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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
UCL (University College London) - Bloomsbury Campus
Part Time
Oct 2026
5 Year
We offer a world-leading research environment aimed at understanding human communication, speech, language and cognition. Students have the opportunity to study within an interdisciplinary group of experimental psychologists, linguists, speech and language therapists and NHS-based clinicians. With UCL being ranked first for research power in Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience by the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021), with more than two thirds of our research in these areas rated as world-leading (4), we are at the forefront of research in human speech, language and communication investigating core issues in the development of spoken and written language, the cognitive bases of language in children and adults, the interrelationship of language with other cognitive systems. We also focus on impairments of language and communication across the lifespan and on clinical interventions.
University College London (UCL) is consistently ranked among the top ten universities in the world, conducting leading r...
