Other (age) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 23 Other (age) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Failures to detect language errors during older age: Evidence of cognitive decline?

University of Leicester School of Psychology and Vision Sciences

Healthy ageing is associated with well-recognised cognitive decline across multiple domains from age 50 onwards (e.g., working memory, processing speed). Read more

Supervisors: Dr V McGowan, Dr S Gunn

23 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Starting School Study: Smartphones and Adolescent Risk and resilient factors for wellbeing when transitioning school

University of Birmingham School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

The Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding behaviour (Centre-UB) is inviting applications for a Doctoral Studentship in association with our collaborative partner Forward Thinking Birmingham to start in October 2024. Read more

Supervisors: Dr V Goodyear, Dr M Pallan, Dr AR Randhawa

16 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Living with allergy during the transition to secondary school

University of Worcester Research School

Allergy, the immune system’s hypersensitive reaction to typically harmless substances, can be severe and lead to a potentially life-threatening reaction or anaphylaxis (Turner et al, 2019). Read more

Supervisor: Dr B Mahoney

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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The self-perception of adults with orofacial clefting

University of Dundee Dental School

Introduction. Orofacial clefting (OFC) is one of the most common congenital anomalies worldwide and the most common of all facial birth defects. Read more

Supervisors: Prof G McIntyre, Prof P Mossey

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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The effects of fiction consumption on Theory-of-Mind in adults

University of Bradford Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences

Research Group: Psychology

Past studies have shown that reading fiction is linked to better Theory of Mind (ToM). Yet not much is known about literary aspects or whether the type of fiction modality that drives this superior performance. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Yong

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Synthesizing evidence on different outcome scales: development of mapping methods for analysing childhood obesity data

University of Bristol Bristol Medical School

Obesity in childhood is a central theme in life course epidemiology. As well as middle-age mortality, childhood obesity is associated with type 2 diabetes and heart disease in adulthood [1]. Read more

Supervisors: Prof J Higgins, Dr AD Davies

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Exploring the relationship between alcohol consumption and self-harm combining epidemiological and human laboratory methods

University of Bristol Bristol Medical School

Project Background. Self-harm is a major public health concern. It is the strongest predictor of suicide and is particularly common among young people; a group in which rates of self -harm and suicide appear to be rising. Read more

Supervisors: Dr B Mars, Dr J Heron, Assoc Prof AA Attwood, Prof M Munafo

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Sheffield Hallam University - Psychology Demonstratorships: Peer-on-peer harmful sexual behaviour: Understanding risk and behaviour to prevent harm

Sheffield Hallam University Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

Applications are invited for Psychology Demonstratorships in the department of Psychology, Sociology, and Politics, commencing October 2024. Read more

Supervisor: Dr O Merry

24 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) scholarship - Can MIND networks derived from brain MRI shed fresh light on perinatal development?

King’s College London Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine

Brain connectivity is central to neurodevelopment and later cognition and mental health (Morgan et al., BP:CNNI 2018). We recently proposed a new method to construct structural brain networks from MRI data, called Morphometric Inverse Divergence (MIND). Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Morgan

1 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Virtual Reality (VR) for the promotion of psychological and physiological benefit for older people.

Atlantic Technological University Research

The Postgraduate Research Programme Translational Health Research Innovation preVention & Equity (THRIVE) offers 12 PhD research scholarships to commence in 2024. Read more

Supervisors: Dr WF Farrelly, Dr SW Wilson, Dr CH Heaney, Dr EMacG Mac Giolla

29 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Increasing physical activity levels among frail older adults: studying optimal implementation and mechanisms through which benefits occur

University of Birmingham School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

The Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding behaviour (Centre-UB) is inviting applications for a Doctoral Studentship, with our collaborative partner St Andrew’s Healthcare, to start in October 2024. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S.J.E. Lucas, Dr K Segaert, Dr JJCS Veldhuijzen van Zanten

16 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Representing neurodiversity in children’s literature: impacts on attitudes and wellbeing in primary school classrooms (Aston University)

Aston University College of Health and Life Sciences

ADCP PhD is a partnership cotutelle PhD program between Aston University (Birmingham, UK) and Deakin University (Melbourne, Australia). Read more

Supervisors: Dr S Carrington, Dr L Shapiro, Dr L Pecora, Assoc Prof M Stokes

1 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Dialects, registers, and accents: investigating the use of sociolinguistic variants

University of Dundee School of Social Sciences

Language is rich with expressive options, including words that tailor speech to the specific situation, e.g., varying by register (potato vs. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Melinger

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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The management of young people's mental health in primary care

University of Bristol Bristol Medical School

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, new prescriptions for medication used to treat anxiety and depression were increasing in young people [1, 2]. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Archer

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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The Effects of Befriending on Cognitive Function

University of Bradford Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences

Research Group: Psychology

Poor social relationships can contribute to cognitive decline [1], and vice versa; cognitive decline may strain social relationships [2] and curtail social engagement [3] and leading to loneliness and social isolation. Read more

Supervisors: Dr R Vaportzis, Dr M Mohammadnezhad

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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We have 23 Other (age) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Other (age) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 23 Other (age) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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