Up to 5 Top-Up scholarships will be awarded to students who commence a PhD in the School of Psychology by March 2010 in one of the Priority Project areas listed below and are awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) or University of Sydney Postgraduate Award (UPA).

The Top-up Scholarships will provide an additional stipend of $5000/year (tax-free) for up to 3 years, subject to satisfactory progress. Successful applicants who have to relocate from outside the Sydney metropolitan area to take up their offer of PhD enrolment will also be eligible for a relocation allowance of up to $4000.

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Priority PhD Projects

• Audiovisual time perception; Binocular rivalry: dynamics, suppression strength & feature tuning. .

• The development and organisation of the mental lexicon; Investigating the determinants of skilled reading. .

• Shared decision making with cancer patients and family members. .

• Social origins of fear and confidence in infants and early childhood. .

• Understanding the factors that shape successful interethnic contact. .

• Statistical processing of object sets: psychophysical and neuroimaging investigations; Interactions between object processing and attention. .

• Neural and behavioural mechanisms underlying associative learning and perception. .

• Investigating illusions that reveal how motion affects perception of objects' location. .

• Neurobiological basis for depression and anxiety, and prediction of successful treatment. .

• Selective attention and its role in human learning. .

• Animal models of adolescent drug use. .

• Exploring bi-directional racism and effective reduction strategies; Improving the teaching and learning quality in undergraduate psychology; Morality and prejudice: to what extent are they empirically bound? .