The schools of Optometry and Vision Sciences, and Psychology at Cardiff University provide fully funded PhD studentships. Please draw your students’ attention to the two following opportunities; note the short deadline.
1) PhD in clinical visual psychophysics and neuroimaging
We invite applications to join a collaborative team of academics at Cardiff University (Dunn, Rushton, Redmond) and at University of Bristol (Clatworthy, consultant stroke neurologist) to investigate residual visual function in patients with hemianopia.
The expected start date is Oct 2017, and the deadline for applications is 28th February. This studentship is open to UK nationals or EU citizens.
Further details concerning the PhD position are available here:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/funding-and-fees/view/phd-in-visual-neurosciencemapping-residual-visual-function-in-hemianopia
Details on the research environment and Cardiff can be found here:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/optometry-vision-sciences
Informal enquiries are encouraged; please direct either to Dr Matt J Dunn (Dun...@cardiff.ac.uk) or Prof. Simon Rushton (Rush...@cardiff.ac.uk).
2) PhD in perceptual stability
We invite applications to work on a project to investigate perceptual stability.
The expected start date is Oct 2017, and the deadline for applications is 28th February. This studentship is open to UK nationals or EU citizens who have been resident
in the UK for at least 3 years prior to the start of the study.
Further details concerning the PhD position are available here:
http://psych.cf.ac.uk/degreeprogrammes/postgraduate/research/docs/School-Rushton.pdf
Details on the research environment and Cardiff can be found here:
http://psych.cf.ac.uk/degreeprogrammes/postgraduate/choosingcardiff.html
Informal enquiries are encouraged; please direct to Simon Rushton (Rush...@cardiff.ac.uk).