[visionlist] 10 PhD Studentships at Birmingham

[Harriet Allen]

Below is an advert for funded PhD places at Birmingham, UK. Birmingham 
has thriving vision (e.g. Kourtzi, Harris, Schofield, Welchman, Allen) 
and visual cognition (e.g. Humphreys, Riddoch, Olson, Heinke) research 
groups.

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University of Birmingham, School of Psychology:
Up to 10 PhD Studentships available for October 2009

The School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham is the 3rd 
highest ranking department for research in the UK. We seek excellent 
applicants for up to 10 University and Research Council funded research 
studentships for students wishing to start a research degree in October. 
The admissions process runs throughout the academic year, but we 
particularly encourage applications to be made by 16/03/09.

These studentships are available in any of the areas covered by the 
School of Psychology’s three major subject groupings:

(i) Behavioural Neuroscience
(neuroimaging, neuropsychology, psychopharmacology, cognitive 
neurophysiology)

(ii) Developmental, Social and Applied Psychology
(developmental psychology, forensic, clinical, social cognition)

(iii) Language, Cognition and Perception.
(visual perception, reading, speech and gesture production)

Further details on the research groupings can be found here: 
http://www.psychology.bham.ac.uk/research
More detailed descriptions of the research interests of our staff can be 
found here:
http://psychology-people.bham.ac.uk/people-pages/staff.php

The studentships pay the tuition fee and a maintenance allowance 
currently £12,940 per annum.  Home and international students are 
eligible to be considered for these studentships. Tuition fees for 
non-EU overseas applicants will be paid at the home tuition fee rate.

Applications and further details can be obtained from:
Mrs Parveen Chahal, Course Administrator
Telephone: 0121 414 4906
Email: p.k.chahal at bham.ac.uk

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Dr H A Allen
RCUK Research Fellow
Brain and Behavioural Sciences
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3601
Fax: +44 (0) 414 4897
Email: H.A.Allen at bham.ac.uk