Winners of the BNA Credibility Prizes 2024
17th April 2024
Supervisor: Prof Anna Franklin (University of Sussex) and Dr Jenny Bosten (University of Sussex)
The PhD studentship is part of a 5-year interdisciplinary European Research Council-funded project investigating the impact of the visual environment on colour perception. The PhD will investigate whether people living in different environments (lush jungle vs arid desert or urban) differ in their colour perception as a result of the chromatic properties of those environments. This will involve conducting colour perception experiments in some of the remotest parts of the world with people from non-industrialised cultures. The student will need to be confident travelling independently, living in rugged conditions (e.g., camping in the jungle), and communicating with people from different cultures to their own. The fieldwork will involve being away from home for up to 5 weeks at a time, several times throughout the year (fieldtrips will have a local guide and translator). Prior experience in taking part in fieldwork or global travel is desirable. The student would join a research group (The Sussex Colour Group, http://www.sussex.ac.uk/psychology/colour/) with a strong track record of research on colour perception.
The School of Psychology is one of the largest centres for the study of psychology in the UK with nearly 50 academic faculty and over 1000 undergraduate and postgraduate students working in a rich and supportive learning environment.
Psychology is a diverse discipline and our size means that we span major research areas in social, cognitive, biological, developmental and clinical psychology. Psychology at Sussex was rated 10th in the UK for research in the 2014 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). 91% of our research at Sussex is ranked as world-leading or internationally significant.
Applications should be made by 20th January 2019
Guidance for applicants:
Candidates should provide:
For queries with respect to the application process please send an email to 'Postgraduate Coordinator' to: psychologyphd-enquiries@sussex.ac.uk
To discuss the details of this PhD project further, please contact to Jenny Bosten (j.bosten@sussex.ac.uk).
Postgraduate Coordinator: psychologyphd-enquiries@sussex.ac.uk
Jenny Bosten: j.bosten@sussex.ac.uk