Leverhulme Trust

🎓 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...

[MRC-funded four-year studentship with UKRI-rate doctoral stipend (£21,805 per annum for 2026/27, updated yearly), UK/Home tuition fees, and additional research training and support funding of up to £5,000 per annum.] The University of Exeter is offering a PhD studentship titled “Translational models to predict emotional susceptibility to chronic pain” through the GW4 BioMed3 MRC Doctoral Landscape Programme . This is a competitively awarded, four-year funded PhD project within a wider set of up...

[Four-year MRC-funded studentship with UK/Home tuition fees, a Doctoral Stipend matching the UK Research Council National Minimum (£21,805 per annum for 2026/27, updated each year), and up to £5,000 per annum in additional research training and support funding.] The University of Exeter is offering a PhD Studentship through the GW4 BioMed3 Doctoral Landscape Programme , part of a major MRC-funded partnership supporting up to 18 studentships across biomedical disciplines. This studentship starts ...

Fully funded PhD studentship at the University of Kent in sport and exercise psychology , with a strong interdisciplinary focus on exercise physiology , physical activity behaviour change , and motivation . Project title: From Initiation to Maintenance: The Psychophysiological Mechanisms Underpinning Sustained Physical Activity The project will examine how people stay physically active over the long term, whether laboratory responses to exercise can predict adherence to community-based exercise ...

PhD studentship at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom on how sights become signals for learning . This project sits within the GW4 BioMed3 Doctoral Landscape Programme and focuses on neuroscience , especially how visual information is transformed into dopamine signals that shape motivation, action, and decision-making. The student will work with advanced methods including in vivo electrophysiology , fibre photometry , fast-scan cyclic voltammetry , targeted optogenetic stimulation , ...