Taught programmes

• Cognitive Psychology / Neuropsychology - MSc
• Developmental Psychology - MSc
• Forensic Psychology - MSc
• Group Processes and Intergroup Relations - MSc
• Research Methods in Psychology - MSc
• Social and Applied Psychology - MSc

Research programmes

• Cognitive Psychology / Neuropsychology - PhD
• Forensic Psychology - NRPhD, PhD
• Psychology - MSc, NRPhD, PhD
• Social Psychology - MSc, NRPhD, PhD

Psychology at Kent offers a supportive, dynamic and diverse environment for creative research and learning. We conduct both basic and applied research in several areas, and we are highly regarded as a leading European centre for postgraduate research. We have a long-established international reputation in social psychology, and this is complemented by our strengths in cognitive, developmental and forensic psychology. The School attracts excellent visiting scholars and postgraduate students from both within the UK and overseas. Some of our PhD students are self-funded, and others are funded by grants or awards either from the School, UK or their countries of origin. Some are also paid for doing part-time teaching within the School.

Our taught Master's (MSc) programmes have been recognised by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as meeting the nationally recognised criteria for preparation training for PhD research. The MSc in Forensic Psychology at Kent is also accredited by The British Psychological Society as providing the first (academic) year of professional training for those who pass the course and wish to qualify as Chartered Forensic Psychologists. The School has a strong track record of attracting ESRC research studentship funding which involve partnerships with external organisations, such as Age Concern England and the Equality and Human Rights Commission and collaborative studentships with partners such as People United.

The School has excellent facilities for both laboratory and field research, including advanced laboratory and teaching facilities. Resources include:

• three fully equipped colour video laboratories for face-to-face group research, together with ten satellite laboratories connected via remote-control CCTV and two-way audio links
• 58 research laboratories, all containing networked computers
• a further 80 PCs available exclusively to Psychology students, including a designated MSc computer-networked room providing full email and internet access
• shared offices and a personal, networked computer for research students
• a full range of computer-based experiment generators and productivity software installed on all the School's systems.

We have invested heavily in improving our research facilities. These include:

• an upgraded laboratory suite with equipment for digital sound and vision recording
• a suite equipped with two EEG/ERP (event-related brain potential) systems, a sophisticated means of measuring brain activity while participants perform cognitive tasks; five eye-tracking systems; and fully sound-proofed cubicles equipped for language-based research
• a suite equipped with Bio-Pac recorders to allow for a range of physiological measures to be taken during stressful and other tasks
• specialist laboratories equipped for face processing and vision research
• a virtual reality laboratory
• a social cognition laboratory
• creation in 2010 of the Kent Child Development Unit and research team focusing on how children learn about their world, about other people and about the language they hear around them.

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Carly Turnham,
School of Psychology, Keynes College,
University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NP, UK
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