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PHD Funding Opportunities

As part of the Research Institute for Social Sciences we are pleased to announce a range of funding opportunities for new Psychology PhD students for 2013-14. We offer a wide range of specialist areas of supervision in the broad areas of Brain & Cognition; Health & Wellbeing; and Social & Developmental Psychology: for more information please see our Research pages

The first step is to identify a suitable supervisor through our Research pages, then approach them with some ideas about what your research might involve. If your interests mesh, you will then work on developing a PhD proposal in time for our 8th March deadline. There are a number of staff who are actively looking for PhD students and who will be happy to support you in preparing an application. Particular projects where staff are seeking well-qualified students include the following:

The decline in cognitive control due to healthy ageing (Dr Jim Grange): and jimgrange.com
The positive or negative psychological effects of swearing (Dr Richard Stephens)
Examining the nature of memory encoding and retrieval, with particular reference to single process and dual process memory model (Dr Andrew Rutherford)
Everyday experiences of using music (exercise, travel, leisure, music festivals) (Dr Alexandra Lamont)

If you have any queries or would like support in how to identify a supervisor or prepare an application please contact Dr Alexandra Lamont (a.m.lamont@keele.ac.uk), Associate Postgraduate Research Director for the Centre for Psychological Research.

For more details and how to apply please see: Postgraduate Funding Opportunities for 2013-2014