Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
PhD Studentships
School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh is a research led institution specialising in high quality research that touches people’s everyday
lives.
Our postgraduate research students are a crucial part of the research community. Each student works with a dedicated team of academic supervisors and receives training in key areas of research. Research students who receive bursaries are expected to participate in the learning and teaching of undergraduate students.
The School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication is proud of its dynamic research culture. QMU was awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize in 2002 for the clinical application of speech sciences, and the Speech Science Research Centre continues to be at the forefront of research into speech and communication. The School is also home to the Centre for Health Psychology, as well as fostering a wide range of research into culture, media, public relations and sociology.
QMU is making funds available for up to 7 PhD studentships in our distinctive research areas. Successful applicants will have all fees
waived for three years and will receive support with living costs. Within the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication
studentships are available in:
- Media history
- Culture and politics
- Social policy and justice
- Critical perspectives in public relations
- Intuitive versus rational thinking
- Health psychology in relation to vulnerable / older patients
- Development of externalising behaviours in children
- Influencing life style changes in obese patients with diabetes
- Physical barriers to communication in the elderly
- Methods of eliciting speech and language data in children Dyslexia
- Maturational time course of the speech evoked auditory brainstem response
For more information see our website:
http://www.qmu.ac.uk/research_knowledge/bursarycomp08.htm
or email: researchdegrees@qmu.ac.uk
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