Potential research group Vacancies
Research Focus
Below you will find a list of Research Groups in Experimental Psychology that have recently recruited graduate students. Feel free to contact the PIs directly with your CV and information about your proposed area of research if you are interested in working in any of these groups.
Before you apply, you must identify an academic member of staff who is willing to supervise you and has the resources to support your proposed research project.
Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research
The Oxford Centre for Emerging Minds Research (OCEMR) is focused on conducting world-class research with children and young people that promotes a world where their differences are understood and accepted, strengths are capitalised on, and mental health difficulties are prevented or addressed early.
The Director of the Centre is Cathy Creswell, FMedSci, Professor of Developmental Clinical Psychology and an expert in anxiety disorders in children and young people. The Deputy Director of the Centre is Polly Waite, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology.
The Centre is actively seeking to recruit DPhil candidates for the 2026/2027 Admissions cycle. For all enquiries related to the Centre, please email ocemr@psy.ox.ac.uk
For information on other Research Groups who may be recruiting, please see below.
RESEARCH GROUPS
Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition Lab
Culture, Language & Cognition
Decisions & Action
Emotional Disorder Genesis & Evolution
OxInteract: Social Interactions and Intergroup Relations
Oxford Psychological Interventions for Children and Adolescents
Risk & Resilience
Social Foundations
Attention and Cognitive Control
Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development
Brain and Behaviour
Brain, Speech and Language
Computation and Cognition
Computational Psychopathology
Consciousness and Cognition
Crossmodal Perception
Decision Dynamics
Human Information Processing
Language and Cognitive Development
Learning and Memory
Memory and Sleep
Neurochemistry, Action and Control
Neuromodulatory Systems and Cognition Lab
Neurophysiology of Reward
Oxford Cognitive Approaches to Psychosis
Psychological interventions for ANxiety and related Disorders in Adolescence
Theoretical Neuroscience & Artificial Intelligence
Reimagine
Dynamic Cognition Lab
Perception