Louise Brown Nicholls, Simon Hunter, Nicola Cogan, Anja Kuschmann and Anja Lowit from the School of Psychological Sciences and Health have been awarded 2 ESRC Collaborative PhD Studentships. These awards are very competitive, and the applicants should be congratulated for submitting such excellent applications. Only 15 awards were made in all the social sciences in all Scottish Universities, and 2 of these were awarded to researchers in Psychological Sciences and Health.
The two awards are:
Studentship 1
Title: Ageing and communication: understanding the roles of cognition, speech production, and social participation
Investigators: Louise Brown Nicholls, Anja Kuschmann, Anja Lowit
Collaborating organisation: Scottish Older People's Association
Studentship 2
Title: Mental health self-stigma and peer-victimisation in adolescence
Investigators: Nicola Cogan, Simon Hunter, Pat Corrigan (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago)
Collaborating organisation: The Mental Health Foundation