Undergraduate Research Opportunities
NYU Abu Dhabi students interested in gaining hands-on research experience may be able to get involved in one of the lab projects as volunteer research assistants. We sometimes have paid research positions through the NYUAD student assistantship program. Please get in touch at nyuad.SRBL@nyu.edu.
Capstone Student Research
NYU Abu Dhabi students interested in gender stereotyping, bias, and discrimination or related topics who are looking for a faculty advisor for their Capstone project are encouraged to get in touch with us as early as possible at nyuad.SRBL@nyu.edu. Prospective Capstone researchers in our lab benefit greatly from
getting involved in the lab's research one or two semesters before
the beginning of capstone (e.g., as a volunteer or student assistant).
PROSPECTIVE PHD STUDENTS APPLYING IN FALL 2022
Dr. Andrea Vial will be reviewing PhD applicants in Fall 2022 (for students
interested in starting grad school in 2023) through the
NYU Abu Dhabi Global PhD Student Fellowship, which is offered in collaboration
with the NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science (GSAS).
PhD students admitted through this Fellowship complete two years of classwork at NYU in New York followed by three years of research at NYU Abu Dhabi. If selected, the doctorate is fully funded. Potential candidates apply using the standard NYU GSAS online application. There is no separate application for the NYU Abu Dhabi Global PhD Student Fellowship. You can learn more about the program and the application process here, here, here, and here.
If you are interested in applying to join my NYUAD lab as a PhD student,
you can get a very good sense of what I am currently working on by browsing this website or clicking on my CV. Applicants should also indicate a prospective PhD advisor within the Social Psychology PhD program at NYU in New York.
Advice on applying
In your application, be sure to specifically note which faculty members
you'd like to work with and why (both at NYU-NY and NYU Abu Dhabi). Many successful candidates mention 2 or 3 faculty and say why specifically they are
interested in each faculty member's research.
Your "personal history statement" is a chance to tell the fuller story
of your resume--what your research and intellectual background
has been like so far. What kinds of research and intellectual experiences
have you had? What did you learn and what did that motivate you to learn next? You can also use the personal history statement as a place to mention that you've faced some challenging life circumstances, so we can get a fuller appreciation of you as a candidate. There is no one type of person or background that we're looking for. So please do mention information about yourself that you think we should know.
Your "statement of academic purpose" should then focus on the big ideas and questions that bring you to graduate school. These could be very different from
the questions you have researched so far. This essay is where you can talk
about which faculty you'd like to work with on these questions.
You can let your personality shine through as you write both of these essays. But the statement of academic purpose really should focus on intellectual
and research topics about which you feel passionate.
If you have any questions about the application process that cannot be answered by browsing the links above, please get in touch at nyuad.SRBL@nyu.edu.