6 Marie Curie PhD studentships in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Birkbeck University of London, UK

The Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development and affiliated laboratories has recently been granted Marie Curie Centre of Excellence in Training status by the European Commission. As a result of this, 6 3-year fellowships are available for the purposes of completing a PhD in Cognitive or Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at Birkbeck University of London.а The PhD studentships are tenable for up to 3 years and must be taken up no later than September 30th 2005.

Fellows will be hosted at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development (CBCD), within the School of Psychology, Birkbeck University of London. Details of the Centre's and affiliated lab's activities can be found at http://www.cbcd.bbk.ac.uk/cbcd.html. The CBCD has the mission to investigate relations between postnatal brain development and changes in perceptual, cognitive, and linguistic abilities from birth through childhood and late adulthood. Research in intrinsically multidisciplinary and involves behavioural testing, ERP, fMRI, NIRS, and computational neural network modelling with typically and atypically developing children as well as adult patient populations. Affiliated labs include:

ааа * the Babylab
аа * the Developmental Neurocognition Lab
ааа * ALPHAlab
ааа * Neurocognitive Development Unit of ICH
аааа *Brain and Behaviour Lab

Successful applicants will be required to complete a PhD under the supervision of a member of the CBCD faculty and affiliated labs.

Eligibility conditions Marie Curie actions carry a number of mobility constraints. Successful applicants cannot have resided more than 1 year within the last 3 in the UK. Ordinarily, applications will only be considered from citizens or long-term residents of the EU or affiliated states who are not citizens or residents of the UK. Other eligibility requirements may apply. Minimum English language standards apply for all PhD candidates to the University of London. Successful candidate will be expected to have sufficient written English skill to undertaking the writing of a long document n English.

Equal Opportunity Birkbeck is an equal opportunity employer. We particularly encourage application from women and recognise the differing life patterns of men and women in the work and trainings sectors.

Qualifications The fellowships are open to truly outstanding candidates who must have achieved at least a level of training that would enable them to qualify for entry into a PhD programme in their home country. As the PhD must be completed within the 3 years of the fellowships we anticipate that successful candidate will have already obtained a substantial amount of training in relevant research methods.
Conditions of employment Successful candidates will be employed as research assistants within the school of Psychology, Birkbeck University of London. Their salary will be the sterling equivalent of approximately д32k per annum plus a minimum of д6k Mobility Allowance per annum. They will also receive an annual payment as a Travel Allowance, and д2k as a Career Exploratory Allowance paid upon completion of the first 12 months of your appointment. All payments are determined by personal circumstance, details of actual salary and allowances can be obtained upon request

Application procedures

Interested applicants should consult the relevant web pages of the CBCD and affiliated Labs first to assess whether their research interests and experience match those of relevant possible supervisors. Applications will then be made through the School of Psychology MPhil/PhD Programme (http://www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/courses/phd_research/). Application forms can be obtained from Ms. Mina Daniels (s.daniels@bbk.ac.uk) or they can be downloaded directly form the Birkbeck web pages by following the links on (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/for/prospective/full-time/research). When applying, candidates should make it clear on their application form that they wish to be considered for a Marie Curie Studentship.