The Department is pleased to invite applications for 2 MRC-supported studentships, to conduct research towards a doctoral degree at the University. The department supports internationally-renowned research programmes that address the causes and treatments of psychiatric illness; it is particularly strong in neurobiology and physical treatments, psychopathology and psychological treatments, old-age and social psychiatry, psychiatric epidemiology and developmental psychopathology.

Information about particular projects offered this year can be found at http://www.psychiatry.ox.ac.uk/studentships/post-gradresearch. There are projects in the glucocorticoids and emotional processing, depression and the neural basis of reward, genetics of dementia and the ageing brain, psychological factors in eating disorders, electrophysiology of attention, and neural responses to trauma. Applicants are strongly advised to contact potential supervisors to discuss possible projects or their own proposals before applying. Candidates who are interested in other aspects of the research done within the Department are also encouraged to apply.
Scholarship Application Deadline: Friday 14 January 2011
Further Scholarship Information and Application