PhD Opportunities in Neuropsychology in Australia

RMIT University in Melbourne is offering a grant-funded PhD opportunity focused on myelin repair and therapeutic design . The project will investigate how the brain builds and repairs myelin, the insulating material that supports efficient neural communication, and how therapeutic strategies might be designed to promote this repair. The doctoral researcher will work across the Fleiss and Holien labs and use a combination of knockout mouse models and in vitro systems . The research will examine t...

This fully funded PhD will investigate precision medicine for low back pain , with the aim of improving how healthcare decisions are made and identifying which treatments work best for particular patients. The project will combine causal inference and machine learning across nationwide health databases and clinical trial data. The student will develop research expertise in data-driven treatment evaluation, health data analytics and methods for understanding variation in treatment outcomes. Resea...

PhD scholarship opportunity at Flinders University , based in the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI): Sleep Health in Adelaide, Australia. The project is titled “Circadian light sensitivity as a mechanism for PTSD vulnerability” and is supported by a Wellcome-funded Mental Health Award (2024) . The research examines how light exposure at night , circadian rhythms , sleep disturbance , and sleep reactivity may contribute to PTSD vulnerability after potentially traumatic events...

IDEALAB is inviting applications for its next PhD cohort in the International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language And Brain. This is a fully funded joint doctoral programme with a shared curriculum and research training leading to a joint PhD degree. The advertised projects span language and brain research topics such as infant speech perception , aphasia treatment , reading neurocognition , and related experimental approaches. The programme is especially relevant for students inte...

Research Degree Opportunity at the University of Melbourne Project title: Next-generation gene therapy for retinitis pigmentosa . This project develops a next-generation gene replacement therapy for retinitis pigmentosa (RP) , a severe inherited retinal disease caused by loss-of-function mutations in a photoreceptor-specific gene. The research focuses on restoring gene function in degenerating photoreceptors and advancing a therapy for a recessive rod-cone dystrophy that currently has no approve...

PhD scholarship opportunity at Swinburne University of Technology for research in multimodal imaging for epilepsy surgery assessment . The project is based at the Hawthorn campus in Melbourne, Australia, within the Centre for Mental Health and Brain Sciences. This PhD focuses on improving the localisation of epileptogenic brain regions and refining non-invasive methods for identifying suitable epilepsy surgery candidates. The research is linked to an NHMRC Ideas Grant and involves advanced neuro...

PhD scholarship opportunity at Swinburne University of Technology for research in source imaging for drug-resistant epilepsy . The project is based at the Hawthorn campus in Melbourne and sits within the Centre for Mental Health and Brain Sciences. This PhD is linked to an NHMRC Ideas Grant focused on Non-invasive Dynamic 3D Phase-Velocity Field Imaging (PVFI) to improve epilepsy surgery eligibility and outcomes. The research combines neuroscience , neuroimaging , computational neuroscience , bi...

PhD opportunity in Take C.A.Re (Concussion Assessment and Recovery Research) at the University of Melbourne . This research degree project focuses on concussion , traumatic brain injury , post-concussion symptoms , and recovery in children and adults. The project is offered by the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences , Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, with the work location listed as Royal Children’s Hospital / Murdoch Childrens Research Institute . Supervision team: Pro...

Research Degree Opportunity: PhD in Early fetal neural markers for infants with congenital heart disease using advanced MRI This opportunity is offered by the Department of Paediatrics , Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne , with supervision from Prof Deanne Thompson (Principal Supervisor) and A/Prof Clare Whitehead (Internal Co-supervisor). The project investigates how fetal MRI can identify early neural markers linked to later neurodevelopmental impairme...