PhD Project Application 2025 Cohort

 We are inviting staff at the University of Birmingham to submit PhD project applications for the 2025 cohort of the Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding Behaviour (Centre-UB). 

Deadline for submitting your project application is Wednesday 11 December 2024, at 13:00.  To submit your application, please submit this application form, together with a letter of support from the partner organisation here.

Centre-UB behavioural research innovation and excellence is focused on three broad, multidisciplinary pillar themes spanned by one cross-cutting theme to recognise that, while behaviour can be studied at the level of the individual, all behaviour, exists within the context of multiple systems. The themes are: 1) Digital harms and goods, 2) Equity in physical and mental wellbeing, 3) Environmental change and sustainability, and 4) Systems thinking (cross-cutting theme). 

All PhD projects will have to be co-produced with a non-academic partner organisation (private, public or third sector) with interest and expertise in human behaviour. Centre-UB can facilitate connections between partner organisations and supervisors at the University of Birmingham. If you are interested in this, please let us know on centre-ubehaviour@contacts.bham.ac.uk and we will get in touch with you about this.  

 More detailed guidelines for project applications can be found here

Please do not hesitate to contact us on centre-ubehaviour@contacts.bham.ac.uk if you have any questions about this.