The School offers supervision for full-time or part-time research degrees at MSc and PhD level in any of the following areas. Applicants should send an outline of the research they propose to pursue with their application form.

• Cognitive psychology/neuropsychology: visual cognition; memory; clinical neuropsychology; language; human-computer interaction.
• Developmental psychology: cultural ideas regarding development; children's conversational skills; discourse and conversation analysis; recognition memory processes in children; development of prejudice and stereotyping; children's social identity; children with learning disabilities.
• Forensic psychology: police procedures; legal decision making; eye-witness testimony
• Group processes and intergroup relations: social identity and self-categorisation; small group performance; group decisions; intergroup relations; stereotyping; prejudice; discrimination; inequality; collective behaviour.
• Social psychology: group processes; intergroup relations; prejudice; attributional style; attitude change and persuasion; personality and individual differences.

Research degrees are based on a research project and do not involve coursework; however, research students who have not already passed a suitable advanced statistics course may be required to take our Advanced Statistics and Methodology module in their first year.

For informal enquiries please phone +44 (0)1227 824775 or Email psypgadmissions@kent.ac.uk.

For the University's general information on research degrees, see www.kent.ac.uk/studying/postgrad/types/research.html.