We are a vibrant, inclusive, rapidly growing research community. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework assessment, 100% of our research environment and research impact was rated as either world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*), along with 73% of our research outputs. The proportion of our research impact rated as 4* or 3* was equal to or higher than institutions such as Nottingham, Aberdeen, Bath, UCL, Cambridge, and York. Overall, we were ranked above Durham and Bath on 4* and 3* research and were the top-rated department in a modern university. 

We have three research groups:

• The Experimental Psychology group works on basic psychological research, aiming to understand thought from low-level associative and cognitive processes, through language, to social interactions, and from birth to adulthood. We work on topics ranging from learning and memory, spatial navigation, and action perception, to multimodal person perception, and human-robot interactions.
• The Applied Psychology group works on the application of psychology to real-world issues, and has made significant impacts on policy in the areas of anaesthesia, person-centred healthcare, medical alarms, and environmental behaviours. It also conducts excellent applied-psychology research on online gambling, eHealth, multiple sclerosis, respiratory disease, autism, and student mental health
• The Neuroscience group combines different neuroscientific techniques (including MRI, EEG, TMS and TUS) to provide converging evidence on questions of brain function. They work on topics ranging from ultrasound neuromodulation to the neuroscience of reasoning, perception, adaptive learning, imagery, and deception.