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Doctoral Programme Brain & Mind

The doctoral programme offers high-quality doctoral training in the following fields of science: developmental neuroscience, synaptic transmission and neuronal networks, disorders of the nervous system, sensory and motor systems, neuroimmunology, neuroendocrine systems and sleep, cognition and behavior, and systems and computational neuroscience.

More than 20 new doctoral students are admitted each year. We're an international community, and the programme is multilingual: all teaching is in English and the everyday communication in research is in English. However, you can complete a degree in either Finnish, Swedish or English.

Want to know more? Visit our profile & activities page to learn more about the key research areas and activities in the programme.

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The Department of Cognitive Science offers a PhD program in Cognitive Science. This research-based, interdisciplinary program offers specialization in the fields of social cognition, cognitive development, and formal and biological models of perception and learning. Students may take courses in cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind, cognitive anthropology, visual perception and computational modeling. They receive practical research training in methods, experimental design and data analysis in the laboratories of departmental faculty members. As of 2023, we offer a PhD program of which standard duration is 4 years with fully funded stipends for 4 years.

As a doctoral researcher, you will be invited to join one of the labs of our department. These are:

Cognitive Development Center

Social Mind Center

               Social Mind and Body Lab

               Adaptive Cognition and Economics in Society

               Language Comprehension Lab

Center for Cognitive Computation

               Computational Learning and Memory Group

               Vision Lab

IMPORTANT :  Please note that starting in Academic Year 2021/22, teaching and reasearch for incoming and continuing Cognitive Science PhD students will be moved to Vienna, while some research activities remain in Budapest.

Graduate Program Director: Natalie Sebanz

• Gergely Csibra (cognitive development, cognitive neuroscience). Office hours by appointment.
• József Fiser (visual perception and cognition, biological and statistical learning). Office hours by appointment.
• György Gergely (infant cognition, developmental psychopathology). Office hours by appointment.
• Christophe Heintz (culture and cognition, scientific cognition, cognitive economics). Office hours:`Open Door Policy`. If not available, please write an email.
• Guenther Knoblich (experimental psychology, social cognition, thinking) . Office hours: `Open Door Policy`. If not available, please write an email.
• Natalie Sebanz (social cognition, social cognitive neuroscience). Office hours: `Open Door Policy`. If not available, please write an email.
• Ágnes M. Kovács (socio-cognitive development, theory of mind, perspective taking, abstract representations, bilingualism)
• Dan Sperber (culture and cognition, communication and language, evolution)
• Máté Lengyel [visiting professor] (computational neuroscience, cognitive modelling, probabilistic models, learning and memory) . Office hours by appointment.
• Ernő Téglás (cognitive development, infant social cognition, development of logical inferences). Office hours by appointment.
• Eva Wittenberg (language and cognition, event comprehension). Office hours by appointment.
• Azzurra Ruggeri (computational cognitive science)
• Jonathan Kominsky (infant cognition, mental representations). Office hours: 'Open door policy'. If unavailable, contact via email.

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Studentships

All PhD students are eligible to apply for full tuition waivers and full stipends from CEU. See for more information. A number of funding opportunities may also be available for pursuing doctoral research after the fully funded four-years CEU doctoral studenship.

Doctoral enrollment may continue up to a maximum of six years. Students admitted into CEU doctoral programs are eligible to receive the CEU Doctoral Fellowship for up to four years. Numerous additional funding opportunities exist, such as the Doctoral Research Support Grant Program, the Erasmus Mobility Scheme, and various research and travel funds. (Please note, DRSG and/or write up grants are not aplicable for the incoming cohort). For further information on financial aid for doctoral students available here.

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Please note: The terms and conditions for a possible doctoral application round in 2025 have not been finalized yet. (April 2024)

What you need to know about Admission:

To join the doctoral program of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain (an umbrella institution for 60 professorial mind-brain supervisors in the metropolitan Berlin area) is one very specific way to do your doctorate in Berlin, but not the only one. There are more doctoral programs in Berlin, and you can also find a supervisor without having to join a doctoral program like ours. It’s a slightly complicated system, and you will not be able to find the right path for yourself without reading up on it. As an introduction to the topic, please read on our website about Doctoral studies in Germany and FAQ Admission Mind & Brain and Facts About the School and Scholarships: General information .  

The Berlin School of Mind and Brain offers:

• A three-year interdisciplinary and structured doctoral program in English with a near-zero drop-out rate.
• Ample opportunities in research, education and training in one of Europe’s largest mind and brain research communities.
• A series of tailor-made, research-related courses (“teaching weeks”) on subjects relevant for interdisciplinary mind and brain research.
• A series of tailor-made scientific hard-skill and transferable-skill courses.
• Access to scientific networks, career development measures, personalized career advice and coaching.
• Assignment of at least two professorial thesis advisors – usually one from the brain sciences and one from the mind sciences, in order to ensure the interdisciplinary impact and support for your work.
• Regular meetings with leading international researchers at scientific meetings and international lecture series in Berlin.
• Research collaboration with master’s students of the two-track program “Mind and Brain”, and with postdoctoral researchers.
• Self-organized academic doctoral retreats.
• Access to travel funds for national and international conferences.
• Journal and methods clubs.
• Access to mentoring programs and coaching.

We do not offer:

• Training in psychotherapy - you will not be able to practice as a psychotherapist after completing our program!

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During your PhD appointment, which typically lasts three to four years, your primary focus will be conducting research for your doctoral dissertation. However, we also encourage you to engage in other activities such as taking courses offered by the PhD Training Programme, teaching undergraduate courses in the Departments of Social Sciences, and actively participating in the research community, both within PsyRes and at national and international levels.

Close-knit community

As a PhD student at PsyRes, you will be part of a vibrant community that values your growth and development. We offer coaching, training, and a strong PhD Community to support you throughout your doctoral journey. We encourage our students to publish their research early in their careers, enhancing their academic profiles and fostering their future career prospects.

Programme Groups

You will be assigned to a programme group where you will conduct your research and be immersed in a supportive and collaborative environment. We are excited about newly interest in pursuing a PhD at the University of Amsterdam and look forward to welcoming postgraduate students to our dynamic academic community at PsyRes.

The Brain and Cognition programme aims to gain understanding of cognitive phenomena based on neurobiological principles, and has a focus on using cognitive research to understand clinical phenomena and to develop assessment tools or interventions for specific patient groups. The focus is thus on both typical and atypical brain functioning and cognition. The group has a relatively large number of PhD students and therefore there is ample possibility for interaction with other PhD students, both for research purposes (e.g. asking questions about methods or complicated analysis) as well as for social purposes. Interaction with other members of the program group, i.e. post docs and staff members, is actively encouraged through weekly program group meetings in which plenary talks are given by members of the group from all levels.

There is a strong research-oriented atmosphere and new experimental projects are generally discussed in smaller group settings to foster discussion and collaboration. PhD students are supervised by at least two staff members (promotor and co-promotor) and often part of the Amsterdam Graduate Network, a network organization with PhD students from both the UvA and the VU (in case the PhD project is mostly on the nature of human cognition and its neural basis) by a graduate school of choice (in case the PhD project is in the domain of clinical neuropsychology).

Should you have any questions about pursuing a PhD in the Brain and Cognition group, please click on the link below.

PhD students in Clinical Psychology are always supervised by at least two staff members (promotor and co-promotor) and participate in the teaching programme of the School of Experimental Psychopathology (EPP).

Individual studies of PhD students are generally discussed in small group settings. In these meetings, not only their own studies are discussed, but also major articles in the field. Further, PhD students are encouraged to present their work on international conferences.

Should you have any questions about pursuing a PhD in Clinical Psychology, please click on the link below.

The research group consists tenured staff and about 50% PhD students and postdocs. PhD students are supervised by at least two staff members and become a member of a lab group in which research is discussed in a constructive atmosphere. The interaction between PhD students and other staff is encouraged actively which results in considerable cross-fertilization between several themes of the program.

PhD students and their supervisors prepare a training program at the start of the PhD project, which includes taking courses, for example those offered by research schools like EPP or IOPS. Although PhD students are recruited on the basis of a research proposal, students are encouraged actively to make an independent contribution, especially during the final stages of the project. The progress made by PhD students and postdocs is continuously monitored by their supervisors, and on a yearly basis by the research institute.

Should you have any questions about pursuing a PhD in Developmental Psychology, please click on the link below.

Many topics are initiated by PhD students, who fulfill an important role in our research culture. Fortunately, in the last years the number of PhD students increased due to NWO funding. Generally, PhD students are supervised by at least two staff members.

Each month plenary talks are held. The objective of the internal collaboration is to increase the quality and productivity of the group and to improve the unity of the research. Finally, PhD students participate in activities organised by the  Interuniversity Graduate School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics (IOPS) , the institute for the advanced dissertation training in psychometrics and sociometrics.

Should you have any questions about pursuing a PhD in Psychological Methods, please click on the link below.

The Social Psychology research group has a relatively large group of PhD students, which generates a research-oriented atmosphere. Individual experiments are generally discussed in small group settings; these discussions focus on design and measurement issues.

PhD’s are always supervised by at least two staff members and are encouraged to participate in the summer school of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP), and to present their work not only at international conferences but also in smaller scale, more informal, meetings such as those of ESCON (European Social Cognition Network) or CERE (Consortium of European Researchers on Emotions); and in incidental small group meetings sponsored by the EAESP (European Association of Experimental Social Psychology.

Should you have any questions about pursuing a PhD in Social Psychology, please click on the link below.

PhD students in Work and Organizational Psychology work in a cooperative, research-oriented environment and are specializing on various topics in W&O psychology. PhD-students in our group are always supervised by at least two staff members (promotor and co-promotor), with whom PhD-students together actively discuss research ideas and papers. PhD-students also participate in the Work and Organizational Psychology teaching programme in the Bachelor and Master.

Individual studies and papers of PhD students are often discussed in our monthly research meetings with a large section of the programma group. Further, PhD students are encouraged to present their work on international conferences. Finally, they become a member of the Dutch research school Kurt Lewin Institute (KLI), where they follow courses and meet PhD-students (and faculty) from all over the Netherlands.

Should you have any questions about pursuing a PhD in Work and Organizational Psychology, please click on the link below.

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Cognitive Psychology / Neuropsychology

Study psychology at postgraduate level and you become part of a diverse, dynamic and supportive community in which to research and learn. Cognition and neuroscience research at Kent focuses on visual cognition, attention and memory, and language and communication.

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• Duration 3 to 4 years full-time
• Start date September, January, May
• Location Canterbury

A PhD is a doctorate of philosophy based on mostly independent study. It is assessed formally on the basis of one piece of work, a dissertation (or thesis), that reports your original thought and research. You must also successfully complete all required training.

Choosing a topic

Although sometimes we have specific PhD research projects related to funding awards, most of our research students choose their own research topics. Once you have decided on the nature of your project, it is important to contact a staff member whose expertise matches your area of interest with a CV and research proposal to discuss your proposed project and potential supervisory arrangements.

You then work with your proposed supervisor on refining your research proposal which provides the starting point for your subsequent research.

Supervision

During your research, you are supported by your supervisory team, normally comprising one main supervisor and a secondary supervisor. Your will have agreed your main supervisor, based on their compatibility with your research interests, prior to registration. Typically, you have one formal meeting per month with your main supervisor to discuss your work and progress (bi-monthly for part-time students).

Through the Graduate School, you have access to training in research-specific and broader transferable skills, including academic writing, career management and presentation skills.

PhD students in receipt of a teaching studentship (GTA), must also complete the Associate Fellowship Scheme (AFS). The AFS registration period is one year.

The Statistics and Methodology module from our taught MSc programme is available for doctoral students who have not already completed an advanced statistics and methods course.

The School of Psychology

Kent's School of Psychology conducts both basic and applied research in several areas, and we are highly regarded as a leading European centre for postgraduate research. We have a strong international reputation in cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, forensic psychology and social psychology. This is complemented by our strengths in organisational psychology and political psychology.

PhD funding

Some of our PhD students are self-funded, and others are funded by grants or awards either from the School, the University, UK research councils or their countries of origin. The School has a strong track record of attracting ESRC research studentship funding, which involves partnerships with external organisations such as the Anne Frank Trust.

Everything you need to know.

Entry requirements, study support.

Before making your application, you are required to contact and confirm supervision with a staff member within the School of Psychology . Please note, if this is not completed and noted on your application, our admissions team will not be able to process your application until supervision is confirmed. 

A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with:

A. adequate level of academic achievement.

A final degree classification (grade average) of at least a 2.1 or Merit in the UK system (the second highest classification after First/Distinction). Results from institutions in other countries will be assessed individually according to this standard.

Your existing degree does not have to be in psychology as long as the statistics training requirement is met (please see below) and your proposed supervisor and the Director of Graduate Studies (Research) are satisfied with the suitability of your academic background. If it is in a different subject, or if it is not accredited by the British Psychological Society, please ask your academic referee to complete our  Pro-forma for graduate research programmes  and email it to  [email protected] .

b. Statistics and research methods training in the social sciences

This programme includes a one-year statistics sequence which you must normally pass in order to receive your award. The teaching assumes that you are familiar with the following topics:

• Means and standard deviations
• Distributions, hypothesis testing and statistical significance
• Correlation coefficients
• Variables and measurement

Therefore, your existing degree transcript should note that you have taken and passed a minimum of one term each in statistics and social science research methods courses (or two terms of a joint statistics and research methods course).

It is possible to be exempted from the statistics training at Kent if there is sufficient evidence that you have already completed equivalent training in a previous qualification.

All applicants are considered on an individual basis and additional qualifications, professional qualifications and relevant experience may also be taken into account when considering applications. 

Please see our International Student website for entry requirements by country  and other relevant information. Due to visa restrictions, students who require a student visa to study cannot study part-time unless undertaking a distance or blended-learning programme with no on-campus provision.

English language entry requirements

This course requires a Good level of English language, equivalent to B2 on CEFR.  

Details on how to meet this requirement can be found on our English Language requirements webpage . 

Examples:  

IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component 

PTE Academic 63 with a minimum of 59 in each sub-test 

A degree from a UK university 

A degree from a Majority English Speaking Country 

Need help with English?

Please note that if you are required to meet an English language condition, we offer a number of pre-sessional courses in English for Academic Purposes through Kent International Pathways .

Postgraduate research is a fantastic opportunity and significant investment in your future, enabling you to expand your knowledge, skills and career options – all while making a meaningful impact and contribution to an area you are passionate about.

At Kent, we also recognise the significant financial investment that comes with postgraduate study, and we offer a range of scholarships for our postgraduate researchers, to help keep your mind on your studies, and off your finances.

Scholarships can be broad, or specific to your situation, background or even country – so please do use our scholarships finder to discover the options available to you.

We also have research partnership funding with research councils and government schemes in specific areas of interest that can help you take your research to the next level with additional financial support.

Find out more on our fees and funding page and discover what option is right for you.

Postgraduate resources

The School has excellent facilities for both laboratory and field research, including advanced laboratory and teaching facilities. Resources include:

• three fully equipped colour video laboratories for face-to-face group research, together with ten satellite laboratories connected via remote-control CCTV and two-way audio links
• 58 research laboratories, all containing networked computers
• a further 80 PCs available exclusively to Psychology students, including a designated MSc computer-networked room providing full email and internet access
• shared offices and a personal, networked computer for research students
• a full range of computer-based experiment generators and productivity software installed on all the School’s systems
• an upgraded laboratory suite with equipment for digital sound and vision recording
• four Brain Vision EEG labs (including one for simultaneous TMS & EEG, and one portable EEG system)
• twp Trans-cranial direct current electrical stimulators (GVS, Magstim)
• Neuroconn tDCS/tACS electrical stimulator with facilities for simultaneous EEG
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) PowerMAG Research 100 High Frequency Stimulator
• two Tobii eye-trackers (Tobii X120 & Tobii T60 XL portable)
• one Arrington eye-tracker
• a suite equipped with Bio-Pac recorders to allow for a range of physiological measures to be taken during stressful and other tasks
• specialist laboratories equipped for face processing and vision research
• CRS ColorCal II Colorimeter/Photometer
• CRS Audiofile for synchronized audio-visual presentation
• numerous PC and Mac labs to run behavioural experiments
• Mirror Stereoscopes for dichoptic presentation and stereo vision research
• immersive virtual reality lab (including integrated eye-tracker)
• a social cognition laboratory
• creation in 2010 of the Kent Child Development Unit and research team focusing on how children learn about their world, about other people and about the language they hear around them.

Dynamic publishing culture

Staff publish regularly and widely in journals, conference proceedings and books. Among others, they have recently contributed to: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology ; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ; Child Development ; Clinical Psychology Review . Details of recently published books can be found within the staff research interests .

Researcher Development Programme

Kent's Graduate School co-ordinates the Researcher Development Programme for research students, which includes workshops focused on research, specialist and transferable skills. The programme is mapped to the national Researcher Development Framework and covers a diverse range of topics, including subject-specific research skills, research management, personal effectiveness, communication skills, networking and teamworking, and career management skills.

Research themes

The School of Psychology is highly regarded as a leading European centre for postgraduate research, with an international reputation for excellence in social psychology (including group processes and intergroup relations); cognition and neuroscience; developmental psychology; and forensic psychology. We have staff who can supervise research degrees in all of these areas plus organisational psychology and political psychology. The research environment is designed to sustain a strong, vibrant research culture, encourage collaboration, and unite staff and students with shared research interests. Our themes ensure critical mass and create a highly energetic and stimulating intellectual climate.

Research activity is supported by:

• centrally coordinated provision and use of laboratories and technical support
• selection of speakers for our weekly departmental research colloquia
• weekly research meetings within each theme
• developing, reporting and analysing research, and hosting our many visiting scholars
• several monthly small meeting series on specific areas of cross-cutting research (such as forensic, social development, emotion, social cognition and health).

Social Psychology

Our academics have received prestigious editorial appointments and both national and international awards. Many leading international social psychologists are affiliated with the group, reflecting the strong reputation of social psychology at Kent.

Our work is funded by a variety of British and international sources including the European Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, National Science Foundation, European Commission, Home Office, Department of Trade and Industry, Nuffield Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Our researchers also engage in consultancy work for businesses and the government.

Our research covers all areas of social psychology, including:

• prejudice and discrimination
• equality, identity, diversity and change
• justice and morality
• attitudes and decision making
• status, leadership and power
• conspiracies and social movements
• security and risk
• social influence
• personality
• culture and social interaction

Much of our research is coordinated through the  Centre for the Study of Group Processes .

Cognition and Neuroscience

Visual cognition, attention and memory.

Research on this topic focuses primarily on the role of vision and visual perception in human performance. The aim of this work is to identify the cognitive processes and neurological mechanisms that underlie various visual tasks. Studies with neurologically healthy volunteers examine issues such as:

• face recognition and identification
• eyewitness testimony
• person detection
• emotion processing
• episodic memory
• pattern and motion recognition.

Our research also examines a range of psychological disorders, including unilateral visual neglect, addiction, dementia and persistent vegetative state. We are interested in examining the cognitive nature of these disorders, which includes assessing attentional biases, visual experiences and neurological activity. Much of our work also has an applied motivation, for example helping to develop better therapies for people with brain injury.

Language and communication

Research in this group examines various aspects of semantic, pragmatic, morphological and syntactic understanding.

Research questions on adult populations include:

• the role of executive functions in successful language use and communication
• how language influences attentional processes and perspective taking
• anomaly detection in reading
• brain structural and functional correlates of grammatical processing.

Our work on developmental populations examines issues such as:

• how children learn to understand and produce sentences in their own language
• how children learn conversational conventions and self-repair
• developmental disorders of communication, including autism spectrum disorders and dyslexia
• bilingual language acquisition and processing.

This research group has links with researchers in the School of European Culture and Languages, as part of the  Centre for Language and Linguistics .

Forensic Psychology

Forensic psychology research at Kent and all forensic-related teaching operates through our Centre of Research and Education in Forensic Psychology (CORE-FP).

Forensic psychology seeks to understand:

• the psychological processes underlying offending behaviour (including group processes)
• the reduction and supervision of offending behaviour (i.e. rehabilitation, treatment and management of community risk)
• victim responses to offending
• the mechanisms underlying the criminal justice system more generally (i.e. jury decision making and the courts)
• attitudes to offenders and offender reintegration in society.

Our academics are represented in editorships and editorial boards of many major journals in forensic and applied psychology. Many are Chartered Forensic Psychologists who assess and treat offenders and evaluate offender rehabilitation programmes. Thus we have strong links with the UK Prison Service, the NHS, the Police, and other bodies involved in forensic related services and activities.

Our research is funded by various national and international sources, which include the British Academy, Economic and Social Research Council, the Home Office, Leverhulme, the Ministry of Justice and the Nuffield Foundation.

Areas of forensic psychology research that we are currently working on include:

• bullying in prisons
• prison gang behaviour
• jury decision-making
• child sexual offending
• rape proclivity
• female sexual offending
• theories of offender rehabilitation
• firesetting
• sexual harassment
• violence, aggression and alcohol
• infra-humanisation of offenders.

Other areas of research include social cognition, social and moral emotion, and group process theory, all of which are applied to the study of offending behaviour or court process issues.

Developmental Psychology

Our research interests include:

• how children learn to communicate
• social cognition (eg Theory of Mind)
• peer interactions
• understanding prejudice
• infant cognitive development
• developmental psychopathology (eg Autism)
• conversation analysis

We have excellent links with the wider community. Members of the Developmental Psychology group are committed to sharing their research findings and methodologies with the public. We hold highly successful large-scale events that bring together practitioners, policy makers, and academics to share knowledge and develop collaborations. Our outreach events are typically interactive, fun, and informative. They range from ‘Play and Learn’ days for young families, to workshops for school children on topical issues such as cyberbullying and happiness.

A central hub for our research and outreach activity is the  Kent Child Development Unit .

The School of Psychology currently includes two formally constituted research centres, representing areas of concentration and excellence in research.

Centre for the Study of Group Processes

The Centre includes a thriving international research community, involving twelve tenured academic staff, as well as its research fellows and PhD students. The Centre attracts visits and research collaborations from major international researchers, many of whom have formal affiliations with the Centre.

Over the years, CSGP has attracted substantial externally funded research on a wide range of topics. It has also recruited excellent MSc and PhD students and its members teach for the School’s MSc degrees in Social and Applied Psychology, Political Psychology and Organisational and Business Psychology. The Centre also edits an international journal,  Group Processes and Intergroup Relations  (Sage Publications).

Centre of Research and Education in Forensic Psychology

The Centre of Research and Education in Forensic Psychology strives to be the leader in research that informs practice and policy. The vast range of topics covered by the centre staff is indicative of the centre’s facilitative research culture. As a result, members of the centre team have been the beneficiaries of research funding for new and innovative research.

Staff research interests

Kent’s world-class academics provide research students with excellent supervision. The academic staff in this school and their research interests are shown below. You are strongly encouraged to contact the school to discuss your proposed research and potential supervision prior to making an application. Please note, it is possible for students to be supervised by a member of academic staff from any of Kent’s schools, providing their expertise matches your research interests. Use our ‘ find a supervisor ’ search to search by staff member or keyword.

Full details of staff research interests can be found on the School's website .

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Fully funded phd and masters opportunities in paris.

The Department of Cognitive Studies (DEC) at Ecole Normale Supérieure is inviting applications for its graduate programs in cognitive science. Our training offer includes: a fully-funded 5-year PhD program and a fully-funded extended 3-year Masters program (which can be followed by a 3-year doctoral grant at ENS or elsewhere in France, conditioned on a mid-term evaluation). Application deadline: early December 2020 - please find more details below.

PhD Program:

We offer a fully-funded 5-year PhD Program in most subfields of cognitive science (including Linguistics, Philosophy, Cognitive Social Science, Psychology, Neuroscience, Modeling). Unlike most PhD programs in Europe, and at the image of PhD programs in North-America, admission in this program does not require an MA-level degree. The PhD program combines a taught component drawing mainly from our Master in Cognitive Science with multiple lab rotations.

Deadline for applications: December 17, 2020 23:59 (Central European Time)

More information on the website:  https://graduateschool.dec.ens.fr/

The PhD program is funded by French government grant Frontiers in Cognition.

Fully-funded extended Masters fellowships for international students:

We offer paid three-year fellowships to international students interested in joining our Master in Cognitive Science, which offers interdisciplinary training in Linguistics, Philosophy, Cognitive Social Science, Psychology, Neuroscience, Modeling and Cognitive engineering ( https://cogmaster.ens.psl.eu/en ). Students can then pursue a fully-funded PhD at ENS or elsewhere in France, conditioned on a mid-term evaluation.

Deadline for applications: Science track: December 9, 2020   23:59 (Central European Time) Humanities track: December 29, 2020   23:59 (Central European Time)

More information on the website:  https://cognition.ens.fr/fr/admissions-bourses/etudiants-etrangers-646  

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Fully funded 5-year PhD in Cognitive Science at ENS in Paris

The Department of Cognitive Studies (DEC) at Ecole Normale Supérieure is inviting applications for its graduate programs in cognitive science. Our training offer includes: a fully-funded 5-year PhD program and a fully-funded extended 3-year Masters program (which can be followed by a 3-year doctoral grant at ENS or elsewhere in France, conditioned on a mid-term evaluation).

Application deadline: early December 2019 - please find more details below.

PhD Program

We offer a fully-funded 5-year PhD Program in most subfields of cognitive science (including Linguistics, Philosophy, Cognitive Social Science, Psychology, Neuroscience, Modeling). Unlike most PhD programs in Europe, and at the image of PhD programs in North-America, admission in this program does not require an MA-level degree. The PhD program combines a taught component drawing mainly from our Master in Cognitive Science with multiple lab rotations

Deadline for applications: December 10, 2019 23:59 (Central European Time)

More information on the website: https://graduateschool.dec.ens.fr/

The PhD program is funded by French government grant Frontiers in Cognition.

Fully-funded extended Masters fellowships for international students

We offer paid three-year fellowships to international students interested in joining our Master in Cognitive Science, which offers interdisciplinary training in Linguistics, Philosophy, Cognitive Social Science, Psychology, Neuroscience, Modeling and Cognitive engineering ( https://cogmaster.ens.psl.eu/en ). Students can then pursue a fully-funded PhD at ENS or elsewhere in France, conditioned on a mid-term evaluation.

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Science track: December 15, 2019 Humanities track: November 29, 2019

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We are delighted that you are thinking of applying for a PhD at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. The decision to undertake a PhD is a momentous one that should not to be taken lightly. There are many  good and bad reasons  for doing a PhD. We hope that the information below will help you with your decision.

If you are fascinated by cognitive neuroscience and want to pursue a career in research, you may wish to consider doing a PhD after your undergraduate or MSc degree. A PhD would demonstrate an ability to conduct out scientific research.  It is required for an academic career and desirable for many non-university research positions.

The principal benefit of doing a PhD is the satisfaction of pushing yourself and showing that you are capable of producing world-class research.  As well as becoming an expert in a particular area of cognitive neuroscience, you will develop excellent oral and written communication skills, enhance your critical thinking and problem solving abilities, and make friendships that may endure throughout your life.

A full-time PhD requires a 3-4 year time commitment during which you are dedicated to your research.  This is likely to involve long hours, poor pay (or even going into debt), and many worries: Is my chosen topic suitable for a PhD project?  Am I on the right course?  Am I making sufficient progress? What are my job prospects afterwards?  Surprisingly, most students find that despite the support of their supervisor, lab colleagues, and fellow PhD students, doing a PhD can be a lonely experience when responsibility for the work  ultimately comes down to you.

You would spend 3 years conducting research on your chosen topic, supervised my a member of staff. This ultimately results in a PhD thesis. During your PhD you also take postgraduate courses, attend research talks, and benefit from the exciting intellectual climate at UCL.

The ICN has a large and active community of PhD students. We are an interdisciplinary Institute situated within the  School of Life and Medical Sciences  at UCL. Faculty at the ICN are drawn from many different research divisions and departments, including the  Division of Psychology & Language Sciences , the  Institute of Neurology  and the  Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging .

Before applying for a PhD, you need to decide on a topic. This might be something you have already developed an interest in one during your BA or MSc degree. Alternatively, you may want to get some ideas by taking a look at the  research conducted by our academic staff .

Once you have checked that you would be  eligible , and thought of a general idea, please contact the relevant member of academic staff to discuss possible topics. If you have decided on a topic,  find out how to apply  to do a PhD at the ICN.

Entry requirements and funding

If you want to undertake a PhD degree at the ICN, there are a few things that you need to think about. Normally you need a minimum of an upper second-class UK Bachelor’s degree or a taught UK Master’s degree, or the overseas equivalent, in a relevant subject. Overseas applicants also need to satisfy the  English language requirements .

Closing date for applications: 8 January 2024 . You need to contact a potential supervisor well before this date so that you can prepare the research proposal that is required as part of the application process. Applications after this date are possible until 31 July (assuming a September start date), however they cannot be considered for the funding opportunities that we offer.

Being offered a place at the ICN does not guarantee funding. You should discuss relevant options with your supervisor. Funding may be obtained by  application through the ICN  or by applying directly to  funding schemes outside the ICN . Some of the schemes below only cover fees at the UK rate (which includes EU-nationals with 'settled' or 'pre-settled' status), some only cover fees at the International rate, and some are open to students with either fee status. You can find further information about fee status  here . If you are not sure of your fee status you should discuss this with your supervisor.

The ICN is a central part of UCL Neuroscience, so we are able to offer a range of potential PhD funding opportunities (see below). Some are associated with specific divisions and research departments, while others are broader-based programmes of study. Please check with your potential supervisor which sources of funding you may be eligible for.

• ESRC UCL, Bloomsbury and East London DTP  (NB requires a separate preliminary application to be submitted to the ESRC by 15 January 2024 )
• Career Development Demonstratorships
• UCL Research Excellence Scholarship
• UCL Research Opportunity Scholarship

Apart from the ESRC DTP, which requires a separate preliminary application to be submitted by 15 Janury 2024, nominations for these funding opportunities are made by the ICN graduate tuturs following the interviews which are expected to be held on 16-18 January 2024. You do not need to apply directly yourself.

Occasionally, Group Leaders may have positions available as part of a grant they hold, or through specific studentship awards direct to them (e.g. industrial collaborations). You should check with your potential supervisor whether any such positions are available.

Don't have a Masters degree?

It is possible to be accepted onto a PhD programme even without a Masters degree. A potential supervisor may decide to accept you directly onto a programme if you are able to demonstrate a sufficient level of knowledge and skills.

Alternatively, you may apply for a  "1+3" programme , in which you complete a masters degree before moving directly into the PhD programme. Each programme requires different levels of pre-planning, and students are encouraged to think about potential supervisors for the PhD component, which starts in the second year, before starting out. These programs are particularly useful for students who are moving into Psychology-related research from other fields, and those who do not have substantial previous research experience. Please consult the funding bodies listed on this page and elsewhere to see if a 1+3 programme is available.

Other sources of funding you may wish to consider.  Applicants must apply for these independent of the ICN application procedure . These schemes have their own requirements and deadlines, please visit the links below for relevant information.

• W ellcome 4-year PhD in Mental Health Science
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• UCL-NIMH Joint Doctoral Training Program in Neuroscience  (US citizens and permanent residents)
• UCL-Birkbeck MRC DTP

Please contact the Postgraduate Tutors at the ICN, Professor Sam Gilbert  and  Professor Antonia Hamilton  if you require any further information.

How to apply

Before you start the application process you should check that you satisfy the  UCL entry requirements .

You’ll need to find a member of staff who can act as supervisor and is willing to do so. To find a potential supervisor you should check this  list of our research staff , which describes the research carried out by each group. If you find someone who may be appropriate you should send them an email to ask if they are currently accepting PhD students. You should include some information about yourself (e.g. a brief CV), a statement of why you have approached them, and if possible a brief explanation of possible reseach topics that would interest you (this does not need to be extensive at all, it is not a full research proposal). If you have any ideas about funding opportunities you can mention this well, but this is not essential.

Most people respond fairly quickly to email requests of this sort but this is just the first of many steps.  You will need to discuss your proposal in depth with your supervisor and agree a plan for your PhD.  You will then need to prepare a formal, written PhD proposal which your supervisor will have to approve before it is submitted.

• Please note that your completed application will require the name of your prospective supervisor and a brief research proposal, otherwise it will be considered incomplete. When submitting your application please keep the application deadlines in mind.
• The department will need time to process your application.  Please submit your application 3-4 days before deadline(s) to avoid delays.
• Please ensure that you apply for a place to study for a Research Degree in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, otherwise the department will not be able to view your application.
• Please make sure that your referees are aware and willing to provide a reference in the given time frame. Your application will not be received by the department until both references have been submitted.

You will receive notification about whether you will be invited to interview for a PhD position.  If possible, these are done in person at the department. However, they can be done remotely via Zoom if necessary.  Interview results are usually announced informally shortly afterwards, and followed-up with a more formal letter from the UCL Doctoral School early in the new year. If you are accepted for admission, the program begins at the end of September.

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Do you have any questions about our  MSc/MRes or PhD programmes ? Contact Safia Chaudhary in the Cognitive Neuroscience office for more information.

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For academic queries about the PhD programme, contact the Postgraduate Tutors at the ICN: Professor Sam Gilbert ( [email protected] ) or Professor Antonia Hamilton ( [email protected] ).

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Domains: Motivation, Emotion and Behaviour, Neurodegenerative Disorders and Pathological Aging, Neurogenesis and Development, Sensory Systems

Subdomains: Development of neural systems, Developmental disorders, Human studies, Language and communication, Learning and memory, Multisensory integration, Social cognition and behavior

Cognitive Neuroscience arose from the interdisciplinary venture of such different areas as cognitive psychology, neurophysiology, linguistics, clinical neuropsychology, among others, and the technological advances in the field of neuroimaging and computation. This interdisciplinary venture aims to discover the brain mechanisms that underlie psychological processes, such as language.

The objective of the programme is to train researchers in the area of Cognitive Neuroscience with the purpose of making progress in frontier research and to transfer knowledge to the areas of Health and Education. Particular attention will be paid to interdisciplinary theoretical training and to advanced neuroimaging techniques.

The programme involves several research teams working on the following topics: Language and reading; Neurobiology of multilingualism; Neurodegeneration and language disorders; and Advanced methods in Cognitive Neuroscience.

Participation in a prior BCBL (Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain & Language) selection process is compulsory. Further information on the documents to provide and deadlines at: https://www.bcbl.eu/en/study-with-us/doctoral-program-cognitive-neuroscience

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In line with the inherently interdisciplinary nature of cognitive-neuroscience research, Munich is uniquely placed to bring together the critical mass required for larger-scale multidisciplinary research initiatives, in our case: a research-oriented master program. The M.Sc. in „Neuro-Cognitive Psychology“ greatly benefits from being embedded within the wider Munich neuroscience network, offering cutting-edge techniques, such as a recently established research-dedicated 3T MRT laboratory (jointly organized by the Department of Psychology, with the Institute of Psychiatry, and the Munich Center for NeuroSciences – Brain & Mind ). One particularly relevant hub in this context is the Munich Center for NeuroSciences – Brain & Mind of LMU Munich (MCNLMU). The MCNLMU provides a forum for the broader neurosciences in the Munich area (most NCP lecturers are members; H.J. Müller and T. Geyer are board members), organizing a high-level neuroscience colloquium series and, importantly, running the Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences (GSNLMU), the first (Excellence- funded) graduate school at LMU Munich.

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The Department of Cognitive Science PhD program’s primary goal is to train a new generation of cognitive scientists who can meld multiple existing disciplines into a new, genuinely integrated science of the mind/brain.

A secondary goal is to train graduates who are competitive for positions in traditional disciplinary departments at research universities. Because many of the most exciting research developments recognized within the related traditional disciplines arise through interdisciplinary research, the training in cognitive science offered by our department can promote a graduate’s attractiveness as a candidate for positions in a variety of departments.

For example, a student who is studying language processing in normal and brain-damaged subjects, and is trained in the methods of both cognitive neuropsychology and neuroimaging, with a solid foundation in theoretical linguistics and additional coursework in psychology or neuroscience, is potentially employable in a number of departments. A student with in-depth training in theoretical phonology, a solid background in computational and psychological approaches to phonological research, and ancillary training in other branches of linguistics is well positioned to conduct state-of-the-art research and teaching valuable for both a linguistics department and a cognitive science program.

The training we offer in cognitive science is highly interdisciplinary, strongly theoretically oriented, and integrated to an extent only possible within a department of cognitive science.

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The interdisciplinary training provided to all PhD students includes:

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• In-depth interdisciplinary training in an area of expertise, with ancillary preparation for a faculty position in a traditional discipline.

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In addition, PhD students are provided extensive experience integrating the theory and methods of diverse cognitive sub-disciplines through specially designed integrative courses and regular seminars involving the entire department.

Our program can offer such a breadth and depth of training because, unlike departments in the allied disciplines, in a department of cognitive science, 100% of graduate training can be focused on cognition. Integrated training across the spectrum of cognitive methods allows students to emerge from graduate school as professional cognitive scientists.

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