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The School of Psychology offers MLitt degrees in a wide range of research areas, completed primarily on the basis of a research thesis. Each student will be assigned a primary Supervisor(s) and a Graduate Research Committee made up of experienced researchers to plan their programme of study and to provide on-going support to their research.

Research Areas

• Forensic clinical psychology; suicide and parasuicidal behaviour; psychopathy; actuarial and clinical risk assessment; offending behaviour.
• Health promotion; coronary heart disease; primary care; health behaviour change, communication in health care settings; blood donation.
• Stress-illness relationship; cognitive behavioural interventions with patients with breast cancer; psychoneuroimmunology.
• Psychological time and process psychophysics and their relation to consciousness. Cognitive dysmetria as applied to any disorder, especially schizophrenia.
• illness cognitions and health outcomes; coping and adjustment in chronic illness; self-management interventions for chronically ill patients.
• Child health psychology; children's experiences including their understanding of psychological problems; child-centred research methodology.
• Developmental psychology; cognitive aging; performance psychology; electrophysiological windows into brain functioning; happiness.
• Psychological aspects of stress, in particular psychophysiological and cardiovascular reactivity. Individual differences and psychosocial factors that moderate stress responsivity.
• Laboratory studies in health psychology, including blood pressure regulation, psychophysiological aspects of stress, and addictive processes; behavioural epidemiology.
• Pain and its management; rehabilitation and illness; utilisation of health services.
• Derived stimulus relations in adults and young children; applied behaviour analysis and autism; applications of behavioural principles in the treatment of autism.
• Rehabilitation of acquired brain injury; management of chronic pain; abnormal illness behaviour. symptom magnification and malingering; learning disability and challenging behaviour.