Doctoral Programme in Psychology of Reading
The community of researchers in Edinburgh working on topics related to the Psychology of Reading is internationally recognised as one of the strongest groups in the world. Our expertise covers a wide range of topics including language processing in reading, eye movement control, visual word recognition, computational models of reading, and reading development and dyslexia. We use a wide range of methodologies including eye movement recording, event-related potentials, corpus analysis, and computational modelling.
In general, Doctoral students would take one-year of MSc study (e.g., in Psycholinguistics or Visual Cognition) followed by 3 years of doctoral study.
To learn more about opportunities for doctoral study at Edinburgh, feel free to contact any of the Staff below, all of whom have interests in the Psychology of Reading:
A selection of current staff interests in this area available for PhD research:
- Reading and language comprehension (Fernanda Ferreira, Martin Pickering, Patrick Sturt)
- Attention and eye movements (John Henderson, Antje Nuthmann, Richard Shillcock)
- Word recognition (Richard Shillcock)
- Cognitive modelling (Antje Nuthmann, Richard Shillcock)
- Developmental and genetic studies of dyslexia, language and cognition (Tim Bates, Holly Branigan)
For further information, contact the Programme Secretary, Toni Noble or, to discuss academic matters, contact the Programme Director, Martin Corley.
