Investigating how young brains process fast-paced screen media University of East London in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at Queen's University Belfast in children's awareness of mind wandering , metacognition, attention regulation, and cognitive development. This doctoral project will investigate how children develop awareness of their own attentional states, how they recognise moments of mind wandering, and how metacognitive awareness relates to learning and classroom focus. The research is grounded in Nelson and Narens’ model of metacognitive monitoring and control, and will explore how awareness...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Birmingham in the Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH), School of Psychology. The project, “Adapting to Other Minds: Bilingual Experience and Social Communication in the Ageing Brain,” investigates how lifelong bilingual experience shapes the neural mechanisms that support social communication and successful language comprehension in older adulthood. Research methods include fMRI and EEG , with a focus on brain networks supporting social cognitio...

Applications are open for the third cohort of PhD students at the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA), University of Cambridge. The opportunity is centered on research in trustworthy AI, human-AI collaboration, contextual safety evaluations, and the deployment of AI and agents in high-stakes settings. The poster also notes that co-supervision arrangements can be made with supervisors from across the university, and lists potential primary supervisors including Anna Korhonen,...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in reliable detection of cognitive and affective states from biomedical signals , with a strong focus on EEG , biomedical signal processing, time-series analysis, statistical modelling, and machine learning. The project investigates how temporal structure in biomedical recordings can bias analyses and inflate performance estimates, and it aims to develop more robust and reproducible methods for analysing biomedical data. You will work with real-wo...

Applications are now open for fully funded PhD opportunities at Northumbria University through the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Citizen-Centred Artificial Intelligence (CCAI) . This doctoral training opportunity focuses on Artificial Intelligence with an emphasis on how AI can better serve people, communities, and society. The post highlights a broad, interdisciplinary approach and welcomes applicants from a wide range of disciplines. You do not need to be an AI specialist to apply. Key ...