PhD Opportunities in Neuropsychology in United Kingdom

The International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems at The University of Manchester is offering a PhD project on neuromorphic systems for low-latency and efficient multimodal processing, with a particular focus on speech and language technologies. Working with Luca Peres, Oliver Rhodes, and Patrycja Strycharczuk , the doctoral researcher will investigate how brain-inspired computing approaches can transform the way machines process and understand speech. The project combines neuromorphic audio and...

King’s College London is offering a research assistant position with a pathway into doctoral research on predicting the onset of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children and young people. The project is based in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry within the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience and is connected to the King’s Maudsley Partnership for Children and Young People. Supported by a Wellcome Trust-funded programme, the doctoral research will bring toget...

[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...

[£21,805 per annum stipend for 2026/7, plus fees coverage.] PhD studentship at the University of Exeter on Explainable AI for Early Dementia Detection and Deployment . The project develops explainable, trustworthy machine-learning methods for the early detection of cognitive decline and dementia. It brings together multimodal data including cognitive assessments, neuroimaging (such as MRI and PET), genetics, lifestyle factors, comorbidities, blood biomarkers, and clinical notes. Data sources men...

[Fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter: The emotional basis of behaviour This PhD studentship explores a fundamental question in evolutionary biology and behavioural science: why might evolution favour emotion-based decision-making systems rather than purely rational, stimulus-driven responses? The project investigates the idea that emotions and mood states may function as physiological memory of past experience, helping organisms make ...

[Fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter: Computer vision to predict falls from everyday movement in older adults . This project addresses an important clinical problem: falls are a major cause of injury-related hospital admission and death among older adults, yet current risk assessment methods are limited because they usually rely on brief one-off clinical tests. The project will use real-world-inspired movement data collected in the ST...

[Funding includes fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] This PhD studentship at the University of Exeter focuses on developing digital movement biomarkers to detect depression, anxiety, and fatigue in older adults, including people living with and without multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs) . The project sits at the intersection of computer vision , artificial intelligence , functional movement analysis , and health research , with the goal of creating scalable, objective tools...

[Fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7; funded by EPSRC.] PhD studentship at the University of Exeter on virtual brain networks to guide deep brain stimulation in childhood epilepsy . This project addresses a major clinical challenge: many children with epilepsy continue to have seizures despite medication, and for those who are not helped by conventional surgery, implanted electrical stimulation can be one of the few remaining options. However, outcomes vary widely and there is st...

[Home tuition fees plus a Doctoral Stipend for up to 4 years.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter in functional genomic approaches to convergent mechanisms in chromatinopathies . This project explores a major unmet medical need in rare genetic disease research: understanding whether several chromatinopathies share overlapping molecular mechanisms that could be targeted by the same drug treatment. Chromatinopathies are caused by variants in genes involved in chromatin remodelling and are...