Closing date for applications: 27 February 2009

The Department will be offering one ESRC 1+3 quota studentship and up to four fully funded teaching studentships commencing in October 2009, in Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, History of Psychology, Forensic/Investigative Psychology or Neuroscience.

All of our academic staff are research active, and welcome the opportunity to supervise suitably qualified doctoral students. Informal enquiries about research topics can be directed to any member of staff prior to application, using the contact details on their departmental web page. Details of our research expertise can be found at: http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/research/

The studentships will cover Home (UK/EU) fees, plus a stipend equivalent to current Research Council grants, for up to three years. For the teaching studentships, the successful applicants would be expected to contribute up to six hours of teaching per week for two academic terms. This would normally involve leading first or second year seminar groups, and assisting in laboratory classes.

We have excellent research facilities and a first class supervision record with a 100% submission success rate for our research council funded students. In addition, all our students receive their own research support budgets which can be used to attend national and international conferences.

Applicants should have a good (2:i or above) undergraduate degree in Psychology or a related discipline. However, for the teaching studentships, preference will be given to applicants with post-graduate qualifications (e.g. an MSc) or some postgraduate research experience.

Further details concerning postgraduate study in psychology at Lancaster can be found at: http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/pg/doctorates.html

Details on the application procedure can be found at: http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/pg/phd_info.html#apply

Interviews will be held in the week beginning Monday 9th March 2009.

For further information concerning the studentships, or about postgraduate study more generally, please contact Dr Mark Levine, Director of Graduate Studies (m.levine@lancaster.ac.uk).