4-year
PhD studentships in Behaviour Informatics and
the multimodal study of behaviour
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.
For
further information, please visit:
www.behaviourinformatics.org.uk
Application
deadline: January 26 2020