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
Psychology with a Year Abroad
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...
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...
Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Psychology is the study of the mental processes that inform human behaviour, such as attention, language, memory, perception. On this degree you will...
Developmental Psychology
Discover how children develop both cognitively and socially. On this programme you’ll combine a strong core of psychology studies with developmental perspectives...
Developmental Psychology
Discover how children develop both cognitively and socially. On this programme you’ll combine a strong core of psychology studies with developmental perspectives...
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...
Research
School of Psychology
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.
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...
How hope can make you happier with your lot
Having hope for the future could protect people from risky behaviours such as drinking and gambling – according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
20 years of pioneering climate research
From adapting to heatwaves, to decarbonisation and coastal sea-level rises, the work of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research assesses and explores...
Dragon Hall Debate: Adolescence
- Mar 23, 2021 19:00PM
- Online
- Seminar
- Free
Online discussion chaired by Prof Laura Biggart, with Dr Harry Dyer (EDU), Dr David Bainbridge (Cambridge) and local youth activist Taryn Everdeen hosted by UEA with National Centre for Writing
London Lecture: How children learn words
- Apr 29, 2021 18:30PM
- Online
- Free
In this lecture Prof Larissa Samuelson will discuss the difficulties children face when learning even a single concrete noun, and the work being done in UEA's Developmental Dynamics Laboratory to understand individual children's unique word learning pathways.