The School employs 35 academic staff and over 50 researchers, supported by an annual income of more than £1 million from research councils, the EU, government, charities and private companies. Our research strengths lie in four main areas:
- Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, including vision, perception and action, skill acquisition, visual and auditory communication, and recovery after brain injury;
- Cognitive Development and Learning, including theory of mind, learning and language;
- Risk Analysis, Social Processes and Health, including research on emotions, violence, public perceptions of new biotechnology, and judgmental forecasting;
- and in Behavioural Neuroscience, including behavioural, psychopharmacological, neuroanatomical and genetic approaches to learning and its underlying biology.
Currently, more than 30 full-time postgraduates use the excellent lab facilities and equipment for research projects, supported by well-staffed mechanical and electrical workshops. These include a wide selection of dedicated experimental labs; laboratories for work in physiological, psychophysical and computational investigation, structural and functional brain imaging, EEG, and transcranial magnetic stimulation; a library of test materials and a wide range of monitoring equipment including video apparatus and eye-tracking equipment.
Our website gives details of the staff and their research interests and they welcome informal contact by email to identify a research topic and potential supervisor. In 2005 the School was able to offer ten full-cost Research Council and University-funded awards. Potential research students will be invited for interview, and these are usually held in the spring term. For international applicants it is possible to conduct telephone interviews.