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Research in Psychology & Mental Health
Psychology and Mental Health Research
Our principal research objectives are:
to stimulate the highest levels of research achievement of individuals and research teams
to contribute to quality of life through the pursuit and effective exploitation of socially relevant research; and
to add to the pool of highly trained researchers by developing the research skills of both students and staff
Within the Department much of the research activity is centred round six groupings: history of psychology; critical psychology; developmental psychology, applied psychology, health psychology and cognitive psychology. Some of the research in both health and cognitive psychology utilises psychophysiological measurement and the University has invested in this area of research by developing well equipped specialist laboratories for psychophysiological, neuropsychological and endocrinology research. Two of the research groupings in psychology have been formally recognised by the University as research centres, the Centre for Health Psychology and the Centre for Educational Psychology Research. Within each centre/grouping the concentration of academics, researchers and postgraduates provides a focused research atmosphere. There are PhD students undertaking research in all six areas of research activity. The postgraduate associations of the Faculty of Sciences and of the Graduate School provide the opportunity for research students to network and be stimulated by those working in similar and less similar areas. Psychology research students receive research training through the NW Consortium for the Training of Postgraduate Students in Psychology (a consortium of eight universities) as well as benefiting from the extensive training available within Psychology, the Faculty of Sciences and the Graduate School.
