PhD in Engineering

Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD in Psychology. The studentship represents an exciting partnership between the University of Surrey and GL Assessment. The successful candidate will be a member of CoGDeV lab in the School of Psychology, and will be supervised by Prof. Emily Farran, Dr Debbie Gooch and Dr Alireza Behnejad from the University of Surrey. You will also benefit from input from a parallel international project in collaboration with Prof. Joni Lakin, Dr. Jonathan Wai, Prof. David Uttal and industry collaboration via the partnership with GL Assessment. This interdisciplinary project spans psychology, education and engineering. In collaboration with GL Assessment you will advance theory of the processes that support STEM skills by delivering the largest UK studies of spatial-mathematics and spatial-science associations. You will examine how individual differences moderate spatial-STEM associations thus addressing gender and diversity gaps. The findings will advance theory of the processes that support STEM skills.