Fully Funded PhD in Bilingual Experience, Social Communication, and the Ageing Brain University of Birmingham in United Kingdom

The University of Reading School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences is inviting applications for a 3-year funded PhD starting in 2027. This opportunity is aimed at students interested in psychology , neuroscience , psycholinguistics , or clinical language science . Applicants are encouraged to contact and discuss their research idea with a potential supervisor before submitting their application. Application materials: a 500–700 word research proposal is required. Funding: the post sta...

Sendy Caffarra, Associate Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, is recruiting for new Postdoc and PhD positions in her lab in Italy. The positions are part of the new ERC Consolidator Grant READy , which will start on November 1 . The project focuses on how human brain structure and function interact within the reading circuitry , bringing together approaches from cognitive neuroscience , psycholinguistics , and neuroimaging . This is a strong fit for candidates interested in ...

PhD opportunity in pain neuroscience at Cardiff University This project, titled “Pain as neurobiological surprise: Using human brain imaging and animal studies to advance new concepts in persistent pain” , is hosted by Cardiff University (Cardiff School of Psychology) and supervised by Dr George Tackley and Dr Jennifer Davies. The research explores whether pain can be understood as a form of neurobiological surprise, signalling unexpected threat or damage. The project combines human neuroimaging...

PhD Research Fellow opportunity at the University of Oslo , Department of Psychology, in the Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC) . The project focuses on memory , task-based functional MRI (fMRI) , neuroimaging , and the neural mechanisms underlying age-related memory change . The fellow will work with a longitudinal dataset from the project Lifespan Memory Imaging , including encoding and retrieval scans, follow-up imaging 6–8 years later, and multimodal data such as DTI, ...

PhD opportunity in developing brain imaging at Cardiff University This funded PhD project, Mapping the Developing Brain: Linking Structure and Function through Imaging , is based at Cardiff University within the Cardiff School of Psychology and is supervised by Prof Mara Cercignani and Dr Marco Palombo. The project investigates how the brain develops during the first five years of life and how this development shapes thinking, language, and self-control. The research uses data from 300 children ...