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Prof T Freeman, Prof J Culling
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About the Project
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship to study the perception of auditory space and motion, with potential to generalise to audiovisual integration. The successful candidate will join a team of auditory and vision scientists interested in understanding how active perceivers look and listen while moving. Working alongside Tom Freeman (vision science) and John Culling (psychoacoustics), the student will join a team (2PIs, 2 post-docs, 2 Phd students) investigating how auditory, visual and audiovisual space and motion is recovered during head and eye movement. The lab is built around state-of-the-art auditory presentation (48 channel speaker array), VR (Oculus Rift) and motion tracking (magnetic motion sensing, VR headset, eye tracking). Other work in the lab includes research on room acoustics, speech in noise, cochlear implant users, and Bayesian models of perception. The studentship is funded by the Leverhulme Trust as part of a project entitled “Active audiovisual perception: Listening and looking while moving”.
Funding Notes
The studentship will commence in January 2019 and will cover your tuition fees (at UK/EU level) as well as a maintenance grant. In 2018-19 the maintenance grant for full-time students was £14,777 per annum. As well as tuition fees and a maintenance grant, all School of Psychology students receive conference and participant money (approx. £2250 for the duration of the studentship).They also receive a computer and office space, additional funding for their research, and access to courses offered by the University’s Doctoral Academy and become members of the University Doctoral Academy.
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Full awards (fees plus maintenance stipend) are open to UK Nationals, and EU students who can satisfy UK residency requirements. To be eligible for the full award, EU Nationals must have been in the UK for at least 3 years prior to the start of the course for which they are seeking funding, including for the purposes of full-time education.
As only one studentship is available and a very high standard of applications is typically received, the successful applicant is likely to have a very good first degree (a First or Upper Second class BSc Honours or equivalent) and/or be distinguished by having relevant research experience. A good aptitude for computer programming as well as a technically-minded approach to research is desirable.
As only one studentship is available and a very high standard of applications is typically received, the successful applicant is likely to have a very good first degree (a First or Upper Second class BSc Honours or equivalent) and/or be distinguished by having relevant research experience. A good aptitude for computer programming as well as a technically-minded approach to research is desirable.
