The following award is offered for uptake in October 2008. The successful candidate will receive a stipend and fee-waiver for the first year of their studies and, subject to successful academic progress reviews and successful interviews with the relevant Heads of Department, will be employed as Graduate Teaching/Research Assistants in their second and third years.
The applicant should hold at least a good Honours degree (2:1 or above) in a relevant discipline and a Masters degree, which included research training.
The award is offered in the following topic:
• Studentship 3: The application of the STI as a clinical research tool.
This studentship is based in the Speech and Language Therapy Division in the Dept. of Educational and Professional Studies. The project will be supervised by experts in the clinical field (Dr. Lowit) as well as in research methods (Dr. Karagiannidou), and will involve some collaboration with other institutions to provide the student with as wide a research experience as possible. The project involves investigations of clinical populations with speech disorders (e.g. Parkinson's Disease, Ataxia, etc.) with regard to performance variability, as measured by the spatio-temporal variability index (STI). The investigation is aimed at providing further information on speech motor planning in disordered speech and at establishing the usefulness of the STI in reflecting clinical issues such as severity, performance change, treatment efficacy or differences in underlying pathology. The studentship is suited to someone with a background in phonetics, speech and language therapy, or psychology and an aptitude in computing (acquisition of specific skills in acoustic analysis and data evaluation will be part of the PhD training).
If this opportunity is of interest to you, please get in touch with Dr Anja Lowit (a.lowit@strath.ac.uk) to discuss the project further.
For application form, please contact the Faculty of Education Research Office, University of Strathclyde, Southbrae Dr, Glasgow G13 1PP: faculty.research@strath.ac.uk by Monday 21st April 2008.
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