Psychology
The Department of Psychology obtained the highest rating of 5 in the last Research Assessment Exercise and has over thirty members of academic staff and excellent research facilities. The Departmental PhD programme is described on the website (http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/web/postgrads/). The Reid studentship is available for three years (full-time) and includes a stipend of £13, 250 p.a. (including fees for UK and EU students). Please note that applicants from overseas should check details of the tuition fees that are not covered by this award http://www.rhul.ac.uk/graduate-school/pages/fees.html).
Members of academic staff are interested in supervising PhDs in the following broad areas of psychology:
Adult and Child Cognition
(http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/web/research/acc_home.asp)
• Conversations and peer relations in childhood
• Positive and negative cognitions and subjective well-being
• Developmental processes in word reading
• Brain imaging during the experience of pain
• Visual observation and action planning in children with Dyspraxia
Brain and Behaviour
(http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/web/research/bab_home.asp)
• Investigating target selection using cortical stimulation
• Functional brain imaging of optic flow and egomotion
• Visual attention in the Aging driver
• Road crossing errors in children with Dyspraxia
• Temporal & spatial errors amongst elderly pedestrians
• Investigating the sensorimotor basis of self-recognition
• Psychophysics and computational modeling of visual illusions
Clinical, Health and Social Psychology
(http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/web/research/chs_home.asp)
• Social-psychological aspects of Islamophobic prejudice
• National identity amongst British ethnic minorities
• Paranoia in the Normal Population
• Predictors of monetary donations following humanitarian disasters
• Essentialist beliefs and group-based guilt
• Predictors of negative attitudes towards asylum seekers
• Quality of life measures in diabetes and following transplant operations
More specific project topics and a list of potential PhD supervisors can be found at: (http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/web/Vacancies/vacancy_detail.asp?id=16) along with further details of how to apply. Applicants should contact potential supervisors via e-mail before submitting an application. Successful candidates will have an undergraduate and/or masters degree in Psychology or related discipline and successful candidates will need to be able to satisfy normal RHUL admission requirements.
Please direct any remaining queries to:
Professor Bernice Andrews (b.andrews@rhul.ac.uk) (Deputy Director of Graduate Studies) and Carol Blackman (carol.blackman@rhul.ac.uk) (Dept. secretary) in the first instance.
Closing Date: 15th September 2008
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