Postgraduate opportunities at Lancaster

[Katie Alcock]

Lancaster University
Department of Psychology
 
Postgraduate Studentship opportunities (MSc/ PhD)
 
The Psychology Department expects to award up to 8 postgraduate studentships
tenable form October 2004.  These include:
 
2 ESRC 1+3 Quota Studentships
Departmental Teaching Studentships
Lancaster University Doctoral Fellowships
 
We welcome applications from individuals with appropriate backgrounds in
psychology (normally, a First or Upper Second Class degree or equivalent)
who wish to conduct postgraduate research in any of the following areas:
 
·      Infant and Child Development
·      Cognition
·      Social, Conceptual, and Historical Psychology

·      Behavioural Neuroscience.
·      Applied Psychology (e.g.: human-computer interaction)
 

Please look at our web-pages for a full description of staff interests and
supervision areas  http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/research/areas.html.
Research in infant and child development currently is being carried out in
the following areas:

Infancy:
    * language development, including disorders (Katie Alcock)
    * spatial cognition (Dina Lew & Gavin Bremner)
    * inter-model perception and object knowledge (Gavin Bremner)
    * hand-mouth coordination (Dina Lew)
    * laterality and visually-guided reaching in normal and premature
infants (Brian Hopkins)
    * the prenatal development of posture (Brian Hopkins)
    * parent-infant relationships (Charlie Lewis)
    * infant crying (Brian Hopkins)
    * memory development (Rachel Morse)

Childhood:
    * cross-cultural and cross-linguistic development, including the impact
of ill health (Katie Alcock)
    * children's graphical and spacial skills (Gavin Bremner)
    * studies on the theory of mind (Charlie Lewis)
    * children's thinking and reasoning (Eugene Subbotsky)
    * working memory in children, including the development of executive
processes, vocabulary acquisition, visuo-spatial memory, and arithmetic
skills (John Towse)
    * the origins of clumsiness in children (Mary Smyth)
    * fatherhood and the development of family relationships (Charlie Lewis)

 

The department was rated 5A in RAE 2001, runs ESRC recognised MSc courses in
Psychological Research Methods and Developmental Psychology, and has
excellent computing and laboratory equipment for postgraduate students.
Purpose-built living accommodation and social facilities are available in
the University Graduate College.  Further details may be found at
http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk <http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/>
 

For information about how to apply, please contact (as soon as possible):
Dr. Mark Levine, Director of Postgraduate Studies for the Department.
(01524) 592915; Email m.levine at lancaster.ac.uk
<mailto:E.Chronicle at lancaster.ac.uk>
or Clare Hannon, Postgraduate Co-ordinator  (01524) 594975
c.hannon at lancaster.ac.uk
 
The closing date for applications is 1st April 2002.  Interviews will be
held on the 22nd and 23rd  April.