recognition, visual memory, eye movements in scene perception and reading.
How to apply
To be considered for this scholarship you must apply online for the PhD Psychology by Friday 30 November 2018. There is no need to apply separately for the Scholarship. Your application will be automatically considered.
To find out more and apply please visit our website:
Please get in touch with our School Postgraduate Office should you have any questions about applying to the PhD Programme telephone: +44 (0) 131 651 5002, email: pplspgoffice@ed.ac.uk
Application deadline: 30 November 2018
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