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 2020 will form the third 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.
Application deadline: January 26 2020