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 As a Neuroscience PhD student you will be able to draw on a range of research approaches including service user experiences, policy, workforce and educational perspectives. Projects can have a strong clinical or practice focus, or be more theoretical or speculative. You will benefit from:

• a supervisory team comprising two or sometimes three members of academic staff. Depending on your research specialism you may also have an additional supervisor from another School, another research institution, or an external partner from government or industry
• desk space and access to a desktop PC  
• access to a range of electronic resources via the University’s Online Library, as well as to the physical book and journal collections housed within the Aldrich Library and other campus libraries
• extensive instrumentation facilities which includes an Image Analysis Unit equipped with electron, confocal and atomic force microscopes, hearing lab, electrophysiological experimental setups for recording from single cells and in vivo, and suites for behavioural studies.

Our extensive instrumentation facilities include an Image Analysis Unit equipped with electron, confocal and atomic force microscopes, hearing lab, electrophysiological experimental setups for recording from single cells and in vivo, and suites for behavioural studies. Our diverse research provides an excellent environment to tackle challenges of global significance including ageing, the spread, control and treatment of disease using multidisciplinary approaches. 

Research within the Neuroscience PhD programme incorporates the biological, biomedical, chemical and pharmaceutical sciences co-located in the Cockcroft and Huxley Buildings.

This allows experts in numerous fields of research to collaborate on projects both within their disciplines and in truly cross-disciplinary research. Consequently research projects can encompass the use of specialised physiological and behavioural experimental setups, Image Analysis Unit and computational modelling.

Research themes include:

• Basic biology of the CNS
• Learning and memory
• Neural regeneration
• Neuropharmacology
• Sensory neuroscience
• Neuroscience of aging
• Neuroinflammation
• Membrane proteins
• Voltage gated ion channels
• Technology for monitoring of neurotransmitters
• Enteric nervous system
• Neurological disorders

Sensory Neuroscience Research and Enterprise Group

Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Devices

Centre for Lifelong Health

Physiology and biophysics of the mammalian cochlea with focus on cochlear micromechanics and generation of optoacoustic emissions; Hearing impairment as a consequence of genetic mutation, noise and age-related hearing loss; Development of new types of hearing aid and new ways of drug delivery into the cochlea.

My supervisory interests are:

• Development of composite electrodes for bioanalytical monitoring;
• Exploring the signalling mechanisms of the bowel and bladder epithelium
• Development of innovative e-learning tools

Nick supervises PhD students in the area of motor control, experimental psychology and cognitive and motor neuroscience. He is happy to be contacted to discuss potential projects on clinical exercise science, rehabilitation and sports and expert performance. There would be particular benefit to potential PhD students if their proposed programme of research fitted Dr Smeeton鈥檚 research interests.

My research is interested in how age-related changes in serotonergic signalling pathways contributes to dementia, age-related motor dysfunction and faecal incontinence. My groups work uses a systems biology approach to study the effects of increased age on the release of serotonin from both central neurons and peripheral enterochromaffin cells and through the use of a range of functional assays explores how these changes link with impairments in learning and memory, motor and bowel function.

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