Postdoctoral Researchers

Please get in touch with Patti if you are planning to apply for funding for a postdoctoral fellowship and are looking for a host institution and a mentor. We strongly suggest you include your CV and a brief description of your proposed research project. Such fellowships are offered by various organisations:

• ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships
• ESRC New Investigator Grants
• Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships
• Marie Curie Research Fellowship Programme
• Dutch NWO Rubicon grant

Phd Students

Please get in touch with Patti (and include your CV and a description of your proposed project and a timeline) if you are thinking about doing a PhD after your MSc/MRes or are considering applying for ESRC '1+3' funding (see for an overview of funding of PhD schemes through Doctoral Training Programmes here. We generally take on 1-2 new PhD students each year. We generally do not have fully funded places available, however, all students currently in the lab have their own funding. We suggest you get in touch with UCL Careers service (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/careers/) for more information about funding and applying for PhDs, but see also the following links for more information about finding funding:

• UCL Doctoral Training Programmes UBEL
• UCL Graduate Research Scholarships
• UCL Overseas Research Scholarships
  • Note: Covers tuition fees only
• BBSCRC LiDO

MSc or MRES students

We offer projects to the MSc Language Sciences and the MRes Speech, Language, and Cognition. Our available project are distributed in a booklet via the module organiser Yi Xu at the end of October each year and we generally take on 2-3 MSc/Mres students each year for a summer project. We normally take the project advertised in the aforementioned booklet as a starting point to design the research project you would be working on. Many MSc/MRes students who worked with us have gone on to do a PhD in the lab or elsewhere in the UK or EU. We normally consider new MSc/MRes student in the lab in October/November each year, but feel free to contact us for a chat at any other time as well.

Undergraduate pals project students

If you are interested in joining the lab for your 3rd year Psychology and Language Sciences (PALS) research project, please email Patti directly and don’t forget to include a CV and an explanation of why you would like to work with us and ideally also give a summary of the kind of project you would want to do. We will also advertise open projects every year in in the booklet distributed ad the end of the 2nd year in the PLS degree. Feel free to get in touch earlier if you have an idea for a project that you would like to discuss and you would like to start working on your project over summer. ​