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.

 

Research

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How social recovery therapy is changing treatment for psychosis

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Motivating water-saving behaviour

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Deictic Communication (DCOMM)

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People

School of Psychology

 
A dad helping his young daughter read a map.
09 Mar 2023

Can children map read at the age of four?

Children start to develop the basic skills that underlie map reading from the age of four – according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

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18 May 2021

The big screen is back, and it’s officially more exciting

Researchers at the University of East Anglia have teamed up with comedian Keith Lemon to show how watching movies on the big screen is officially more exciting...

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24 Aug 2022

How the sounds we hear help us predict how things feel

Researchers at the University of East Anglia have made an important discovery about the way our brains process the sensations of sound and touch.

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05 Dec 2022

UEA’s contribution to Clinical Associate in Psychology training shortlisted for national award

UEA, alongside the University of Plymouth and partners, has been shortlisted for two awards at the 2023 Health Service Journal (HSJ) Partnership Awards.

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