Location:

Gloucester, United Kingdom

Program Type:

Full Degree

Degree Level:

Doctorate

Specialty:

Business Administration & Management

Program Overview

Program Description:

The Centre for Research in Applied Cognition, Knowledge, Learning and Emotion (CRACKLE) provides a stimulating environment for research students through the range of research and consultancy in Applied Cognitive Science. Current projects focus on thinking & decision-making in natural or simulated natural contexts (e.g., medical, military, fireground, driving, sports, air traffic control, education situations), with a view to understanding the brain processes and systems involved. Current projects include staff and graduate studies of: situation awareness in uncertain or risky situations fire ground decision-making cognitive and emotional processing in social values medical (obstetric team) situation-awareness and decision-making emotional markers in decision-making decision-making in cricket brain/cognitive processes underlying use of metaphor in the arts reaction of the infant brain to the visual world psychology of education and classroom learning developmental disorders (ADHD, etc)

Additional Program Information

Accreditation:

Accredited

Financial Aid:

No

Requirements:

An honours degree of upper second class or above from a UK university, or an equivalent qualification, is normally required in a subject area relevant to your chosen research topic in exceptional circumstances, we will consider applications from non-graduates with experience of undertaking research or graduates who wish to work in a new subject area registration is usually for MPhil or MRes or MA/MSc by Research with the possibility of transfer to PhD candidates with a master’s degree in a relevant subject that contains appropriate research methods training may register for PhD directly.