PhD Opportunities in Psychology in Canada

Killam Research Fellowships provide support to scholars of exceptional ability for major research projects with broad significance and widespread interest. The scheme is designed to give recipients time to pursue advanced research across a wide disciplinary range. The fellowship is open to work in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences, engineering, and interdisciplinary studies that link these fields. It is therefore suited to researchers developing ambitious project...

Simon Fraser University is inviting applications to its research-focused PhD programme in Linguistics for the Fall 2027 intake in Canada. The programme is designed for scholars pursuing advanced research on how language is structured, acquired, used and varied across communities. Potential research directions include language acquisition and cognition , linguistic diversity and variation, meaning and language use, phonetics and phonology, linguistic theory, and computational approaches to langua...

PhD opportunity at the Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre (MBMC) for a prospective doctoral student contributing to the MOTIVATOR Program, a pan-Canadian study of behaviour change communication training for physicians, nurses, and allied healthcare providers involved in chronic disease management. The PhD research may include behavioural intervention development and design; delivery and assessment of behaviour change communication skills and training programs; behavioural trial methods and rep...

Université Laval in Québec City, Canada, is offering a fully funded PhD position in Anthropology focused on living with cochlear implants , sensory experience, neurotechnologies, and evidence. The project is part of the CIHR-funded Deafnesses project and is supervised by Professor Stephanie Lloyd in the Department of Anthropology. The research examines how people experience and live with cochlear implants, with attention to sensory experience, deafness, clinical contexts, and the broader implica...

PhD opportunity in human-centered AI for healthcare at Polytechnique Montréal with McGill University , working on MARVIN , a conversational AI co-designed with patients and clinicians to support HIV self-management . The project focuses on building and evaluating new AI methods that work beyond the lab in real-world care settings. Research directions include LLMs and conversational AI, context-aware and adaptive AI, emotion and stigma in care, and AI reliability, safety, and human-centered evalu...

Funded PhD opportunity in NeuroAI and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Toronto , in Y. Helena Liu’s incoming research group and the Department of Psychology (AI for Psychological Sciences). This opening is aimed at students interested in interdisciplinary research spanning neuroscience, psychology, computer science, statistics, mathematics, physics, and engineering. The post highlights that applicants from these fields are welcome, and that scientific programming experience plus b...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in Parkinson's disease and bone health at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus) , Canada. The project is associated with the Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management in the Faculty of Medicine and is supervised by Dr. Sarah Purcell and Dr. Daryl Wile . Relevant academic areas include medical science , neuroscience , nutrition , kinesiology , exercise science , public health , and chronic disease prevention. The post specifically highlights ...

Kelly Babchishin at Carleton University is recruiting a PhD student for the Sexually Harmful Behaviours Research Lab starting in Fall 2027 . This is an experimental, research-based PhD for students interested in forensic psychology , sexual offending , prevention , and rigorous research with real-world impact. Institution: Carleton University Field: Psychology / Forensic Psychology Degree: PhD Application timing: Applications are due in January (exact date not specified in the post). Interested ...

PhD opportunity at the Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre (MBMC) in AI-driven digital health behaviour change (EVO+) . The project aims to develop an AI-enabled digital health behaviour change program to improve behavioural risk factors linked to non-communicable chronic diseases. The selected PhD student will contribute to project planning and setup, intervention development, data capture and analysis, machine learning and deep learning algorithm development, user experience improvements, and...