School of Psychology PhD Studentship: Sex, Voice, and Stereotypes (2018)

Supervisors: Prof Alan Garnham (University of Sussex), Prof Jane Oakhill (University of Sussex), Prof Robin Banerjee (University of Sussex) and Prof David Reby (University of Sussex)

The successful candidate will be associated with the research team running an externally funded research project with the same name, on which the four named supervisors, together with a senior postdoctoral researcher, are the lead investigators. The project investigates voice in childhood and has three strands: production and perception of masculinity and femininity in the voice; children's deployment of sex-related voice cues in the context of peer relations; the development and impact of occupational sex-stereotypes. Data will have been collected in all three strands before the commencement of the PhD project, and the successful candidate will have some freedom in choosing, with the guidance of the supervisors, a suitable programme of research to follow up some of the initial findings. This PhD programme will complement the studies that will be carried out in the remaining part of the grant project. The original grant proposal points to a number of additional lines of research that might prove promising (e.g. looking at judgement of trust as a function of voice characteristics; or examining in more detail the content of children's productions when adopting the voices of specified characters), depending on the results of the initial experiments.

Applications should be made by Sunday 21st January 2018

What you get

£14,553 tax-free bursary per annum, plus a fee waiver

Type of award

PhD studentship available for September 2018

Eligibility

Eligibility requirements for potential candidates:

  • Studentship awards will be based on a competitive process, including interview. There are two types of awards available: +3 studentships, which fund a three-year full-time PhD, and 1+3 studentships, which fund a one-year Master's degree followed by a three-year full-time PhD. Full-time studentship covering tuition fee, and a maintenance allowance (currently £14,553 per annum).
  • The competitive awards are funded by the School of Psychology (+3, eligibility: Home or EU residency); the ESRC (1+3 or +3, eligibility at South-East Network for Social Sciences (SeNSS); or the Chancellor's International Research Scholarship (+3, eligibility at Chancellor's International Research Scholarship (2018).
  • Candidates must have, or expect to obtain, a First or a high Upper Second Class Honours undergraduate degree, or equivalent qualification, and/or a Master's degree in Psychology or a related discipline.

Deadline

21 January 2018 23:59

How to apply

Guidance for applicants:

  • Application procedures can be found here.
  • Please submit your application online for the 'PhD in Psychology' programme for September 2018 through this link.
  • In the 'Supervisor suggested by applicant' section of your application form, please put name of supervisor
  • In the 'Proposed source of funding' as School of Psychology and/or SeNSS, or CIRS).

Candidates should provide:

  • A research proposal that outlines your knowledge of the research area, hypotheses that could be addressed in your PhD, and an outline of potential methods. Your answer should not exceed 2 pages including references, be set at minimum 10-font type with margins a minimum of 1cm.
  • Current degree transcript(s) with full details of performance on all completed courses.
  • Two academic references.
  • An up-to-date CV.

Sponsors

The School of Psychology is one of the largest centres for the study of psychology
in the UK. We have nearly 40 academic faculty, about 100 research students and
the same number of postgraduate students taking Master's degrees. Our
undergraduate intake is about 250 a year, which gives us an academic community
of nearly 1000 people working in a rich and supportive learning environment.

Psychology is a diverse discipline and our size means that we span major
research areas in social, cognitive, biological, developmental and clinical
psychology. Psychology at Sussex was rated 10th in the UK for research in the
2014 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). 91% of our research at Sussex is
ranked as world-leading or internationally significant.

Contact us

For queries with respect to the application process please send an email for the attention of 'Postgraduate Coordinator' to: psychologyphd-enquiries@sussex.ac.uk

To discuss the details of this PhD project further, please contact Prof Alan Garnham via email: A.Garnham@sussex.ac.uk

Timetable

Deadline for applications: Sunday 21st January 2018

Availability

At level(s):
PG (research)

Application deadline:
21 January 2018 23:59 (GMT)
the deadline has now expired