Are you interested in developing novel approaches to understanding, predicting or changing behaviour?
Newcastle University is offering
five, 4-year PhD studentships in the field of behaviour informatics.
Behaviour
informatics brings together the study of behaviour in all its guises,
from economics to psychology
and from behavioural ecology to animal welfare, with new methods from
computational science and engineering to address challenging questions
in human and/or animal behaviour.
We want to attract students with backgrounds relevant to
either behaviour (life, social sciences and economics) or
informatics (computing science, engineering and mathematics) who are
keen to expand their skills and pursue research at the intersection of
these disciplines.
Students recruited in 2019 will form the second cohort of an integrated programme funded by the
Leverhulme
Trust to develop training in
behavioural informatics at Newcastle. The programme is student-led: in
the first year, all students will conduct three taster projects that
will give them the opportunity to choose and develop their final PhD
project. All students will work with two supervisors,
one from each discipline. The four-year program is designed to allow
time for the upskill training necessary for successful
inter-disciplinary research.
For further information, please visit:
www.behaviourinformatics.org.uk
Application deadline: January 27 2019