Applications for the CCBS PhD Programme for 2012/13 are now closed. The next round of applications will begin in October 2012.

The list of PhD projects on offer for 2012/13 was as follows:

• Developing an intervention to increase exercise in schizophrenia — Professor Stephen Lawrie
• Exploiting the potential of selective serotonin receptor antagonists (SSRI) in acute stroke — Dr Gillian Mead
• Genetic and environmental impact upon brain structure in schizophrenia — Professor Stephen Lawrie
• Hot-headed or cool? : modelling brain temperature — Professor Ian Marshall
• Identifying endophenotypes for psychosis in multiply-affected families — Professor Andrew McIntosh
• Kinase function during myelination and remyelination in zebrafish — Professor Charles ffrench-Constant
• Methods to assess the validity of research of pre-clinical neuroscience research — Dr Malcolm Macleod
• Polygenic approach to examining neuroimaging data in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder — Dr Heather Whalley
• Probing regulatory T cell function in multiple sclerosis — Dr Anna Williams
• Synaptic diseases — Professor Seth Grant
• The role of cerebellum in language and communication — Dr Thomas Bak
• The selection problem — Professor John Starr

John C Marshall CCBS/Psychology PhD studentship projects*

• Vascular cognitive impairment - are there discrete sub-types? — Professor John Starr
• Multimodal brain imaging in autism — Professor Stephen Lawrie
• Are brain structure and white matter tract architecture associated with susceptibility to depression? — Professor Andrew McIntosh
• Understanding and treating functional (psychogenic) paralysis: neuropsychological investigation oriented to pilot treatments — Dr Jon Stone
• Language and visuospatial functions in multiple sclerosis — Dr Thomas Bak
• Listening to the 'silent' hemisphere: the screening, understanding and management of neuropsychological impairments after right hemisphere stroke — Dr Simon Hart
• Apathy in motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia — Dr Sharon Abrahams

*The John C Marshall PhD studentships are jointly supervised between CCBS and Psychology. The scheme was established in 2010 and aims to increase collaborative activity between Clinical Neurosciences and Psychology. Funding for the studentship is for three years and offers a UK/EU non-clinical student stipend to students from either discipline.

The CCBS PhD Programme

We offer a three-year full-time PhD programme. Each student has a principal and second (advisory) supervisor plus a Thesis Committee to support and guide the student toward submission of a PhD thesis within three years. The student reports to this Committee at least once per year, and also makes presentations by poster or oral presentation to the members of CCBS. Students are encouraged to attend and participate in national and international scientific conferences, and are afforded opportunities for training in generic and transferable skills, including design of experiments, communication skills and report writing.

Funding is available from The University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine scholarships, MRC studentships and the The John C Marshall PhD studentship.

CCBS advertises its PhD scholarships in November each year. It is also worth regularly visiting the University of Edinburgh postgraduate pages for details of postgraduate research and funding:

• www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate
• www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/fees-finance
• www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/medicine-vet-medicine/postgraduate/research

General enquiries should be emailed to ccbs@ed.ac.uk

MSc Neuroimaging for Research

This part-time, online, flexible programme is designed for all scientists and clinicians who use neuroimaging and wish to expand and improve their knowledge and skills.

More information can be found here.