One of our alumni, Björn Persson, has had his MSc thesis from the University of Skövde replicated in <a href="http://www 7hhynf3 task planning tool.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886916312521″>an interesting new study in one of the highest h-indexed journals within its field, Personality and Individual Differences. Briefly, the study (as well as Björn’s MSc thesis) looks at correlations between different […]
Student and program appearances in local media
Two new local media pieces (both in Swedish only, unfortunately). One covering the use of psychedelic narcotics in clinical research, the other detailing collaboration with Estonian entrepreneurs seeking to develop a device for improving sleep.
Potential PhD positions
Max Planck Institute PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience (note the extremely short deadline!) Berlin School of Mind and Brain/Humboldt University International PhD Fellowships Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences PhD positions (bit of a long-shot, but not impossible for somebody with the right interest)
EyeWire Skövde leaderboard
We are implementing a new, student-focused healthy competition field to the website sidebar (to the right on a desktop/laptop, below the main text on a mobile/tablet): a Skövde-specific leaderboard for highest all-time scores on EyeWire (a crowd-sourced science application helping researchers trace individual neurons from histological samples)! The rules are simple: if you have a […]
Welcome to this year’s new and old students!
Of both undergraduate and graduate variety! As regards the latter, the list of grad students has been updated to account for the new bunch.
Best BSc and MSc theses: 2016 edition
After careful consideration by the year’s examiners, I am pleased to announce the winners of the honorary prize for the best Bachelor’s Thesis and the best Master’s Thesis in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Skövde for the year 2016. At Bachelor’s level, the prize goes to Consciousness Studies student Julius Wallenberg, for his thesis […]
PhD positions week 24
Edinburgh, Scotland Hannover, Germany Leuven, Belgium Lille, France
More PhD positions…
Potentially interesting for our students, from the following locations: Leuven (Belgium) Dresden (Germany) Frankfurt am Main (Germany) Maastricht (Netherlands)