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Find out more about opportunities to join the Sussex Neuroscience community.

Sussex NeuroscienceAcademic vacancies

Please look here for current vacancies at Sussex.

Research Fellows

We would like to encourage promising early career scientists to launch their independent research at Sussex. If you are interested in having Sussex Neuroscience sponsor an application for a Fellowship or Career Development Award, please contact Miguel Maravall, Louise Serpell or Jamie Ward in the first instance.

Postdoctoral researchers

Our postdoctoral researchers are highly valued members of our community, and potential applicants are welcome to contact group leaders directly. See our Research pages for more details about our major themes and individual research groups. Vacancies are advertised here

Funded PhD studentships

Sussex Neuroscience offers PhD scholarships on an annual basis, including a 4-year PhD Programme that includes a first year of laboratory rotations and training, spanning all of our research themes.

We also regularly advertise funded PhD studentships supervised by individual group leaders.

See our PhD page for more infomation and how to apply.

Schools, Centres and Groups

Sussex Neuroscience includes researchers who belong to four different academic Schools. Full information about working and studying within each School can be found on these webpages: 

There are many well-established areas of collaboration between Neuroscientists across the four Schools, as represented by the following groups:

Taught degrees in Neuroscience

If you are interested in studying for a taught degree in Neuroscience at Sussex, please see the main University prospectus:

Undergraduate prospectus

Postgraduate prospectus