Qualification Type: | PhD |
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Location: | Bangor |
Funding for: | UK Students, EU Students, International Students |
Funding amount: | £19,237 per annum for 3 years |
Hours: | Full Time |
Placed On: | 17th April 2024 |
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Closes: | 8th July 2024 |
Applications are invited for a three-year fully funded PhD studentship within the School of Psychology and Sport Science, Bangor University. The studentship covers the full cost of tuition fees, plus a maintenance stipend (approx. £19,237 per annum for 3 years) as well as a generous research allowance.
Start Date: October 1st 2024
Project:
Speech production is one of the most complex processes that humans perform. In just one second of speech, we can produce approximately ten speech sounds that require the precise coordination of over 100 muscles. However, producing fluent speech is not always easy. Dr Wiltshire’s research aims to understand how the brain controls speech production in typical and diverse speaker populations. Her research addresses the entire speech production system, from the brain to the vocal tract. To do this, she takes an interdisciplinary approach, often combining tools from cognitive neuroscience (brain MRI, brain stimulation) and phonetics (vocal tract MRI, electromagnetic articulography, acoustics). For example, a recent project combined Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) with techniques that record the movement of the articulators (lips, tongue, velum) to understand the role of the Supplementary Motor Area in rhythmic speech production in people who stutter and people who do not stutter (Wiltshire & Hoole, 2022; preprint available here: https://osf.io/umcnb/).
Project proposals can be developed in two ways:
Please email Dr. Wiltshire for more information: c.wiltshire@bangor.ac.uk
For full information go to: https://www.bangor.ac.uk/studentfinance/postgraduate/funding#psychology
Supervision:
Dr Wiltshire received her doctoral degree in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Oxford in 2019. She then went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. She currently supervises three PGR students. For more information and to access recent publications, see www.charlottewiltshire.com
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Research Environment: There are extensive facilities for behavioural, physiological and neuroscientific studies, including a brand-new research-dedicated 3T MRI centre, TMS lab and fNIRS.
Residency requirements: This studentship is primarily aimed at UK students. However, international students should contact Dr Wiltshire to discuss funding options.
How to apply:
All application must be received through our online application system: https://apps.bangor.ac.uk/applicant/
Applications must contain the following documents:
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