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.

The application portal opens 2 September 2019 for all applications. Deadline for application matches the major funding deadlines: 9 October 2019 for candidates wishing to be considered for Gates USA funding; 3 December 2019 for all other candidates. Please be aware that the dates advertised on the system may not match the above dates.

Please see our poster here for more details: Student Recruitment Poster.

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.

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.

 

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.