How to join the MAGIC-Lab

​​We’re proud to host a dynamic mix of undergraduate, postgraduate, and international students working on exciting projects in our lab. Many students choose to complete their final year projects here, while others join us as research apprentices or work placement students, gaining hands-on experience in cutting-edge research. We also welcome postdoctoral research fellows and magicians eager to dive deeper into the psychology of magic. Our lab offers a collaborative and innovative space where diverse minds come together to explore the fascinating intersection of magic, psychology, and human cognition.

 

Please contact us directly if you are interested in doing a PhD in the lab. You can also check out the School of Psychology post graduate page to find out more about current funding opportunities.  The school of psychology offers PhD student ships as well as fully funded Teaching and Research Associate positions, or you may have identified your own funding body. 

 

See below for some future PhD research projects, but free to suggest your own.  

 

• Experiencing the impossible without sight 

• Magic placebo – Enhancing suggestibility through magic deception

• Redefining the impossible and challenging our beliefs in AI

• Forcing and Free will

• Countering cyber deception

• Debunking paranormal beliefs and pseudoscience