Themes

Work within our centre falls within five broad themes:

  • Health, stress and wellbeing
  • Learning and development
  • Brain, cognition and perception
  • Identity, self and society and forensic
  • Investigative psychology

Health, stress and wellbeing

Our research focuses on improving physical and mental health and wellbeing across the lifespan.

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Learning and development

This research group works at the intersection of developmental and educational psychology.

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Brain, cognition and perception

Our research explores the neural and psychological mechanisms underlying key cognitive processes, particularly language, memory, visual perception and decision-making.

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Identity, self and society

A wide range of psychological research conducted at the Centre for Psychological Sciences focuses on the broad themes of Identity, self and society.

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Forensic and investigative psychology

The Forensic and Investigative research group is concerned with applying psychological theory and empirical knowledge to forensic and investigative processes and practice and exploring emerging forensic and investigative challenges.

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