PhD in Psychology - Origins of mind

University of St Andrews

The PhD, in either Psychology or Neuroscience, is a research-based degree, normally conducted over a period of 3 years (or 6 years if taken on a part-time basis), under the supervision of one or more members of the School’s academic staff, leading to a thesis of no more than 80,000 words and an oral examination (viva). The School of Psychology and Neuroscience offers PhD and MSc (by research) programmes. Research in psychology and neuroscience typically fall into one of four key themes: cellular and developmental neuroscience, origins of mind, perception, cognition and action , social and group processes.The origins of mind research group aims to understand how evolutionary history and the process of development influence behaviour and cognition in a broad range of animal species, including non-human primates, elephants, birds, children and adult humans. The researchers make use of the Living Links to Human Evolution Centre at Edinburgh Zoo, African field sites (for example, Budongo Conservation Field Station), child testing facilities and human experimental laboratories.

Psychology