Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Doctoral Training Programme

Fully Funded Studentship Opportunities

Among the 200 scientific projects on offer through this fully funded doctoral training programme, Psychology will be offering some exciting PhD projects for autumn 2020 start. Students take 2 rotations on different projects in year 1 before selecting one to continue. To find out more information please follow this link: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/bbdtp/our-research-areas/our-research-areas.aspx

Psychology projects for September 2020 entry:

• Pause for thought: Corticostriatal dopamine and the inhibitory modulation of associative learning
• Investigating the role of APOE-e4 in structural and functional changes to neuromodulatory brain nuclei
• Hippocampo-prefrontal-subcortical circuit in cognition and behaviour
• Evaluating the effect of training on pupillometry, EEG, and performance on a naturalistic driving task
• The effects of physical activity and social enrichment on healthy brain ageing.
• Why does the human retina have a cone-enriched rim?
• Recruiting functional brain networks to improve sight after stroke
• The role of circadian clock genes in cognition
• Hetero-synaptic plasticity in health and disease
• Substrates of Recognition Memory in Mice
• Integrating human single neuron spiking and oscillations

How to apply

For further details and how to apply please follow this link: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/bbdtp/apply/how-to-apply.aspx