Monday, June 29, 2009

Come and work in our lab: PhD studentships

Would you like to come and work in Visual Cognition? Would you like to be part of John Henderson's great research lab and learn how to investigate static, dynamic, and film cognition using eye tracking?

Well we now have funded PhD studentships available.

Details below:

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY AND LANGUAGE SCIENCES

PPLS (PSYCHOLOGY) CAREER DEVELOPMENT STUDENTSHIPS
Deadline for Application: Friday 10th July 2009

A minimum of four Career Development Studentships are offered by Psychology within the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Career Development Studentships are designed to provide students with teaching
experience, training, and other career development opportunities. A stipend of £10,000 per
annum will be provided in addition to tuition fees at the Home/EU level and additional
programme costs of £600 per annum. The studentships will start in September 2009.

Further information on the topics/research areas are available online at:
http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/CareerDevStudentship.html
Eligibility
Candidates should have an academic background in Psychology holding (or expecting to hold
by September 09) a postgraduate Masters level qualification or equivalent and be eligible to
apply for PhD level study at the University of Edinburgh. Students entering the second year
of their PhD Psychology study at the University of Edinburgh are also encouraged to apply.

Both International and Home/EU students are eligible to apply although please note that the
tuition fees provided in the studentship are at a Home/EU level only.

Application Procedure
Candidates are invited to apply through the University of Edinburgh online application system
(EUCLID); please ensure that you note your intention to apply for this studentship under the
funding section of the application form. When you submit your application, please also email
pplspg@ed.ac.uk to indicate that you have done so.

The application form and further guidance is available online at:
http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/CareerDevStudentship.html
If you have already submitted an application for PhD Psychology and would like to be
considered for these studentships, please email pplspg@ed.ac.uk to register your interest.

Deadline for application: Friday 10th July 2009
Selection Process
Short listed candidates will be invited to attend an interview at the University of Edinburgh. Successful candidates will be informed by Friday 14th August 2009