Research Units and Facilities

Supported and maintained by our team of technicians, our facilities are used by academics and students from undergraduate to PhD for both teaching and research. Our highly qualified and skilled technicians have varied skills with backgrounds in psychology, computer science, life science, graphic design, systems engineering and IT.

The team have a breadth and depth of knowledge which allows them to deliver expert, high quality services. The technicians are well integrated into research and the education programmes and are always on hand to help students access equipment and testing facilities.

The bulk of our facilities are housed in our Centre for Brain Science at our department on Colchester Campus. Additional specialised psychology labs can be found in the department building, and we also support the gathering and analysis of qualitative data through software and platforms such as Qualtrics.

Our research mission “Understanding our place in the world” is supported by research activity grouped into three broad themes: thinking about the world, interacting with the world, and experiencing the world. The Department is committed to combining staff expertise from different areas of psychology to foster high-quality multi-method research that allows us to ask penetrative questions and address issues directly impacting society through the combination of these different lenses.

Following this approach, the EEPRU has been created to study how our understanding, experience and interactions influence illness management; our Centre for Brain Science allows us to bring together staff and students’ speciality expertise and state-of-the-art brain imaging methods with research projects benefiting from a multi-method and multi-disciplinary approach. Research conducted at the Babylab focuses on infant development. The team is dedicated to sharing neuroscience evidence with the public to support new parents.