The PhD studentship is part of a 5-year interdisciplinary European Research Council-funded project investigating the impact of the visual environment on colour perception. Supervisors: Dr Jenny Bosten and Professor Anna Franklin

Type of Award

Postgraduate Research

PhD Project

This PhD will use virtual reality to manipulate the chromatic scene statistics of people’s visual environments in real-time, and will investigate the impact of these manipulations on human colour perception.  This will involve the programming and set-up of colour manipulations of video data to be presented using a head-mounted display for virtual reality. It will also involve the programming and implementation of psychophysical tasks to be conducted before and after people are immersed in the altered realities.  The project will also aim to identify the region of the brain which computes visual scene statistics and later PhD experiments will involve fMRI, working under the supervision of Dr, Chris Bird.  The student will need to have extensive programming experience, computational skills and be confident with technology. The student would join a research group (The Sussex Colour Group, http://www.sussex.ac.uk/psychology/colour/) with a strong track record of research on colour perception.

Please direct informal enquiries to Jenny Bosten (j.bosten@sussex.ac.uk).

Amount

A stipend of £14.777 p.a. UK/EU. PhD fees and research and training costs are also covered for 3 years

Eligibility

• This award will only pay fees at the Home/EU rate.

• Candidates must have, or expect to obtain, a First or a high Upper Second Class Honours undergraduate degree, or equivalent qualification, and/or a Master’s degree in Informatics, Computer Science, Psychology or a discipline where skills relate to the project (e.g., in the Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Physical Sciences or Biological sciences).
• Only full time students will be accepted.

Number of Scholarships Available: 1

Deadline: 20 January 2019 0:00 (GMT)

How to Apply

• Please submit your application online at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/phd/apply for the ‘PhD in Psychology’ programme for September 2019.
  • In the ‘Supervisor suggested by applicant’ section of your application form, please put name of supervisor(s)
  • In the ‘Proposed source of funding’ section of your application form, please put ‘ERC’
  • Please include a personal statement including your research interests (max 2 pages) rather than a research proposal (as the project is already specified)
• Candidates should provide
  • An up-to-date CV
  • Current degree transcript(s) with full details of performance on all completed courses
  • Two academic references