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Higher Degree by Research Opportunities
Student opportunities at the Brain and Mind Centre
Our teams partner across borders and disciplines in pursuit of a common goal: the development of better treatments for conditions of the brain and mind, improving health outcomes now and for future generations.
This page is a comprehensive list of higher degree by research opportunities available within our research teams, for postgraduate research students. The Brain and Mind Centre is a multidisciplinary institute collaborating in research across psychology, health and medicine, science, policy and economics.ÌýTo find an opportunity that works for you, browse through the table and the research teams and click on the links.Ìý
Our teams work across neurodegeneration, child development and brain aging.Ìý
Opportunities are listed by Research Group.Ìý
Higher Degree by Research Opportunities by Research Group
Opportunity
Identifying Protein Drivers of Early Alzheimer’s disease
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Eligibility
- Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component.Ìý
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Opportunity
Identifying the Molecular Drivers of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
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Eligibility
- Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component.Ìý
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Opportunity
Identifying new mechanistic blood biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease
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Eligibility
- Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component.Ìý
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Opportunity
PhD in Psychology:
Investigating how to minimise gambling-related harms in vulnerable populations
Enhancing voluntary uptake of gambling harm-minimisation tools and resources
Supervisor
Eligibility
- Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree in Psychology (or similar) with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.
- Applicants must be able to support themselves financially whilst living in Sydney for the duration of the degree and managing all expenses (including university fees)
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Opportunity
- A unique opportunity is available for an outstanding PhD scholar to conduct research into a project named, “From dreams to degeneration: Sleep-wake disturbances as a target for novel biomarkers and therapies for patients with Parkinson’s disease.
- This scholarship is funded in part by Department of Defence United States Government.Ìý
Supervisor
Dr Elie Matar
Eligibility
- Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree
- A cover letter
- Two academic referees
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Opportunity
PhD in developing disease-modifying therapies for Parkinson's disease
Supervisor
Eligibility
- Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree
- Applicants must be able to support themselves financially (scholarship or personal funding) for the duration of the degree including university fees.
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Opportunity
PhD inÌýethical and humane use of animals in research
Supervisor
Eligibility
- Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree
- Applicants must be able to support themselves financially (scholarship or personal funding) for the duration of the degree including university fees.
Contact
Opportunity
Mapping neuroimaging disease trajectories in dementiaÌý
Supervisor
Associate Professor Ramon Landin-Romero
Eligibility
- Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree in a neuroscience-related discipline (e.g., Psychology or other) with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.
- Applicants must be able to support themselves financially whilst living in Sydney for the duration of the degree and managing all expenses (including university fees)
Contact
Associate Professor Ramon Landin-Romero
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Opportunity
Neuroimaging phenotypes of clinical and molecular changes in dementia
Supervisor
Associate Professor Ramon Landin-Romero
Eligibility
- Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree in a neuroscience related discipline (e.g., Psychology or other) with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.
- Applicants must be able to support themselves financially whilst living in Sydney for the duration of the degree and managing all expenses (including university fees)
Contact
Associate Professor Ramon Landin-Romero
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Opportunity
New neuroimaging methods and applications
Supervisor
Associate Professor Ramon Landin-Romero
Eligibility
- Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree in a neuroscience related discipline (e.g., Psychology or other) with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.
- Applicants must be able to support themselves financially whilst living in Sydney for the duration of the degree and managing all expenses (including university fees)
Contact
Opportunity
Postgraduate Research in CNS neuroinflammation
Supervisor
A/Professor Sudarshini Ramanathan
Eligibility
- Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.Ìý
Contact
A/Professor Sudarshini Ramanathan
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Opportunity
Postgraduate Research in the risk of relapse of MOG antibody-associated disease
(translational science: wet laboratory and clinical data analysis)
Supervisor
Professor Fabienne Brilot-Turville
Eligibility
- Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.Ìý
Contact
Professor Fabienne Brilot-Turville
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Opportunity
Postgraduate Research in the neuroinflammation of neurodevelopmental disorders
Supervisor
Eligibility
- Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.Ìý
Contact
Opportunity
PhD project:
Identifying disease-specific changes that drive dementia and motor neuron disease and reliable blood biomarkers of underlying pathobiology
Supervisor
Eligibility
- Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.Ìý
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Opportunity
PhD project:
Role of the CYLD gene in dementia and motor neuron disease
Supervisor
Eligibility
- Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.Ìý
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Opportunity
Postgraduate Research opportunities (Masters, PhD) in Autoimmune NeurologyÌý
Supervisor
A/Professor Sudarshini Ramanathan
Eligibility
- For Clinical Projects – Applicants must be undertaking or have completed their Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) (with sub-specialisation in neurology or immunology)
- For Basic Science Projects - Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.Ìý
Contact
Opportunity
PhD in novel pharmacotherapies and the neurobiology of substance use disorders
Supervisor
Eligibility
- Applicants must hold an Honours degree (First Class) or a First-Class Honours Equivalent Degree or a Master's degree with a substantial research component, i.e. 25% of one-year full-time study load.Ìý