China Scholarship Council (CSC)

[Wolfson Marriott Graduate Scholarship covering course fees up to the home-fee rate plus a tax-free stipend at the UKRI rate (at least £22,460 annually), with support for research and conference attendance. Overseas-fee applicants must fund the difference in tuition fees.] DPhil Studentship at the University of Oxford in Psychiatry: Hormones, Prediction and Psychosis: How Reproductive Transitions Shape Belief Updating in the Brain . This funded doctorate explores why vulnerability to psychosis c...

[Fully funded studentships; stipend not less than £22,460 per annum (tax-free), plus support for conference attendance and consumables.] The University of Oxford Department invites applications for DPhil Studentships starting in October 2027. These fully funded doctoral studentships support research in internationally renowned programmes focused on the causes and treatments of psychiatric illness, spanning the translational spectrum. Projects may sit within any of the department’s research domai...

This PhD project investigates the psychological impact of AI-simulated deceased loved ones on the grief process. It examines how digitally generated representations of people who have died may affect bereavement, emotional wellbeing and mental health. The project is offered through the Midlands+ Mental Health and Neuroscience PhD Programme for Healthcare Professionals and is intended for clinicians. The topic connects digital technology for mental health with psychological and clinical research ...

PhD opportunity in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language at the University of Birmingham . The project, Keeping Up with Conversation: Bilingualism and the Resilient Ageing Brain , is co-supervised by Tamara Swaab , Andrea Krott , and Eleanor Huizeling . It sits at the intersection of language processing , bilingualism , prediction , attention , speech perception , gestures , and cognitive ageing . The student will investigate how younger and older adults use speech, visible speech, and gestures...

[Fully funded studentship covering course fees up to home fee level, plus a tax-free stipend at the UKRI standard rate of no less than £22,460 per annum, with additional support for research expenses and conference attendance.] This DPhil project in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Oxford explores how the timing and coordination of brain network activity shape human cognition. Based in the Department of Psychiatry, the studentship focuses on the neural dynamics that support flexible b...