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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b class=""><font class="" face="Arial">Up to 9 PhD studentships are available from the University of Sussex’s Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme: From Sensation and Perception to Awareness<o:p class=""></o:p></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Arial">The University of Sussex invites applications for PhD studentship awards within its Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme entitled “<b class="">From Sensation and Perception to
Awareness</b>”. The closing date is <b class="">31st January 2020</b>.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><font class="">Supervisors in vision science are offering projects, including Jamie Ward, Anna Franklin, Leon Lagnado, </font></font><span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">Thomas Baden and </span><font face="Arial" class=""><font class="">Jenny
Bosten. The following projects are offered, and the program is also open to student-led proposals on the theme. For details, please see </font></font><a href="https://www.sussex.ac.uk/sensation/applications" class="">https://www.sussex.ac.uk/sensation/applications</a><span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">:</span></p>
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<div class=""><b class="">Human-computer interaction and digital arts</b></div>
<div class="">Designing Multisensory Experiences within the Reality-Virtuality Continuum</div>
<div class="">Investigation of Smell Experiences applying Computational Techniques</div>
<div class="">Investigating Feedback Musicianship</div>
<div class="">Performing with Musical Machines</div>
<div class="">Explorations in Robot Opera</div>
<div class="">Seeing with Sound: Visual-to-Auditory Sensory Substitution for the Blind and Sighted</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Human Cognition and Cognitive neuroscience</b></div>
<div class="">Investigating Perceptual Presence using Virtual Reality</div>
<div class="">Neural codes for auditory feature binding</div>
<div class="">Sensing the first step</div>
<div class="">Consciousness and the Predictive Brain</div>
<div class="">Impact of lifestyle challenges on perception of bodily signals</div>
<div class="">Common determinants of involuntary attention to sensory stimuli and mental representations</div>
<div class="">Free energy agents: Modelling problem-solving in animals and machines</div>
<div class="">Understanding individual differences in sweet taste</div>
<div class="">Conscious recollection, objective memory and cortical reinstatement</div>
<div class="">Integrated information and neural complexity for expected and unexpected stimuli</div>
<div class="">The Role of Predictability in Conscious Awareness and Memory</div>
<div class="">Investigating cues to colour constancy using virtual reality</div>
<div class="">Visual tuning to environmental statistics during early development</div>
<div class="">The top-down generation of perceptual experience</div>
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<div class=""><b class="">Sensory Neuroscience</b></div>
<div class="">Vision at the origin of vertebrate life</div>
<div class="">Early visual processing</div>
<div class="">A genetic approach to Sensory Neuroscience</div>
<div class="">Incentive salience learning and perceptual bias</div>
<div class="">Neural control circuits for perceptual tuning of sensory inputs and behaviour selection</div>
<div class="">Active learning in visual navigation</div>
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<p class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><font class="">The prestigious </font><a href="https://www.sussex.ac.uk/sensation/" class="">Sussex Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarship Programme</a><span class=""><font class=""> </font></span><font class="">brings
together doctoral researchers from different disciplines to advance our understanding of the interactions between sensing, perception, and awareness in humans, animals, and machines.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Arial">The Programme will support an intake of up to 9 students starting in September 2020. PhD students will be registered within one of the participating schools (Life Sciences, Informatics,
Psychology, Media Film & Music, and Brighton and Sussex Medical School). <o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Arial">Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship holders will:<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Arial">have Home/EU fees paid and receive a tax free living allowance at the standard Research Council rate – currently £15,009 per annum – for three years<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Arial">be eligible for further financial support for training and research expenses, such as conference trips and experimental costs<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Arial">be eligible to apply for one of several 12 month postdoctoral research fellowships, available only to completing Leverhulme scholars<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Arial">benefit from supervision by world-leading researchers in the areas of sensation, perception, and awareness<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Arial">benefit from dedicated training courses in programming, virtual/augmented reality, public engagement, and more<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Arial">be part of a vibrant research community with many opportunities to develop yourself as well as your research, through specialist research seminars, reading groups, lectures by world
class visiting speakers, and student-led conferences<o:p class=""></o:p></font></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><font class="" face="Arial">You will also have access to research and practical expertise available across all participating schools and their related doctoral programmes and existing research networks.<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="" face="Arial">For further details, including how to apply, see:<o:p class=""></o:p></font></p>
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