Centre for Psychological Research (CfPR)
Director(s): Dr Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez, Professor Kate Wilmut
About us
The Centre for Psychological Research has a thriving community of research active staff and research scholars. Two themes infuse the research that we do:
- Developing resources to facilitate positive change.
- Advancing understanding of human thought, experience, and behaviour.
Our researchers work across the following groups, with the themes above running throughout all four groups:
- Applied Social and Cultural Psychology
- Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
- Developmental Psychology
- Health Behaviour and Wellbeing
We attract significant finding awards from various sources including industry, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Technology Strategy Board and the Leverhulme Trust. We work with health and education professionals as well as partners in industry to develop knowledge and understanding that informs policy and improves people’s lives.
Research impact
We work with health and education professionals as well as partners in industry to develop knowledge and understanding that informs policy and improves people’s lives.
The quality and impact of our research has been reflected in the UK government’s latest Research Excellence Framework, where the majority of our research was judged to be world leading or of international standing.
The Brookes Science Bazaar, one of the Science Festival’s flagship events, attracts over 700 visitors in a single day and is hugely popular with children (and adults) of all ages. Psychology staff introduce visitors to the discipline through interactive sessions to demonstrate such things as reaction times and visual illusions.