Psychology

Areas for PhD supervision

Behavioural Science

Economic and Consumer Psychology; Judgement, Risk and Decision-Making; Psychology and the Law; Computational Modelling of Human Behaviour; Attention, Visual Processing and Emotional Processing.

Language and Learning

Reading; Word Recognition; Semantic Representation of Words; Language Development in Children; Second Language Learning; Computational Approaches to Language Processing, Learning and Change; Gesture and Non-verbal Communication in Adults and Children; Development of Social Cognition; Animal (Comparative) Communication and Cognition; Language Evolution.

Lifespan Health and Wellbeing

Longitudinal Epidemiology and Experimental Psychology, with common interests in the factors that determine and/or the mechanisms that underlie healthy living, development and ageing; sleep and pain; disaster recovery; culture, relationships, beliefs, personality, and well-being.