Research strategy

The School of Psychology aims to develop and maintain research of international quality, funded by both Research Councils and charities, to enable it to play its part in the University’s research mission. Research collaboration, both within and outside the School, is encouraged and, in harmony with the University’s overarching research strategy, a significant proportion of this research is interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary in character. 

There are regular research seminars organised in the School:

• Internal seminars, given by staff and students from the School, 

• External seminars given by visiting speakers from other research establishments.

• If you would like to participate in research in the School you can join our Participants Panel

Research groups

Research interests of staff in the School is themed within five main research groups:

• Behavioural neuroscience

• Forensic psychology

• Judgment, decision making and social processes

• Memory, attention and spatial cognition

• Vision and language

Director of research: Dr Andrew Young, amjy1@leicester.ac.uk