PhD studentship in understanding visual vertigo

We seek an excellent and motivated PhD student join a cross-disciplinary team trying to help sufferers of visual vertigo. The PhD will be supervised by Prof Petroc Sumner, Prof Simon Rushton and Dr Georgina Powell in collaboration with colleagues in University Hospital Wales. Sufferers of visual vertigo (sometimes called visual dependency) experience debilitating episodes of dizziness triggered by certain visual stimuli or environments, such as supermarket aisles, motorways while driving, or patterned carpets. This raises important scientific questions about how cues are integrated between vision and balance, as well as a clinical need for improved rehabilitation tools. Currently, rehabilitation is generally slow and often incomplete. Our aim is to understand why certain stimuli can trigger dizziness and what processing deficits might underlie visual vertigo, and then generate improved rehabilitation tools.