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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Kingston University
Penrhyn Road
Kingston upon Thames
Surrey KT1 2EE

Tel: +44 (0)20 8417 9000

Research in Psychology

Psychology at Kingston was a unit of assessment in RAE2008 for the first time, and over half of the academic staff in the unit were submitted. The panel judged more than 75% of our research to be of an "internationally-recognised" standard or better. The first PhD student in psychology also graduated in 2008. Since then, additional research-active staff have joined us; we have invested further in our research infrastructure; we have recruited more postgraduate students; and the number of research outputs per annum has continued to increase.

Research groups

The Department of Psychology is organised around two main groupings:

  1. Health, Clinical and Social Psychology Group
  2. Development, Learning and Cognition Group

Research in the Department has been supported by funding from various agencies, for example: the Economic and Social Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the Alcohol Education and Research Council, the Medical Research Council, the British Academy, and the Nuffield Foundation.

Photograph of a person using tracking equipment in front of a computer screen Participate in psychology experiments!