Available funded PhD studentships

Details of currently funded PhD scholarships open for applications.

Project: Better behavioural tests for clinical research
Supervisor(s): Dr Aline Bompas and Prof Petroc Sumner
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Climate Distress: Development of a Theoretical and Empirical Framework
Supervisor(s): Dr Marc Williams and Prof Wouter Poortinga
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Cortical hyper-excitation and its association with sensory hypersensitivity, neurodiversity, mental health and neurology
Supervisor(s): Prof Petroc Sumner and Prof Krish Singh
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Deep Microstructural Phenotyping of the Developing Adolescent Brain
Supervisor(s): Prof Derek Jones and Dr Livia Tomova
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Development and pilot evaluation of an artificial intelligence-based rhythmic auditory stimulation system for personalised training of finger dexterity in movement disorders and older age (DRUM-AI)
Supervisor(s): Dr Claudia Metzler-Baddeley and Dr Paddy Slator
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Effects of loneliness on cognition in adolescence
Supervisor(s): Dr Livia Tomova and Prof Geoff Haddock
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Gone in seconds? De-activating and re-activating information in working memory
Supervisor(s): Dr Candice Morey and Dr Dominic Guitard
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Greener AI for brain imaging: developing sustainable and accessible MRI technologies with lightweight models and low-energy devices
Supervisor(s): Dr Marco Palombo, Prof Mara Cercignani, Dr Maeliss Jallais and Dr Emre Kopanoglu
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: How to slay the dragon?! Assessing the role of coincidences in causal learning using video games
Supervisor(s): Dr Mark Johansen and Dr Ulrich Von Hecker
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Human Behaviour in Adapting to Environmental Crisis and Risk
Supervisor(s): Prof Nick Pidgeon and Prof Graham Moore
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Identifying pathways to mental health presentations in congenital skin conditions
Supervisor(s): Dr Will Davies, Prof Andrew Thompson and Dr Trevor Humby
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: ‘Identity’ vs. ‘Consensus’ Liberalism: Exploring Progressive Prejudices in the Context of Ideological Dissent and Antisemitism
Supervisor(s): Dr Travis Proulx and Prof Geoff Haddock
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Investigating dementia-risk related brain predictors of cognitive ageing
Supervisor(s): Prof Mara Cercignani, Dr Claudia Metzler-Baddeley and Mia Winter
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Knowledge of development and cognitive stimulation in linguistically diverse families
Supervisor(s): Prof Merideth Gattis and Dr Dean D’Souza
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Learning to Trust (but not Over-trust) AI
Supervisor(s): Prof Phil Morgan, Dr Dominic Guitard, Dr Katy Burgess and Dr Thomas Vaughan-Johnston
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Measuring the precision and accuracy of signals supporting audiovisual perception during active self-movement
Supervisor(s): Prof John Culling and Prof Tom Freeman
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Memory consolidation and retrieval in an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease: from cells to behaviour
Supervisor(s): Prof Mark Good and Dr Joe O’Neill
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Neuroimaging insights into the integration of context in facial expression perception
Supervisor(s): Dr Elisabeth von dem Hagen and Dr Christoph Teufel
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Optimising EEG-Neurofeedback to enhance episodic memory functioning
Supervisor(s): Dr Lisa Evans and Dr Shou-Han Zhou
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Public understanding and consumption of bio-based and biodegradable plastics
Supervisor(s): Prof Wouter Poortinga and Prof Geoff Haddock
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Supporting adoptees’ experiences and relationships in secondary school
Supervisor(s): Dr Amy Paine and Prof Katherine Shelton
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Types of noise in perceptual processing
Supervisor(s): Prof Tom Freeman and Dr Christoph Teufel
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded

Project: Understanding and improving support for neurodivergent students
Supervisor(s): Dr Kate Langley and Dr Catherine Jones
Start date: 1 October 2025
Closing date for applications: 3 March 2025
Funders: School Funded