PhD Studentship in Social Neuroscience at Sussex, UK
 
The Social Decision Lab at The University of Sussex (Brighton, UK) is pleased to announce it will be supporting PhD applications this year through the SeNSS ESRC program.  Our lab studies social rewards, social influence, altruism,  information avoidance, and emotional processing (including interoception) using behavioural, computational, neural, pharmacological and physiological methodology.  We are inspired by work in psychology, economics, anthropology, sociology and neuroscience. A student will receive training in all aspects of their PhD and be championed in their career development.   
 
If you would like to do research that makes discoveries about how social cognition works and makes the world a bit better, get in touch with the lab PI, Dan Campbell-Meiklejohn (dc307@sussex.ac.uk) in the first instance.  Send your CV and a short (250 words max) statement of your interests.  If we have the right fit, you will be supported in your application for the SeNSS ESRC-funded studentships.  Both studentships cover EU/Home fees and stipend.  Deadline for the full applications are normally in January.   If you are self funded or have other funding for your PhD, you can apply any time. 
 
Why us? Our lab studies uses many methods in your training and our research environment is rich. We have a wonderful collaborative neuroscience network, two research MRI scanners with PhD MRI scanning funding available, and dedicated behavioural and pharmacological testing space. We have psychophysiology, EEG, and TMS facilities.  We rank high in UK research universities with particularly strong ratings on impact.  Our university-wide network includes world leaders in the study of international development, consciousness, memory, attention, learning, interoception, addiction and clinical research. Brighton is a wonderful, dynamic, progressive and colourful place to spend your graduate training (and 50 minutes on a train from the centre of London). All PhD graduates from the lab have gone on to work in postdoctoral positions in prestigious institutions or obtained independent fellowships. 
 
Note that other than the studentships above and have independent funding you can apply with no deadline.