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Fully Funded DPhil in Experimental Psychology Available

Applicants are sought as part of an interdisciplinary project on ‘Childhood maltreatment and lifetime resilience’ at University of Oxford. The successful applicant will be offered a DPhil place on the DPhil in Experimental Psychology programme with funding (in association with the Humanities Division) commencing in October 2015 to work with Dr Lucy Bowes, Department of Experimental Psychology (Medical Science Division).

Funded through TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project asks how people, variously, find ways to make live-able lives following abuse and neglect in childhood. The strengths of historical and psychological approaches are combined innovatively to enable the contextualised, multi-level study of processes that develop resilience across the life-course. For more information on this project: http://torch.ox.ac.uk/childhood

The studentship is a part of the Humanities and Science programme, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, designed to create new interest in, and opportunities for, research that reaches between the humanities and sciences.

The successful applicant will work in the Department of Experimental Psychology with Dr Lucy Bowes on ‘Child maltreatment and psychopathology: an investigation of risk and resilience’. The student will also benefit from co-supervision in the humanities (Dr Siân Pooley) and the their interests will shape the project’s foci, but will examine these broad areas.  The student will learn and use advanced statistical skills to examine long-term psychological impacts of exposure to child maltreatment and identify pathways to resilience across the life-course. This involves secondary data analysis of studies that tracked people from birth to adulthood.

Award value

The studentship will cover University and College fees and provide a stipend (tax-free maintenance grant) of at least £14,000 for the three years. There will also be a generous annual allowance for research expenses.

Application process

You will need to apply for both the programme and this studentship via the main University online graduate application form, and pay an application fee of £50.  To access the application form and application guide please visit the online prospectus at www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/apply.  

Please apply for the DPhil in Experimental Psychology (1890) programme of study, quoting Magdalen College and reference code 15HS-EXPSY in the Departmental Studentship Applications section of the standard University graduate application, and ensuring that the application is submitted by 12 noon (UK Time ) Friday 13th March 2015.  Interviews will hopefully take place during Week Commencing 23rd March 2015.

Applicants who have already applied for a DPhil in Experimental Psychology programme by the January deadline and who wish to be considered for this studentship are invited to submit a new research proposal relating to the theme of the studentship to graduate.admissions@psy.ox.ac.uk, quoting the reference code 15HS-EXPSY in the subject line.  

Please note: PGR applications to work with other members of staff in the Department of Experimental Psychology will not be consider.