PhD Studentship: Using sleep-based memory cues to support recovery from stressful memories University of Exeter in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at Cardiff University in the Cardiff School of Medicine on shared genetic architecture of neuropsychiatric disorders and novel brain biomarkers . The project sits in the area of imaging genetics and aims to improve the biological specificity of brain phenotypes by implementing novel methods for diffusion weighted imaging in a very large cohort, including UK Biobank data, using the unique Connectome scanner at CUBRIC . The research will generate novel MRI metrics closer to brain b...

Funded PhD project at the University of Bristol (School of Psychology and Neuroscience) on sleep, trauma processing, PTSD, emotional memory, and targeted memory reactivation (TMR) . The project explores how sleep contributes to emotional processing after trauma and whether TMR can be used as a novel intervention to improve outcomes. You will work on experimental trauma paradigms, including distressing video or virtual-reality-based stimuli, and combine them with conditioned auditory cues that ar...

Funded PhD project at the University of Bristol within the MRC GW4 BioMed Doctoral Training Partnership . This project focuses on HIV transmission and the impact of innovations in preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) , using mathematical modelling to study oral and injectable PrEP in the context of structural and behavioural complexity. The research will examine adherence, risk perception, behaviour-driven infectious disease dynamics, and the real-world policy impact of PrEP. Research theme: Populatio...

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 opportunity at Cardiff University in Chronic pain, sensory hypersensitivity and neurodiversity , hosted by the Cardiff School of Psychology and linked to the GW4 BioMed3 Doctoral Landscape Programme . This project explores why chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, dysmenorrhea and back pain are often associated with heightened sensitivity or aversion to everyday sensory input, and why chronic pain is more prevalent in neurodivergent people (including autistic and ADHD individuals). T...