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A PhD scholarship is available for students with a background in physics, neuroscience, engineering to join the School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences and the Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland. . The successful candidates will be enrolled in a higher degree (PhD) by research at the University of Queensland and carry out a research project focused on memory in traumatic brain injury. Prospective memory, or memory for intentions, is a common problem for people with severe traumatic brain injury. Compensatory strategy training combined with a metacognitive approach to rehabilitation may assist in reducing failures of prospective memory in everyday life. This project aims to evaluate whether a 6-week prospective memory rehabilitation programme is associated with functional and structural changes in the brain using a mulit-modality imaging approach. It will involve studying a prospective memory task suitable for use within a MRI scanner, testing the task with non-injured controls, and evaluating pre-post intervention effects using functional MRI. Applicants will need to enrol full time into the phD program. A background in human MRI, image processing and programming will be highly desirable. For more information, you can email [log in to unmask]