Join as a graduate student
I am accepting applications for PhD students to start in Fall 2025. Application due 12/01/2024. Please feel free to send me an inquiry email before then if you’d like to.
PhD students can opt to use just behavioral methods, just eyetracking, or both. Applicants with programming experience or a strong motivation to learn programming are preferred (Dr. Ramey can mentor students on R, Python, MATLAB, jsPsych, and/or Julia). Please see the Research page for more details on the types of topics we investigate.
About our PhD program:
The University of Arkansas is an R1 university located in Fayetteville, which is situated in the beautiful Ozark mountains and consistently ranked near the top of US News and World Reports’ best cities to live. The Psychological Science department PhD program provides stipends and tuition for all students. The department is also supported by the Howells endowment, which gives graduate students additional funding via travel funds, fellowships to supplement stipends, and internal research grants. The department is highly collaborative–students are often co-mentored, so if you are interested in that, feel free to reach out.
Join as an undergraduate research assistant
Please complete this application to apply to be a research assistant. (Note that you must use a UArk email address. If you don’t have one, contact Dr. Ramey.)
If you would like to get course credit, you need to apply before the third day of classes due to University credit signup deadlines. However, you can start volunteering at any time (and then get credit the next semester).
The experience gained as a research assistant in the MEM lab will transfer particularly well to careers in medicine (such as optometry, neurology, radiology, general practice), research in psychology and other behavioral experimental areas (e.g., PhD programs, tech industry), UX work, and AI and computer vision.
Participate in our studies
Most of our studies recruit volunteer participants, primarily from the department participant pool.
We do also have paid studies on occasion.
If you would like to participate in our studies, on either a paid or volunteer basis, please contact Dr. Ramey (we will add a formal signup link here in the future). Note that for paid studies, we are primarily looking for participants ages 60 and up.