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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is a high level globally-recognised qualification that is rooted in original research.

The qualification is awarded for the outcomes of a period of advanced, individual study which demonstrates an original contribution of new knowledge or practice to your chosen discipline.

Studying for a PhD provides you with a unique and exciting opportunity to explore a research topic in real depth.

At the same time you will learn relevant research and professional skills. You will be expected to take the initiative and to develop your own ideas whilst guided and supported by your supervisory team.

The experience of undertaking a PhD will differ between subject areas. Some PhD projects are deliberately multi- or inter-disciplinary, exploring topics at the boundaries of traditional subjects, or applying approaches associated with a range of disciplines to a single research area.

All of our Academic Schools have PhD opportunities. Search our courses for a particular research area. Alternatively, if you’re not ready for a full PhD programme, we offer Research Master's degrees to prepare students for PhD study.

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Practice-based PhD study is more commonly available in the creative and performing arts, where creative work forms a significant part of the intellectual inquiry.

The research investigation is undertaken partly by means of the creative process, while the thesis is formed of a piece of original creative work supported by a narrative and critique that places the work in an academic context.

We offer a number of practice-based PhDs including:

• the School of Music's PhD by Performance and PhD by Composition ,
• the School of English, Communication and Philosophy's PhD in Creative and Critical Writing .

Designed for those who have already accumulated suitable published work demonstrating a coherent research direction (as much as a conventional PhD).

In addition to the published works, students provide a 5,000 - 10,000 word critical commentary evaluating their field and indicating the original contribution to learning they have made.

To be eligible, you must have:

• graduated from Cardiff University six or more years ago, or
• been a member of staff for six years, or
• been the holder of an honorary title from Cardiff University for six years

If you meet one of these criteria and are interesting in finding out more, please contact your Academic School .

For many subjects the demands of advanced study and research for a PhD require a demonstration of relevant skills and understanding at Master’s level as a condition of entry.

For some PhD programmes there is the need for Master’s level training to be specifically tailored to the demands of PhD research in that discipline. This may be delivered as a linked package (e.g. the "1+3" model), or via a continuous PhD programme that has embedded within it a structured component of preparatory research skills and methods training.

We offer the following Integrated PhDs:

• Integrative Neuroscience (4 year Wellcome Trust)
• Cancer Studies (4 year)
• Economics (4 year PhD including two years of teaching, coursework and research training)
• Social Sciences (1+3 year PhD including 1 year MSc in Social Science Research Methods which is mandatory for ESRC funded students who do not meet the core training requirements)

While the majority of research degrees are taken at universities and other higher education institutions, there are also some opportunities for collaborative study with an external partner.

This may mean, for example, that the project is sponsored by a company, that you spend some of your time in the workplace of the partner or that the partner contributes resources or expertise to the project.

A collaborative PhD can allow you to benefit from the input of industrialists and policy-makers and to experience first-hand the direct impact of your research.

Collaborative PhDs can include:

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Vice-Chancellor's International Scholarship for Research Excellence

Full tuition fee funding and an annual stipend to support self-funding full-time PhD international students for up to three years.

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Professor Christopher Chambers BSc PhD CPsychol FBPsS

Professor, Head of Brain Stimulation

School of Psychology

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Research summary

My primary research focuses on the promotion and effectiveness of open research practices. As part of this work, I co-founded Registered Reports , Exploratory Reports , Verification Reports , the Transparency and Openness Promotion guidelines , the Royal Society Replications initiative , the UK network of open research working groups , the Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative , the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) , the GW4 Undergraduate Psychology Consortium programme for promoting reproducible science, the Royal Society Rapid Review Network for COVID-19 Registered Reports , and the Peer Community in Registered Reports . I currently chair the Registered Reports committee supported by the Center for Open Science, serve on the UKRN steering committee and sit on the Advisory Board of Nature Human Behaviour.

You can contribute to our efforts to improve the reliability and openness of science by supporting my Let's Fund crowdfunder initiative

I am author of the Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice , which won the 2018 British Psychological Society Book Award (Best Academic Monograph) and the 2018 PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers. From 2013-2018 I was a freelancer writer at the Guardian where I co-hosted the psychology blog, Head Quarters

In my scientific research I have used brain stimulation (TMS, TES) and brain imaging techniques (fMRI, MRS, MEG) to understand cognitive control, attention and awareness in the human brain, as well as translational applications of cognitive neuroscience in the domain of obesity and behaviour change. Over the last 15 years, my team has also made methodological contributions to the simultaneous combination of TMS and MRI, in addition to technical advances in TMS methods to improve the precision and reliability of cortical stimulation.

Alongside these interests I have pursued research on the relationship between science and the media, and the role of science in shaping evidence-based public policy.

Publication

• Lloyd, K. E. and Chambers, C. D. 2024. Registered reports: Benefits and challenges of implementing in medicine [Letter] . British Journal of General Practice 74(739), pp. 58-59. ( 10.3399/bjgp24X736185 )
• Smith, S. et al. 2023. Imaging Neuroscience opening editorial . Imaging Neuroscience 1, pp. 1-4. ( 10.1162/imag_e_00007 )
• Tzavella, L. and Chambers, C. D. 2023. Explicit and implicit devaluation effects of food-specific response inhibition training . Journal of Cognition 6(1), article number: 10. ( 10.5334/joc.256 )
• Randle, M., Duarte, I., Maizey, L., Tzavella, L., Adams, R. C. and Chambers, C. D. 2022. The Restrain Food Database: validation of an open-source database of foods that should be eaten more or less as part of a healthy diet . Royal Society Open Science 9(11), article number: 220923. ( 10.1098/rsos.220923 )
• Tzavella, L. and Chambers, C. D. 2022. Response inhibition training and measures of explicit and implicit food valuation . Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 48, article number: 101230. ( 10.1016/j.cobeha.2022.101230 )
• Henderson, E. L. and Chambers, C. D. 2022. Ten simple rules for writing a registered report . PLoS Computational Biology 18(10), article number: e1010571. ( 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010571 )
• Pennington, C. R., Jones, A. J., Tzavella, L., Chambers, C. D. and Button, K. S. 2022. Beyond online participant crowdsourcing: the benefits and opportunities of big team addiction science . Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology 30(4), pp. 444-451. ( 10.1037/pha0000541 )
• Munafò, M. R., Chambers, C., Collins, A., Fortunato, L. and Macleod, M. 2022. The reproducibility debate is an opportunity, not a crisis . BMC Research Notes 15(1), article number: 43. ( 10.1186/s13104-022-05942-3 )
• Chambers, C. D. and Tzavella, L. 2022. The past, present and future of Registered Reports . Nature Human Behaviour 6, pp. 29-42. ( 10.1038/s41562-021-01193-7 )
• Adams, R. C. et al. 2021. Food-related inhibitory control training reduces food liking but not snacking frequency or weight in a large healthy adult sample . Appetite 167, article number: 105601. ( 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105601 )
• Munato, M., Chambers, C., Collins, A., Fortunato, L. and Macleod, M. 2021. From grassroots to global: A blueprint for building a reproducibility network . PLoS Biology 19(11), article number: e3001461. ( 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001461 )
• Chambers, C. D., McIntosh, R. D. and Della Sala, S. 2021. Is ‘right-of-reply’ right for science? . Cortex 142, article number: A1. ( 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.05.014 )
• Clark, R., Drax, K., Chambers, C. D., Munafò, M. and Thompson, J. 2021. Evaluating registered reports funding partnerships: a feasibility study . Wellcome Open Research 6, article number: 231. ( 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17028.1 )
• Drax, K., Clark, R., Chambers, C. D., Munafò, M. and Thompson, J. 2021. A qualitative analysis of stakeholder experiences with registered reports funding partnerships . Wellcome Open Research 6, article number: 230. ( 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17029.1 )
• Tzavella, L. et al. 2021. Effects of go/no-go training on food-related action tendencies, liking and choice . Royal Society Open Science 8(8), article number: 210666. ( 10.1098/rsos.210666 )
• Sumner, P., Schwartz, L. M., Woloshin, S., Bratton, L. and Chambers, C. D. 2021. Disclosure of study funding and author conflicts of interest in press releases and the news: A retrospective content analysis with two cohorts . BMJ Open 11, article number: e041385. ( 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041385 )
• Tzavella, L., Maizey, L., Lawrence, A. D. and Chambers, C. D. 2020. The affective priming paradigm as an indirect measure of food attitudes and related choice behaviour . Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 27, pp. 1397-1415. ( 10.3758/s13423-020-01764-1 )
• Maizey, L., Evans, C. J., Muhlert, N., Vergruggen, F., Chambers, C. D. and Allen, C. P. G. 2020. Cortical and subcortical functional specificity associated with response inhibition . NeuroImage 220, article number: 117110. ( 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117110 )
• Sedgmond, J., Chambers, C., Lawrence, N. and Adams, R. C. 2020. No evidence that prefrontal HD-tDCS influences cue-induced food craving . Behavioral Neuroscience 134(5), pp. 369-383. ( 10.1037/bne0000345 )
• Brouwers, K., Cooke, A., Chambers, C. D., Henson, R. and Tibon, R. 2020. Evidence for prereg posters as a platform for preregistration . Nature Human Behaviour 4, pp. 884-886. ( 10.1038/s41562-020-0868-z )
• Allen, C., Viola, T., Irvine, E., Sedgmond, J., Castle, H., Gray, R. and Chambers, C. D. 2020. Causal manipulation of feed-forward and recurrent processing differentially affects measures of consciousness . Neuroscience of Consciousness 2020(1), article number: niaa015. ( 10.1093/nc/niaa015 )
• Chambers, C. D. 2020. Verification reports: a new article type at Cortex . Cortex 129, pp. A1-A3. ( 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.04.020 )
• McIntosh, R. D. and Chambers, C. D. 2020. The three R's of scientific integrity: replicability, reproducibility, and robustness . Cortex 129, pp. A4-A7. ( 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.04.019 )
• Chambers, C. D. 2020. Frontloading selectivity: a third way in scientific publishing? . PLOS Biology 18(3), article number: e3000693. ( 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000693 )
• Button, K. S., Chambers, C. D., Lawrence, N. and Munafò, M. R. 2020. Grassroots training for reproducible science: a consortium-based approach to the empirical dissertation . Psychology Learning and Teaching 19(1), pp. 77-90. ( 10.1177/1475725719857659 )
• Munafò, M. R., Chambers, C. D., Collins, A. M., Fortunato, L. and Macleod, M. R. 2020. Research culture and reproducibility . Trends in Cognitive Sciences 24(2), pp. 91-93. ( 10.1016/j.tics.2019.12.002 )
• Aczel, B. et al. 2020. A consensus-based transparency checklist . Nature Human Behaviour 4(4-6) ( 10.1038/s41562-019-0772-6 )
• Bratton, L., Adams, R. C., Challenger, A., Boivin, J., Bott, L., Chambers, C. D. and Sumner, P. 2020. Causal claims about correlations reduced in press releases following academic study of health news . Wellcome Open Research 5, article number: 6. ( 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15647.1 )
• Bratton, L., Adams, R. C., Challenger, A., Boivin, J., Bott, L., Chambers, C. D. and Sumner, P. 2019. The association between exaggeration in health-related science news and academic press releases: a replication study . Wellcome Open Research 4, article number: 148. ( 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15486.2 )
• Walker, L. A., Chambers, C. D., Veling, H. and Lawrence, N. S. 2019. Cognitive and environmental interventions to encourage healthy eating: evidence-based recommendations for public health policy . Royal Society Open Science 6(10), article number: 190624. ( 10.1098/rsos.190624 )
• Chambers, C. 2019. What's next for registered reports? . Nature 573(7773), pp. 187-189. ( 10.1038/d41586-019-02674-6 )
• Adams, R. C., Sedgmond, J., Maizey, L., Chambers, C. D. and Lawrence, N. S. 2019. Food addiction: Implications for the diagnosis and treatment of overeating . Nutrients 11(9), article number: 2086. ( 10.3390/nu11092086 )
• Chambers, C. 2019. The registered reports revolution Lessons in cultural reform . Significance 16(4), pp. 23-27. ( 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2019.01299.x )
• Adams, R. C., Chambers, C. D. and Lawrence, N. S. 2019. Do restrained eaters show increased BMI, food craving and disinhibited eating? A comparison of the Restraint Scale and the Restrained Eating scale of the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire . Royal Society Open Science 6(6), pp. 190174. ( 10.1098/rsos.190174 )
• Adams, R. C. et al. 2019. Claims of causality in health news: a randomised trial . BMC Medicine 17, article number: 91. ( 10.1186/s12916-019-1324-7 )
• Verbruggen, F. et al. 2019. A consensus guide to capturing the ability to inhibit actions and impulsive behaviors in the stop-signal task . eLife 8, article number: e46323. ( 10.7554/eLife.46323 )
• Chambers, C. D. 2019. The battle for reproducibility over storytelling [Editorial] . Cortex 113, pp. A1. ( 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.03.009 )
• Kythreotis, A. P. et al. 2019. Citizen Social Science for more integrative and effective climate action: a science-policy perspective . Frontiers in Environmental Science 7, article number: 10. ( 10.3389/fenvs.2019.00010 )
• Sedgmond, J., Lawrence, N., Verbruggen, F., Morrison, S., Chambers, C. D. and Adams, R. 2019. Prefrontal brain stimulation during food-related inhibition training: Effects on food craving, food consumption and inhibitory control . Royal Society Open Science 6, article number: 181186. ( 10.1098/rsos.181186 )
• Chambers, C. D., Forstmann, B. and Pruszynski, J. A. 2019. Science in flux: Registered reports and beyond at the European Journal of Neuroscience . European Journal of Neuroscience 49(1), pp. 4-5. ( 10.1111/ejn.14319 )
• Walker, L. et al. 2019. Supporting evidence-informed policy and scrutiny: a consultation of UK research professionals . PLoS ONE 14(3), article number: e0214136. ( 10.1371/journal.pone.0214136 )
• Chambers, C. D. 2018. Announcing a registered reports special issue at Cortex for the ABCD study . Cortex ( 10.1016/j.cortex.2018.09.012 )
• Chambers, C. D. and Mellor, D. T. 2018. Protocol transparency is vital for registered reports . Nature Human Behaviour 29, pp. 791-792. ( 10.1038/s41562-018-0449-6 )
• Chambers, C. D. 2018. Introducing the transparency and openness promotion (TOP) guidelines and badges for open practices at Cortex . Cortex 106, pp. 316-318. ( 10.1016/j.cortex.2018.08.001 )
• Houtkoop, B. L., Chambers, C., Macleod, M., Bishop, D., Nichols, T. and Wagenmakers, E. 2018. Data sharing in psychology: a survey on barriers and preconditions . Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 1(1), pp. 70-85. ( 10.1177/2515245917751886 )
• Allen, C., Singh, K. D., Verbruggen, F. and Chambers, C. D. 2018. Evidence for parallel activation of the pre-supplementary motor area and inferior frontal cortex during response inhibition: a combined MEG and TMS study . Royal Society Open Science 5(2), article number: 171369. ( 10.1098/rsos.171369 )
• Benjamin, D. J. et al. 2018. Redefine statistical significance . Nature Human Behaviour 2, pp. 6-10. ( 10.1038/s41562-017-0189-z )
• Campbell, A. E., Chambers, C. D., Allen, C. P. G., Hedge, C. and Sumner, P. 2017. Impairment of manual but not saccadic response inhibition following acute alcohol intoxication . Drug and Alcohol Dependence 181, pp. 242-254. ( 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.08.022 )
• Lawrence, N. S., Chambers, J., Morrison, S. M., Bestman, S., O'Grady, G. N., Chambers, C. D. and Kythreotis, A. P. 2017. The Evidence Information Service as a new platform for supporting evidence-based policy: a consultation of UK parliamentarians . Evidence & Policy 13(2), pp. 275-316. ( 10.1332/174426416X14643531912169 )
• Adams, R. C. et al. 2017. How readers understand causal and correlational expressions used in news headlines . Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 23(1), pp. 1-14. ( 10.1037/xap0000100 )
• Chambers, C. D., Forstmann, B. and Pruszynski, J. A. 2017. Registered reports at the European Journal of Neuroscience : consolidating and extending peer-reviewed study pre-registration . European Journal of Neuroscience 45(5), pp. 627-628. ( 10.1111/ejn.13519 )
• Adams, R. C., Lawrence, N., Verbruggen, F. and Chambers, C. D. 2017. Training response inhibition to reduce food consumption: Mechanisms, stimulus specificity and appropriate training protocols . Appetite 109, pp. 11-23. ( 10.1016/j.appet.2016.11.014 )
• Sanders, J. et al. 2017. Transparency and openness in science [Editorial] . Royal Society Open Science 4(1), article number: 160979. ( 10.1098/rsos.160979 )
• Munafò, M. R. et al. 2017. A manifesto for reproducible science . Nature Human Behaviour 1(1), article number: 21. ( 10.1038/s41562-016-0021 )
• Verbruggen, F., Chambers, C. D., Lawrence, N. S. and McLaren, I. P. L. 2017. Winning and losing: Effects on impulsive action . Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 43(1), pp. 147-168. ( 10.1037/xhp0000284 )
• Rusconi, E., Sedgmond, J., Bolgan, S. and Chambers, C. D. 2016. Brain matters..in Social Sciences . AIMS Neuroscience 3(3), pp. 253-263. ( 10.3934/Neuroscience.2016.3.253 )
• Elchlepp, H., Lavric, A., Chambers, C. D. and Verbruggen, F. 2016. Proactive inhibitory control: a general biasing account . Cognitive Psychology 86, pp. 27-61. ( 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2016.01.004 )
• Morey, R. D. et al. 2016. The Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative: incentivizing open research practices through peer review . Royal Society Open Science 3(1), article number: 150547. ( 10.1098/rsos.150547 )
• Sumner, P. et al. 2016. Exaggerations and caveats in press releases and health-related science news . PloS One 11(12), article number: e0168217. ( 10.1371/journal.pone.0168217 )
• Lawrence, N. S. et al. 2015. Training response inhibition to food is associated with weight loss and reduced energy intake . Appetite 95, pp. 17-28. ( 10.1016/j.appet.2015.06.009 )
• Nosek, B. A. et al. 2015. Promoting an open research culture . Science 348(6242), pp. 1422-1425. ( 10.1126/science.aab2374 )
• Chambers, C. D., Dienes, Z., McIntosh, R. D., Rotshtein, P. and Willmes, K. 2015. Registered reports: realigning incentives in scientific publishing . Cortex 66, pp. A1-A2. ( 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.03.022 )
• Stevens, T. et al. 2015. How does response inhibition influence decision making when gambling? . Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 21(1), pp. 15-36. ( 10.1037/xap0000039 )
• Lawrence, N. S., Verbruggen, F., Morrison, S., Adams, R. C. and Chambers, C. D. 2015. Stopping to food can reduce intake. Effects of stimulus-specificity and individual differences in dietary restraint . Appetite 85, pp. 91-103. ( 10.1016/j.appet.2014.11.006 )
• Chambers, C. D. 2015. Ten reasons why journals must review manuscripts before results are known . Addiction 110(1), pp. 10-11. ( 10.1111/add.12728 )
• Sumner, P. et al. 2014. The association between exaggeration in health related science news and academic press releases: Retrospective observational study . The BMJ 349, article number: g7015. ( 10.1136/bmj.g7015 )
• Verbruggen, F., McLaren, I. P. L. and Chambers, C. D. 2014. Banishing the control homunculi in studies of action control and behavior change . Perspectives on Psychological Science 9(5), pp. 497-524. ( 10.1177/1745691614526414 )
• Verbruggen, F., Stevens, T. and Chambers, C. D. 2014. Proactive and reactive stopping when distracted: an attentional account . Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 40(4), pp. 1295-1300. ( 10.1037/a0036542 )
• Allen, C. P. G., Sumner, P. and Chambers, C. D. 2014. The timing and neuroanatomy of conscious vision as revealed by TMS-induced blindsight . Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 26(7), pp. 1507-1518. ( 10.1162/jocn_a_00557 )
• Allen, C. et al. 2014. Enhanced awareness followed reversible inhibition of human visual cortex: a combined TMS, MRS and MEG study . PLoS ONE 9(6), pp. e100350. ( 10.1371/journal.pone.0100350 )
• Chambers, C. D., Feredoes, E., Muthukumaraswamy, S. D. and Etchells, P. 2014. Instead of "playing the game" it is time to change the rules: Registered Reports at AIMS Neuroscience and beyond . AIMS Neuroscience 1(1), pp. 4-17. ( 10.3934/Neuroscience.2014.1.4 )
• Cummins, T. D. R. et al. 2014. Alpha-2A adrenergic receptor gene variants are associated with increased intra-individual variability in response time . Molecular Psychiatry 19, pp. 1031-1036. ( 10.1038/mp.2013.140 )
• Newman, D. P. et al. 2014. Dopamine transporter genotype is associated with a lateralized resistance to distraction during attention selection . Journal of Neuroscience 34(47), pp. 15743-15750. ( 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2327-14.2014 )
• Verbruggen, F., Adams, R. C., Van't Wout, F., Stevens, T., McLaren, I. and Chambers, C. D. 2013. Are the effects of response inhibition on gambling long-lasting? . PLoS ONE 8(7), article number: e70155. ( 10.1371/journal.pone.0070155 )
• Varnava, A., Dervinis, M. and Chambers, C. D. 2013. The predictive nature of pseudoneglect for visual neglect: Evidence from parietal theta burst stimulation . Plos One 8(6), article number: e65851. ( 10.1371/journal.pone.0065851 )
• Verbruggen, F., Chambers, C. D. and Logan, G. 2013. Fictitious inhibitory differences: How skewness and slowing distort the estimation of stopping latencies . Psychological Science 24(3), pp. 352-362. ( 10.1177/0956797612457390 )
• Maizey, L. et al. 2013. Comparative incidence rates of mild adverse effects to transcranial magnetic stimulation . Clinical Neurophysiology 124(3), pp. 536-544. ( 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.07.024 )
• Chambers, C. D. 2013. Registered Reports: A new publishing initiative at Cortex [Editorial] . Cortex 49(3), pp. 609-610. ( 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.12.016 )
• Chambers, C. D., Allen, C. P. G., Maizey, L. and Williams, M. A. 2013. Is delayed foveal feedback critical for extra-foveal perception? . Cortex 49(1), pp. 327-335. ( 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.03.007 )
• Stokes, M. G., Barker, A. T., Dervinis, M., Verbruggen, F., Maizey, L., Adams, R. C. and Chambers, C. D. 2013. Biophysical determinants of transcranial magnetic stimulation: Effects of excitability and depth of targeted area . Journal of Neurophysiology 109(2), pp. 437-444. ( 10.1152/jn.00510.2012 )
• Rusconi, E., Dervinis, M., Verbruggen, F. and Chambers, C. D. 2013. Critical Time Course of Right Frontoparietal Involvement in Mental Number Space . Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 25(3), pp. 465-483. ( 10.1162/jocn_a_00330 )
• Cummins, T. D. R. et al. 2012. Dopamine transporter genotype predicts behavioural and neural measures of response inhibition . Molecular Psychiatry 17, pp. 1086-1092. ( 10.1038/mp.2011.104 )
• Klemen, J., Hoffmann, M. B. and Chambers, C. 2012. Cortical plasticity in the face of congenitally altered input into V1 . Cortex 48(10), pp. 1362-1365. ( 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.03.012 )
• Bungert, A., Chambers, C. D., Long, E. and Evans, C. J. 2012. On the importance of specialized radiofrequency filtering for concurrent TMS/MRI . Journal of Neuroscience Methods 210(2), pp. 202-205. ( 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2012.07.023 )
• Verbruggen, F., Adams, R. C. and Chambers, C. D. 2012. Proactive motor control reduces monetary risk taking in gambling . Psychological Science 23(7), pp. 805-815. ( 10.1177/0956797611434538 )
• Cai, W., George, J. S., Verbruggen, F., Chambers, C. D. and Aron, A. R. 2012. The role of the right pre-supplementary motor area in stopping action: two studies with event-related transcranial magnetic stimulation . Journal of Neurophysiology 108(2), pp. 380-389. ( 10.1152/jn.00132.2012 )
• Bungert, A., Chambers, C. D., Phillips, M. and Evans, C. J. 2012. Reducing image artefacts in concurrent TMS/fMRI by passive shimming . NeuroImage 59(3), pp. 2167-2174. ( 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.10.013 )
• Klemen, J. and Chambers, C. D. 2012. Current perspectives and methods in studying neural mechanisms of multisensory interactions . Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 36(1), pp. 111-133. ( 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2011.04.015 )
• Adams, R. C. and Chambers, C. D. 2012. Mapping the timecourse of goal-directed attention to location and colour in human vision . Acta Psychologica 139(3), pp. 515-523. ( 10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.01.014 )
• Cai, W., George, J. S., Chambers, C. D., Stokes, M. G., Verbruggen, F. and Aron, A. R. 2012. Stimulating deep cortical structures with the batwing coil: How to determine the intensity for transcranial magnetic stimulation using coil-cortex distance . Journal of Neuroscience Methods 204(2), pp. 238-241. ( 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.11.020 )
• Garner, K. G., Dux, P. E., Wagner, J., Cummins, T. D. R., Chambers, C. D. and Bellgrove, M. A. 2012. Attentional asymmetries in a visual orienting task are related to temperament . Cognition & Emotion 26(8), pp. 1508-1515. ( 10.1080/02699931.2012.666205 )
• Heinen, K. et al. 2011. Concurrent TMS-fMRI reveals dynamic interhemispheric influences of the right parietal cortex during exogenously cued visuospatial attention . European Journal of Neuroscience 33(5), pp. 991-1000. ( 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07580.x )
• Kurniawan, V., Klemen, J. and Chambers, C. D. 2011. Microcontroller based fibre-optic visual presentation system for multisensory neuroimaging . Journal of Neuroscience Methods 202(1), pp. 28-37. ( 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.08.033 )
• Varnava, A., Stokes, M. G. and Chambers, C. D. 2011. Reliability of the 'observation of movement' method for determining motor threshold using transcranial magnetic stimulation . Journal of Neuroscience Methods 201(2), pp. 327-332. ( 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.08.016 )
• Baker, K. S., Mattingley, J. B., Chambers, C. D. and Cunnington, R. 2011. Attention and the readiness for action . Neuropsychologia 49(12), pp. 3303-3313. ( 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.08.003 )
• Klemen, J., Verbruggen, F., Skelton, C. and Chambers, C. D. 2011. Enhancement of perceptual representations by endogenous attention biases competition in response selection . Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 73(8), pp. 2514-2527. ( 10.3758/s13414-011-0188-5 )
• Verbruggen, F., Aron, A. R., Stevens, M. A. and Chambers, C. D. 2010. Theta burst stimulation dissociates attention and action updating in human inferior frontal cortex . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(31), pp. 13966-13971. ( 10.1073/pnas.1001957107 )
• Chambers, C. D. and Heinen, K. 2010. TMS and the functional neuroanatomy of attention . Cortex 46(1), pp. 114-117. ( 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.03.002 )
• Bellgrove, M. A. et al. 2009. Dopaminergic haplotype as a predictor of spatial inattention in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder . Archives of General Psychiatry 66(10), pp. 1135-1142. ( 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.120 )
• Chambers, C. D., Garavan, H. and Bellgrove, M. A. 2009. Insights into the neural basis of response inhibition from cognitive and clinical neuroscience . Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 33(5), pp. 631-646. ( 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.08.016 )
• Schenkluhn, B., Ruff, C. C., Heinen, K. and Chambers, C. D. 2008. Parietal stimulation decouples spatial and feature-based attention . Journal of Neuroscience 28(44), pp. 11106-11110. ( 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3591-08.2008 )
• Chambers, C. D. 2008. A stimulating take on attention . Psychologist 21(6), pp. 502-505.
• Chambers, C. D. et al. 2007. Dissociable Mechanisms of Cognitive Control in Prefrontal and Premotor Cortex . Journal of Neurophysiology 98(6), pp. 3638-3647. ( 10.1152/jn.00685.2007 )
• Stokes, M. G., Chambers, C. D., Gould, I. C., English, T., McNaught, E., McDonald, O. and Mattingley, J. B. 2007. Distance-adjusted motor threshold for transcranial magnetic stimulation . Clinical Neurophysiology 118(7), pp. 1617-1625. ( 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.04.004 )
• Morris, A. P., Chambers, C. D. and Mattingley, J. B. 2007. Parietal stimulation destabilizes spatial updating across saccadic eye movements . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(21), pp. 9069-9074. ( 10.1073/pnas.0610508104 )
• Chambers, C. D., Payne, J. M. and Mattingley, J. B. 2007. Parietal disruption impairs reflexive spatial attention within and between sensory modalities . Neuropsychologia 45(8), pp. 1715-1724. ( 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.01.001 )
• Bellgrove, M. A. et al. 2007. Dopaminergic genotype biases spatial attention in healthy children . Molecular Psychiatry 12(8), pp. 786-792. ( 10.1038/sj.mp.4002022 )
• Chambers, C. D. et al. 2006. Executive "Brake Failure" following deactivation of human frontal lobe . Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 18(3), pp. 444-455. ( 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.3.444 )
• Chambers, C. D., Stokes, M. G., Janko, N. E. and Mattingley, J. B. 2006. Enhancement of visual selection during transient disruption of parietal cortex . Brain Research 1097(1), pp. 149-155. ( 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.04.084 )
• Bellgrove, M. A., Chambers, C. D., Vance, A., Hall, N., Karamitsios, M. and Bradshaw, J. L. 2005. Lateralized deficit of response inhibition in early-onset schizophrenia . Psychological Medicine 36(4), pp. 495-505. ( 10.1017/S0033291705006409 )
• Stokes, M. G., Chambers, C. D., Gould, I. C., Henderson, T. R., Janko, N. E., Allen, N. B. and Mattingley, J. B. 2005. Simple Metric For Scaling Motor Threshold Based on Scalp-Cortex Distance: Application to Studies Using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation . Journal of Neurophysiology 94(6), pp. 4520-4527. ( 10.1152/jn.00067.2005 )
• Chambers, C. D. and Mattingley, J. B. 2005. Neurodisruption of selective attention: insights and implications . Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9(11), pp. 542-550. ( 10.1016/j.tics.2005.09.010 )
• Chambers, C. D., Mattingley, J. B. and Moss, S. A. 2005. Does selective attention influence the octave illusion? . Perception 34(2), pp. 217-229. ( 10.1068/p5164 )
• Chambers, C. D. 2005. Staring in the Eye of Auditory Neglect: Comments on ‘Gaze Direction Modulates Auditory Spatial Deficits in Stroke Patients with Neglect’ . Cortex 41(2), pp. 117-120. ( 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70886-4 )
• Chambers, C. D., Stokes, M. G. and Mattingley, J. B. 2004. Modality-Specific Control of Strategic Spatial Attention in Parietal Cortex . Neuron 44(6), pp. 925-930. ( 10.1016/j.neuron.2004.12.009 )
• Chambers, C. D., Payne, J. M., Stokes, M. G. and Mattingley, J. B. 2004. Fast and slow parietal pathways mediate spatial attention . Nature Neuroscience 7(3), pp. 217-218. ( 10.1038/nn1203 )
• Chambers, C. D., Mattingley, J. B. and Moss, S. A. 2004. The suppression model remains unsound: A reply to Deutsch . Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 11(4), pp. 677-680. ( 10.3758/BF03196619 )
• Chambers, C. D., Mattingley, J. B. and Moss, S. A. 2004. Reconsidering evidence for the suppression model of the octave illusion . Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 11(4), pp. 642-666. ( 10.3758/BF03196617 )
• Morris, A. P., Kritikos, A., Berberovic, N., Pisella, L., Chambers, C. D. and Mattingley, J. B. 2004. Prism adaptation and spatial attention: A study of visual search in normals and patients with unilateral neglect . Cortex 40(4-5), pp. 703-721. ( 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70166-7 )
• Chambers, C. D. and Brown, M. 2003. Timing accuracy under Microsoft Windows revealed through external chronometry . Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers 35(1), pp. 96-108. ( 10.3758/BF03195501 )
• Chambers, C. D., Mattingley, J. B. and Moss, S. A. 2002. The octave illusion revisited: Suppression or fusion between ears? . Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 28(6), pp. 1288-1302. ( 10.1037//0096-1523.28.6.1288 )

My research addresses questions across a range of fields. My primary interest is the field of metascience, especially research on the effectiveness of open research practices including Registered Reports and related policy initiatives for improving scientific quality. Within cognitive neuroscience, I have interests in understanding attention and impulse control, and translational applications in clinical fields such as addiction.

In 2012 I jointly established the Insciout research group together with Petroc Sumner, Jacky Boivin and Andy Williams. Insciout was a collaborative project between the School of Psychology and the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. Our aim was to identify causes of error in the translation of science to the news, and to develop evidence-based guidelines for best practice in science/media interactions. Some of our key publications in this area can be read here and here .

In 2014 I formed a research team that proposed the formation of the UK Evidence Information Service , a research-led initiative that would facilitate interaction between academia and politicians in the service of evidence-based policy. In 2016 we published the results of the first community-led consultation of UK parliamentarians in this field, which suggest that the proposed service would have high demand among MPs. Our final report on the proposal can be found here .

Current major grants:

• Chambers, C.D. European Research Council Consolidator Grant, ‘The psychology and neurobiology of cognitive control training in humans’, 2015-2022 (€1,998,305).
• Chambers, C.D. Laura and John Arnold Foundation, 'Encouraging Registered Reports', 2020-2023 (£188,679)
• Chambers, C.D. Registered Reports crowdfunder https://lets-fund.org/better-science/

Previous major grants:

• Chambers, C.D. & Verbruggen, F.L.J. BBSRC Project Grant (U.K.), ‘Neural dynamics of response inhibition and gambling across the lifespan’, 2013-2016 (£882,321).
• Chambers, C.D., Verbruggen, F.L.J., Boy, F., Dymond, S. & Lawrence, N. Wellcome Trust ISSF Seedcorn Grant (U.K.), ‘Can GABAergic brain stimulation promote risk aversion in gambling?’, 2013-2015 (£33,572).
• Verbruggen F.L.J, Chambers, C.D., Lavric, A. & McLaren, I. Economic and Social Research Council (U.K.) ‘Do executive motor-control mechanisms regulate monetary choice and gambling?’, 2012-2015 (£546,626).
• Bellgrove, M.A., Hester, R., Chambers, C.D., Garavan, H. & Hawi, Z. National Health and Medical Research Council project grant (Australia) ‘Genetic and physiological mechanisms of executive control’, 2011-2014 ($541,048).
• Chambers, C.D., Singh, K., Wise, R., Jones, D., Jiles, D, & Bestmann, S. Academic Expertise For Business grant (Welsh Assembly) ‘The integrated brain imaging and stimulation project (IBIS)’, 2010-2013 (£349,885).
• Chambers, C.D. BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship (U.K.), ‘Investigating the neural basis of selective attention in the human brain: A combined neurodisruption and neuroimaging study, 2006-2011 (£421,754).
• Chambers, C.D. & Driver, J. BBSRC Project Grant (U.K.), ‘Multisensory dynamics of selective attention in the human brain: A combined neurodisruption and neuroimaging project’, 2007-2011 (£403,884).
• Bellgrove, M.A. & Chambers, C.D. ARC Project Grant (Australia), 'The cognitive neuroscience of executive control: behavioural, physiological and genetic mechanisms’, 2007-2010 ($319,000).

Research topics and related papers

Open science.

Psychology and cognitive neuroscience are in the midst of a credibility revolution that is being advanced through the adoption of practices that boost the transparency of the research process. Since 2014 I have served as chair of the Registered Reports Committee of the Center for Open Science (COS) . Registered Reports are a form of empirical article that tackles publication bias and various forms of reporting bias (such as p -hacking and hindsight bias ) by conducting peer review before data collection and analysis. I am also a member of the COS Transparency and Openness (TOP) Guidelines committee, which proposes a series of guidelines for academic journals to improve the credibility of published work. In 2015 we published the TOP guidelines in the journal Science , led by COS Executive Director Brian Nosek. I have also worked closely with colleagues to establish the Royal Society Replications initiative , the Exploratory Reports and Verification Reports article types, the UK network of open research working groups , the Peer Reviewers' Openness Initiative , the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) , the GW4 Undergraduate Psychology Consortium programme for promoting reproducible science, and the Royal Society Rapid Review Network for COVID-19 Registered Reports .

Cognitive control

Neural mechanisms of cognitive control enable us to coordinate, execute, and update behaviour. The prefrontal cortex has long been associated with cognitive control but the architecture of the prefrontal system is one of the great unsolved mysteries in cognitive neuroscience. Within the broad field of cognitive control (or ‘executive functions’), our research focuses on understanding the neural basis of response inhibition, response selection, and the link between inhibition and risk-taking (including gambling and eating behaviour ), principally through the application of training methods, TMS and TES.

Attention and awareness

Our sensory environment contains a vast quantity of information, only a fraction of which can guide behaviour. Brain mechanisms of attention are crucial for enhancing the processing of stimuli that are relevant to current goals. Within the field of attention, our research focuses on the use of TMS and fMRI to understand the cognitive neuroscience of attentional control and spatial representations. We are also interested in the neurophysiology and neurochemistry that supports consciousness in the occipital and frontal cortex.

Concurrent TMS and MRI

The combination of TMS and neuroimaging (MRI, EEG) provides a unique window on human brain function, with broad applications and implications across the cognitive and clinical neurosciences. By applying TMS within the MRI scanner, we can directly observe the physiological consequences of stimulation both locally (at the site of stimulation) and in remote interconnected brain regions. The integration of TMS and different imaging techniques also holds great promise for revealing the mechanism by which TMS influences neurophysiology and neurovascular coupling.

We previously established concurrent TMS-MRI at CUBRIC via the Academic Expertise for Business (A4B) grant programme, an initiative of the Welsh Assembly Government that funds links between academia and industry in Wales. Our industrial partners on this project were Welsh neuromedical companies Magstim and Dymed . Together we developed passive shim technology that nearly eliminates one major source of interference between TMS and MRI .

TMS methods

The application of TMS in cognitive neuroscience carries a variety of technical and interpretative challenges. As a neurostimulation method, one critical issue is the control of TMS intensity. What strength of TMS is sufficient to yield effective (but not excessive) stimulation of cortical tissue? We have found that the extent of cortical activity during TMS is steeply related to the distance between the scalp and cortex. Even a difference of 1mm in the scalp-cortex distance between different sites can have a measurable and reliable effect on TMS-evoked behaviour. We have therefore developed a scaling method for calibrating the intensity of TMS according to scalp-cortex distance , thus enabling more precise and comparable stimulation of different regions.

The relationship between science and the media - the Insciout project

We are interested in how press releases issued by universities and academic journals influence the reporting of science news in the media. By understanding both positive and negative effects we aim to formulate an evidence-based policy for maximizing the impact and accuracy of science-related public relations. This project is supported by an ESRC transformative grant, the Wellcome Trust, and the British Psychological Society. It also benefits from our close relationship with the Science Media Centre .

Learn more about InSciOut .

The Evidence Information Service

From 2014-2019 we undertook research on the potential value of a new service to facilitate communication between academic researchers and UK politicians and civil servants. The aim of the Evidence Information Service (EIS) would be to act as a rapid matchmaking and advisory service, connecting politicians with experts in academia and industry. The EIS would host a database of scientists who are willing to commit their time voluntarily to help policy makers obtain and interpret the most reliable evidence on specific issues. Such activities will include the provision and explanation of peer-reviewed literature, statistical consulting, and the critical assessment of data or conclusions.

Read the summary of our 2015 national consultation exercise with UK parliamentarians and our final report .

Research group

Since 2008 my team has been made up of staff and students from a wide range  of backgrounds, including physics, neuroscience, and experimental psychology. Current members are listed below.

Postdoctoral fellows:

Dr Loukia Tzavella

Research assistants:

Dr Mark Randle

Ines Duarte

PhD Students:

Aoife O'Mahony

Ben Meghreblian

Current academic teaching.

• MSc Psychology (2020-)
• BSc Psychology: Ad hoc lecture, university placement supervisor and final year project supervisor (2009-)

Professional workshops

• Since 2006 I have run many workshops for researchers in two main areas: open research practices (primarily Registered Reports) and brain stimulation methods. See here for a selected list of slides from recent talks and workshops. All are free to use under a CC0 creative commons license .

Undergraduate education

• Bachelor of Science (Behavioural) with Honours (1st class), Monash University, 1998.

Postgraduate education and qualifications

• PhD in Experimental Psychology, Monash University, 2002
• Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol), British Psychological Society, 2011.
• Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

Previous Appointments

Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CUBRIC Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Group, Cardiff University (2008-2014) BBSRC David Phillips Fellow, School of Psychology,  Cardiff University (2008-2011) BBSRC David Phillips Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London (2006-2008) NHMRC Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia (2004-2006) NHMRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia (2002-2004)

Current Editorships

Managing Board, Peer Community in Registered Reports Academic Editor, PLOS Biology Subject Editor, Royal Society Open Science

Invited Lectures

I give many invited talks and keynote lectures per year, primarily on Registered Reports and open research practices. Contact me if you would like me to speak at your event. See here for a selected list of slides from recent talks and workshops. All are free to use under a CC0 creative commons license .

Key External Roles

Steering Group, UK Reproducibility Network (2019-) Chair, COS Registered Reports committee (2014-) SMC Advisory Committee (2014-2017) Credibility Advisory Board , British Neuroscience Association (2018-2023) Advisory Board, Nature Human Behaviour (2018-) Freelance writer and co-host of the Guardian psychology blog, Head quarters (2013-2018)

Declaration of Competing Interests

I receive or have received honoraria for my editorial work at BMJ Open Science , Cortex , European Journal of Neuroscience , NeuroImage: Reports , and Royal Society Open Science and I receive annual book royalties from Princeton University Press for Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology . I also receive or have received occasional honororia/income for grant reviews, academic examining, UKRI mentoring, external teaching/lecturing, prizes/awards, public speaking, freelance science writing, and other media commentary. All non-financial interests, including key external roles, are declared on these pages. Other than where noted in specific publications, I declare no financial or non-financial conflicts of interest in any publications. Where no funding sources are stated in my publications, my contribution to the work was supported by no funding other than that provided by my university employer at the time. This declaration is accurate as of 28 April 2023 and will be updated periodically.

Honours and awards

• British Psychological Society, 2007 Spearman Medal, British Psychological Society
• British Psychological Society, 2018 Book Award, Best Academic Monograph: the Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice
• Association of American Publishers 2018 PROSE Award in Psychology , for the Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology: A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice
• Fellow of the British Psychological Society FBPsS (2011)
• Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (2018)

Supervisions

Postgraduate research interests.

I am happy to discuss projects that fall within the scope of:

• Metascience and open research practices
• Evidence-based public policy
• The relationship between science and the media

Current supervision

Research student

Aoife O'mahony

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