Applications are now OPEN for autumn 2014 PhD studentships within the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (CCACE) at The University of Edinburgh. The full advertisement is at http://www.ccace.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Advert%20Sept%202014%20-%2020… and a brief description of potential projects/applicants are below: Are you interested in the mechanisms of cognitive ageing in humans or in model systems? Are you interested in how cerebral small vessel disease affects cognitive ageing? Do you want to use neuroimaging to investigate age-related changes in the brain, study the genetics of cognitive ageing, or translate between experimental mechanisms and human ageing diseases? Then one of our PhD studentships could be for you! Applicants should have a good undergraduate and/or masters degree, as appropriate to the chosen research topic. For example, a neuroscience, biomedical sciences, genetics, molecular biology/medicine, neuroimaging, statistics, physics, mathematics, or engineering related discipline. If you are interested in pursuing one of these studentships, please send an informal email enquiry to David Alexander Dickie, Postdoctoral Fellow, Neuroimaging Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, ddickie1(a)staffmail.ed.ac.uk The closing date for applications is 31st January 2014. Thank you and best of luck!