Psychology & Neuroscience

Postgraduate research opportunities

• Neuroscience & Psychology [PhD/MD]
• Philosophy & Psychology [PhD]
• Psychology [PhD/MPhil/MSc (Research)]

Postgraduate research

95% of our Psychology and Neuroscience research has been evaluated as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ in the latest Research Excellence Framework [2021].

MSc and PhD opportunities include:

• Non-invasive multimodal brain imaging using fMRI
• Sensory and cognitive processing using MEG/EEG
• Functions of brain oscillations
• Neuromodulation via TMS
• Brainstem circuits in pain; spinal cord injury
• Schizophrenia
• Autism
• Stroke (experimental; preclinical and clinical)
• Translational neuroscience
• Laminar cortical circuits in animals and humans
• Cortical circuits mediating perception and memory
• Circadian rhythms
• Visual perception and cognition
• Social signal processing (emotion, kinship)
• Language production and comprehension
• Health behaviour (eating, stress)
• Virtual agents and social robotics
• Statistical and scientific methodology.

You may want to identify and contact a potential supervisor to discuss your research proposal before you apply.

• Staff research interests search

Please contact a potential supervisor before applying.