School of Psychology
The School of Psychology offers high quality, research-led teaching through our suite of flexible degree programmes.
We focus on employability, giving students hands-on experience doing the things that psychologists do and providing the opportunities to explore a wide range of future careers.
Our cutting-edge facilities are utilised by researchers and students at all levels, and include fully immersive virtual reality, Electroencephalography, eye trackers, full-body motion-tracking equipment, dedicated behavioural research pods, and fMRI facilities. It's a place where you can test your theories and understand more about the human mind.
Our strengths lie in fields including human cognition and perception, developmental science, social psychology, and cognitive and social neuroscience.
We are a welcoming, diverse community with lecturers and students from all over the world. Through placements, internships, study abroad options and career-building extracurricular programmes, students explore all that psychology has to offer.
Courses
Postgraduate Research in Psychology
We are a top tier, research-led university and are committed to making a substantial impact on the global challenges facing society. Our postgraduate...
Developmental Psychology
Discover how children develop both cognitively and socially, by combining a strong core of psychology studies with developmental perspectives on cognition and...
Developmental Psychology
Discover how children develop both cognitively and socially, by combining a strong core of psychology studies with developmental perspectives on cognition and...
Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience is one of psychology’s most fast-moving and fundamental areas, bringing together aspects of psychology and neuroscience. On our Cognitive...
Social and Applied Psychology
From the proliferation of social media to more traditional human encounters, we all take part in hundreds of social interactions every day. But how do they...
Cognitive Psychology
Study the mental processes that inform human behaviour: attention, language, memory, perception, and many more. On this degree, you’ll master the key theories...
Psychology with a Placement Year
Discover the science of human behaviour and how the human mind works as you learn to critically evaluate the latest psychological theories and develop ideas of...
Research
School of Psychology
Friendly interactions with Chinese people reduced Covid-19 prejudice
People with a history of positive social interactions with Chinese people were less likely to support discriminatory anti-Chinese policies as Covid-19 reached...
UEA opens £3m Wellcome-Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre
UEA has officially opened the doors of its new £3m state-of-the-art neuroimaging research centre, thanks to funding totalling £1.3m from two charitable...
UEA team reads minds to understand human tool use
Researchers at the University of East Anglia have made an astonishing discovery about how our brains control our hands.
Putting virtual rehab for stroke patients to the test
Researchers at the University of East Anglia have been putting virtual reality rehabilitation for stroke survivors to the test.