PhD Studentship

Fully funded PhD positions are open at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany , through the Max Planck School of Cognition . The call is aimed at highly motivated and talented candidates from around the world who want to work in cognition , computer science , and related areas of neuroscience and cognitive science . The program offers world-class training for early-career scientists, access to leading universities and research institutes across Germany, and pe...

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 PhD opportunity in Neuroscience at the University of Sussex (UK) through the Sussex Neuroscience 4-Year PhD Programme. This call is aimed at students interested in motor control , neural circuits , movement disorders , and the biological mechanisms underlying movement. The programme offers up to four funded places for September 2027 entry. Funding: full tuition fees are covered, including international tuition, plus a maintenance stipend of £21,805 per year at the 2026/27 UKRI rate....

🎓 Fully funded PhD opportunity at University College London (UCL) in the Learning Brain Lab through the UBEL Doctoral Training Partnership . This opening is aligned with developmental neuroscience , cognitive neuroscience , and educational neuroscience , with a strong focus on learning and brain research. The studentship is described as fully funded and includes tuition fees plus an annual maintenance stipend . Eligibility: both home applicants and international applicants may apply. Home applic...

PhD Studentship in Robust Bayesian Experimental Design and Inference at the University of Birmingham , United Kingdom. This project sits in statistics/data science and focuses on Bayesian methods , experimental design , inference , and uncertainty quantification . The research asks how violations of core assumptions affect Bayesian methods and how to develop methods that mitigate those effects. There is a particular emphasis on applications in psychology , cognitive science , and computer scienc...