We host 20-30 graduate students at any time and applications are invited from prospective PhD students wishing to pursue research in areas covered by any of our research programmes. Our approaches include experimental cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, computational modelling and neuroimaging using MRI, MEG, and EEG.

Our information poster for October 2018 places can be found here.

To find out more about our current research and our programme leaders, please visit our research programmes page. Feel free to email any of the researchers to find out more about their programmes and research opportunities in their groups. Read a student testimonial here.

For any applicants wanting to contact Dr Alexandra Woolgar, please find her details here.

All students are registered as members of the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge. They are members of a college and have full use of University facilities as well as those of the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

1 x MRC Studentship
We have 1 fully funded MRC Studentship available. To see proposed projects please click here: Proposed projects. If you wish to submit your own research proposal, please follow the usual route of contacting your preferred supervisor prior to application. Deadline 30^th April 2018. Eligibility criteria applies.

If applying for a supervisor proposed project please include a short statement about your interests and questions you’d like to pursue more specifically, this should not be longer than a page. If you are generating your own proposal from scratch please include the usual 1-2 page research proposal.

 All applications should be made via the normal application portal here: (https://www.graduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/directory/blcbpdbsc)

How to apply?

For information about how to apply for postgraduate studies at the Unit, please visit the page below which has extensive information about the application procedure.

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/studentships/how-to-apply/

If you require any help or information related to studentships then please get in touch with Amy Cook who is the Graduate Student Administrator.