PhD position in hearing and speech science at UCL, London

[Stuart Rosen <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Studentship available for MRes+PhD or PhD alone

Auditory brainstem responses to speech sounds in quiet and noise: The 
effects of ageing and hearing impairment

Based at the UCL Centre for Human Communication and The Ear Institute
Sponsored by the RNID and Research into Ageing

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Friday 26th February 2010

A 3- or 4-year studentship for the academic year commencing September 
2010 is available to apply electrophysiological techniques to the 
understanding of the perception of speech in noise in older people with 
and without hearing impairment. This studentship provides up to four 
years full funding for postgraduate training, covering tuition fees and 
including a maintenance grant starting at £17k/year. Full funding is 
only available for UK/EU citizens. UCL’s policies on determining this 
status can be found at http://tinyurl.com/y9qmdn8. Most applicants will 
probably require the 4-year programme, and be enrolled initially in the 
MRes in Speech, Language and Cognition http://tinyurl.com/yb9p5d2. We 
will also consider applicants who have completed relevant Masters-level 
training for a 3 year PhD studentship. The primary supervisor will be 
Professor Stuart Rosen of UCL Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, 
with secondary supervision by Dr Ifat Yasin of the UCL Ear Institute.

Applicants should send a CV and the names and email addresses of two 
referees to Stuart Rosen at stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx A covering letter 
should include an outline of the applicant's long-term research and 
professional goals, as well as describe any particular expertise they 
have that they think may be applicable in this work.  Further 
information about the project can be obtained from Stuart Rosen. As this 
subject area is fairly technical, and requires some level of 
mathematical, computational and statistical expertise, applications are 
welcome from students of engineering, physics or mathematics. A lack of 
such training will not preclude consideration for this post, but all 
applicants must be prepared to get to grips with the technical aspects 
that are necessary.