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<div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">*** Please highlight this PhD opportunity to any potential candidates in your lab ***</span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">A fully-funded PhD position, ‘Understanding our 3D world’, is available in Wendy Adams’ lab, at the University of Southampton, UK. </span></div>
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<div class=""><b class="" style="font-size: 14px;">What: </b><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">The project will investigate how humans combine visual information with knowledge of their environment to understand the 3D structure and material properties
of objects and scenes. The research will use a combination of lab-based / VR studies and computational modelling. </span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">The position is funded by an ESRC studentship, which covers all tuition fees and provides an annual, tax-free maintenance grant. </span></div>
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<div class=""><b class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Where: </b><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">The successful applicant will join Professor Wendy Adams’ lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Southampton (</span><a href="https://www.southampton.ac.uk/psychology/about/staff/wendya.page" class="" style="font-size: 14px;">https://www.southampton.ac.uk/psychology/about/staff/wendya.page</a><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">). Facilities
include a virtual reality environment, visual-haptic presentation (Phantom force-feedback, oculus touch), stereoscopic presentation, eye tracking, computational modelling (super-computing) and EEG. </span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class="">How: </b>I welcome informal enquiries at <b class=""><a href="mailto:w.adams@soton.ac.uk" class="">w.adams@soton.ac.uk</a></b>. </span></div>
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<li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">For more information, or to apply please visit </span><font color="#0068da" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><u class=""><a href="https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=1078518JW" class="">https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=1078518JW</a></u></span></font><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">,
(job reference 1078518JW).</span></li></ul>
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<div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class="">Who</b>: The position is open to enthusiastic candidates from any country. </span></div>
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<li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">You should have an UG degree in Psychology or a related field.</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Preference will be given to applicants with some experience of programming (e.g. Matlab) and of behavioural research with human participants.</span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Applicants without a Master's degree can apply for 4 years of funding, and would complete a 1-year Master’s followed by a 3-year PhD. </span></li><li class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Applicants with a </span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Master's degree in a related field can apply for 3 years of PhD funding.</span></li></ul>
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<div class=""><b class="" style="font-size: 14px;">When: </b><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">The deadline for applications is 11.59pm on <b class="">24th January 2019</b>. Expected start date: October 2019.</span></div>
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