Language and Cognition MPhil/PhD 36 months PHD Programme By UCL |TopUniversities
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Programme Duration

36 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

36,500 GBPTuition Fee/year

Main Subject Area

PsychologyMain Subject Area

Programme overview

Main Subject

Psychology

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

Study Mode

On Campus

We offer a world-leading research environment aimed at understanding human communication, speech, language and cognition. Students have the opportunity to study within a unique interdisciplinary group of experimental psychologists, linguists, speech and language therapists and NHS-based clinicians. Our graduates have an excellent record of employment.

Postgraduate students use the skills they have acquired during their PhD training to follow a number of different career pathways. Many continue in academia as postdoctoral researchers and eventually full-time academics; others continue training or practising in related fields such as speech and language therapy or clinical and educational psychology.

Research areas:

  • Cognitive mechanisms in typical and atypical speech, language and literacy development
  • Speech, language and communication disorders and interventions
  • Conversation analysis and clinical/institutional interactions
  • Dysphagia, dysarthria and apraxia
  • ASD, deafness, bilingualism, AAC

Programme overview

Main Subject

Psychology

Degree

PhD

Study Level

PHD

Study Mode

On Campus

We offer a world-leading research environment aimed at understanding human communication, speech, language and cognition. Students have the opportunity to study within a unique interdisciplinary group of experimental psychologists, linguists, speech and language therapists and NHS-based clinicians. Our graduates have an excellent record of employment.

Postgraduate students use the skills they have acquired during their PhD training to follow a number of different career pathways. Many continue in academia as postdoctoral researchers and eventually full-time academics; others continue training or practising in related fields such as speech and language therapy or clinical and educational psychology.

Research areas:

  • Cognitive mechanisms in typical and atypical speech, language and literacy development
  • Speech, language and communication disorders and interventions
  • Conversation analysis and clinical/institutional interactions
  • Dysphagia, dysarthria and apraxia
  • ASD, deafness, bilingualism, AAC

Admission Requirements

69+
7+
100+
3.3+
185+
Normally a minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree or a Master's degree in a relevant discipline from a UK university, or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.

3 Years
Sep

Tuition fees

Domestic
6,215 GBP
International
36,500 GBP

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