“ I started working with my current supervisor as an undergraduate and decided to stay for my PhD because I had really enjoyed the productive atmosphere of the lab and studying visual perception. The School of Psychology is a great environment to work in because it is large enough to be incredibly diverse yet it is small enough that most people know you. So while you will be working in your lab group you will have a chance to discuss your work with people from wide-ranging areas such as cognitive ageing and primate communication.”
KATHARINA
Stuttgart, Germany Current PhD student
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Career Information We see postgraduate study as part of your long-termcareer development. Alongside the University’s Careers Centre,we offer advice and support in planning your career. The School provides opportunities to gain experience ofworking in an academic context, by being involved in tutorials, laboratory classes and other aspects of academicwork. The vast majority of our postgraduates have gained post-doctoral and lecturing positions in universities across theworld while others have jobs in healthcare (as researchers and clinicians), wildlife conservation, information technology and management services.
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Behavioural Neuroscience Research is aimed at an understanding of howparticular brain systems function to control and regulate behaviour.
Dr James Ainge (jaa7) – Internal spatial representations (cognitive maps) that animals form of familiar environments and howthese may be used to encode information about experiences that occur in those places.
Dr Eric Bowman (emb) – Information processing within reward and motivational systems of the mammalian forebrain. Especially effects of abused substances on the neural systems that respond to natural rewards, the role of reinforcement learning in the formation of habits, and neuropsychological analysis of incentive motivation.
Dr Gillian Brown (grb4) – Behavioural neuroendocrinology; focusing on howhormones influence development of the brain and behaviour, particularly sex differences. The evolution of sex differences in behaviour, including sex biased parental investment and female sexual behaviour.
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