Connectionists: Phd Studentships in London

[Denis Mareschal]

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.  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:

     * the Babylab
    * the Developmental Neurocognition Lab
     * ALPHAlab
     * Neurocognitive Development Unit of ICH
      *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 undertake the writing of a long document 
in 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 ¤32k per annum plus a 
minimum of ¤6k Mobility Allowance per annum. They 
will also receive an annual payment as a Travel 
Allowance, and ¤2k 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 at 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.


Applications should be submitted not later than 
March 31st 2006. A small short list of candidates 
drawn form those received by this date will be 
invited to London for interviews approximately 4 
to 6 weeks following this date. However, we will 
continue to consider applications until all 6 
positions have been filled. We will announce when 
the position have been filled on the CBCD web 
pages cited above.

Informal enquires can be made to Professor Mark 
Johnson (mark..johnson at psychology.bbk.ac.uk), Dr. 
Denis Mareschal (d.mareschal at bbk.ac.uk) or any 
potential supervisor who is part of the CBCD and 
affiliated laboratories.

Procedural or administrative enquires regarding 
the application procedures or conditions of 
employment should be made to he Marie Curie 
Administrator Ms Katherine Jones 
(k.jones at bbk.ac.uk)

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	Dr. Denis Mareschal
	Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development
	School of Psychology
	Birkbeck College
	University of London
	Malet St., London
	WC1E 7HX, UK
	tel +44 (0)20 7631-6582/6226 reception: 6207
	fax +44 (0)20 7631-6312
	http://www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/people/academic/mareschal_d/


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