Psychology Higher Degrees

Psychology Higher Degrees

The School of Psychology currently has 23 academic staff members, 4 teaching assistants, 10 research staff and 20 postgraduate research students.  The School is actively fostering research and putting into action plans which will lead to a strong submission to the Psychology RAE Panel in 2006, and to full utilisation of the research income arising from RAE funds and external grants and contracts.

Research in the School of Psychology is concentrated into 4 sub-areas.  These are:

Human factors and applied cognitive psychology
Sleep and performance
Occupational selection and development
Organisational development
Safety and accident prevention
Driver behaviour
Internet and multimedia
Mental effort
Selective visual attention
Work and stress
Risk and decision-making
Job and work design

Current funding
EPSRC
Merseyside Health Action Zone
SPARKS
Volvo Technological
Liverpool City Council

Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology
Working memory and language development
Teaching and learning strategies
Cognitive ageing
Reasoning and decision-making
Cognitive neuroscience
Bullying in schools
Parenting skills
Writing skills and development

Current funding
MRC
Teaching and Learning Fund
Trafford Borough Council
Youth Justice Trust
British Academy

Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology Research Unit (CTPRU)
Psychology of the self
Transpersonal psychology
Jungian psychology
Parapsychology
Psychology of consciousness
Psychology and religion
Psychology and health
Pain

Counselling and substance abuse
Psychology and counselling
Work-based counselling
Working memory deficits associated with substance abuse
Risk perception and communication
Health-related beliefs and behaviours

Current funding
EU, Scottish Office

Please contact Dr Anne Marie Adams for further details about studying for a higher degree in Psychology.