<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Two 3-year Marie Skłodowska- Curie PhD positions in London</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The<i><span> </span><b><u>Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development</u></b><span> </span></i>and<i><span> </span><b><u>Centre for Cognition, Computation and Modelling</u></b>, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck University of London</i></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">,<b> </b>are offering 2 3-year fully funded PhD studentships to be supervised by Professors Denis Mareschal and Richard Cooper.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p><br clear="all" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div><div><div class="gmail-m_4645865338657350371gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34)">The projects are part of the<span> </span></span><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri">Mo</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri">bile<span> </span><b>T</b>echnology for<span> </span><b>I</b>nfant Social-Cognitive<span> </span><b>N</b>euroscience (MOTION) Interdisciplinary Training Network for Innovative Infancy Research</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri">,<span> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(34,34,34)">a European Commission ITN project exploring infants’ and toddlers’ actions, gaze direction, and brain activity as they actively explore the world around them. ITNs are international collaborative research and training networks involving several University and private sector partners</span><span> </span><br><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><u><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Birkbeck University of London is particularly responsible for developing the following projects</span></u><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">:<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;te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"EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>Further details can be obtained from:<span> </span><a href="http://cbcd.bbk.ac.uk/research/two-marie-curie-phd-positions" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://cbcd.bbk.ac.uk/<wbr>research/two-marie-curie-phd-<wbr>positions</a>.<span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span> </span>Informal enquiries can be sent to </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:d.mareschal@bbk.ac.uk" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)">d.mareschal@bbk.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> or </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:r.cooper@bbk.ac.uk" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)">r.<wbr>cooper@bbk.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">. Procedural enquiries concerning application to the Department of Psychological Sciences PhD programme should be directed to Ida Akhtar (<a href="mailto:i.akhtar@bbk.ac.uk" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">i.akhtar@bbk.ac.uk</a>).<span> </span><br><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/our-staff/richard-cooper" target="_blank">                          Rick Cooper, PhD</a><br>Professor of Cognitive Science</div><div dir="ltr">Executive Editor, <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1551-6709" target="_blank">Cognitive Science</a><br><div><a href="http://cccm.bbk.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Centre for Cognition, Computation and Modelling</a></div><div><a href="http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/" target="_blank">Department of Psychological Sciences</a>,<br><a href="http://www.bbk.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Birkbeck, University of London</a><br><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/+London+WC1E/@51.5214099,-0.1324283,17z" target="_blank">Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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