Our Department of Psychology is a research-intensive department where students are taught by people at the forefront of their fields in well-equipped facilities.
We offer the following research degree programmes:
PhD in Psychology
- Alongside your PhD research, this includes on-going training opportunities to enhance your research skills and broad knowledge of psychology, as well as academic tools sessions to equip you for careers inside and outside academia.
- First year modules: Research Design and Statistics and Practical skills in experimental, cognitive and social psychology
- You can also attend any relevant final-year undergraduate and MSc courses to enhance your knowledge of a specific area
- Weekly research seminars in the Department of Psychology which includes a ‘meet the speaker' event where you'll get the opportunity to talk informally with high-profile academics and other external speakers
PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
- Alongside your PhD research, this includes training sessions to enhance your research skills and broad knowledge of cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging, as well as academic tools sessions to equip you for careers inside and outside academia
- First year module: Programming in Neuroimaging
- You can also attend any relevant final-year undergraduate and MSc courses to enhance your knowledge of a specific area
- Weekly research seminars at the York Neuroimaging Centre
- Weekly research seminars in the Department of Psychology which includes a ‘meet the speaker' event where you'll get the opportunity to talk informally with high-profile academics and other external speakers
PhD in Psycholinguistics
- Run jointly by the Departments of Language and Linguistic Science, Psychology and Education
- Training opportunities from across the three departments, including psycholinguistic research methods, data science, and a range of advanced discipline-specific modules
- Extensive facilities include eyetracking and pupilometry; EEG and psychophysiology; state-of-the art equipment for individual and group testing, focus group monitoring and behavioural experiments; polysomnography in a three-bedroom sleep lab
- Regular seminars, events and guest speakers
We offer:
- Vibrant community of approx 60 full time and part time research students with regular calendar of social events
- Stimulating, supportive atmosphere
- Research-intensive psychology department
- Over 40 members of academic staff as well as technical and administrative staff to support research and teaching
- Modern purpose-built accommodation
- State-of-the-art research and computer equipment
- Your own desk and computer
- Full access to specialised research facilities
Superb specialised research facilities:
Why us?
- We're ranked 8th in the UK for research and 2nd for research output quality in the Times Higher Education’s ranking of the latest REF results (2021)
- Our research environment - the support we give to our researchers - is rated as 4*, the Research Excellence Framework’s highest rating.
- Ranked 9th in the UK for Psychology in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide (2022)
- PhD completion rate: 98%
Life after PhD:
77% of our PhD students continue in further academic/research careers
I'm interested. What do I do now?
Establish whether there is a member of academic staff with research interests that overlap with you and whether we are carrying out research in an area that interests you.
Once you've identified a potential supervisor, please email them before you apply to discuss your application and proposed area of research.
Complete an application for your chosen degree
Contact us:
psychology-pg-admissions@york.ac.uk
01904 323189
Research degrees at Department of Psychology
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