Overview
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in Learning Sciences based at the Moray House School of Education. This is a fully funded studentship, undertaken full time over a three-year period. Applications from individuals with previous experience of research in this field are particularly welcome, and/or from those with human computer interaction design expertise. This prestigious PhD post is funded by the Wellcome trust as part of a larger UK/US Practitioner/Research $2.4million project: Move2Learn. The student would be supported by, and expected to contribute toward, the wider Move2Learn team at Edinburgh and partner organisations, in particular, with a parallel PhD post at University College London
Candidates must have
- A first class or upper second class undergraduate degree, and a Master’s degree (preferably with Distinction) in a relevant discipline, including but not limited to the Learning Sciences, Early Years Science, Psychology, Computer Science, HCI, Design
- Experience of undertaking postgraduate research
- Proven excellent spoken and written English
- Demonstrate a strong interest/knowledge of embodied interaction/ cognition and early years informal science learning and/or communication
- A desire to work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary team
- Experience of working with digital technologies would be an advantage
The PhD focus is flexible but should related to:
- Early Learning (0-8 years)
- STEM subjects
- Embodied Cognition as a theoretical foundation (the role of the body in conceptual development)
- We are particularly interested in applications from those with an interest/experience in the design/development of technologies that capture body action (e.g. gesture/accelerometers/body tracking)
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