Options list

This is a list of the options offered in each block in the 2025/26 academic year.

This is a work in progress (updated 09/07/2025) so there is one title tbc and there may still be changes to the running order as we confirm the timetable.

Descriptions of each topic can be found via the menu.

PSYC601 Block A

  1. Sean Fallon – Beyond reward: Dopamine and its role in shaping human life

  2. Chris Longmore – The Human Factor: How do people cause plane crashes and other accidents?

  3. Liam Cross – Social cognition in action

  4. Charles Or – Perception of faces

  5. Farid Pazhoohi – Attractiveness: What, why, and how?

PSYC601 Block B

  1. Michael Verde – Memory and false memory

  2. Gray Atherton – Neurodevelopmental conditions: Theories and practice

  3. Sophie Homer – Foundations of clinical psychology

PSYC602 Block A

  1. Chris Berry – Memory, amnesia, and awareness

  2. Phil Gee and Joanna Newbolt – Animal behaviour

  3. Gustav Kuhn – The misdirected mind

  4. Caroline Floccia – How do children learn to talk?

PSYC602 Block B

  1. Deanna Gallichan – Clinical psychology for people with learning disabilities

  2. Giorgio Ganis – Cognitive and brain basis of deception

  3. Jon Rhodes – Sports psychology

PSYC603 Block A

  1. Julie Ji – Harnessing the human imagination

  2. Matt Hudson – Social cognitive neuroscience: From evolution to public health

  3. Mila Mileva – First impressions

  4. Stephen Hall – Drugs, the brain and behaviour

  5. Jackie Andrade – tbc

PSYC603 Block B

  1. Alison Bacon – Criminals in the making

  2. Chris Mitchell – Counselling and psychotherapy

  3. Alastair Smith – The Psychology of Drawing

PSYC604 Block A

  1. Denis Tatone – Sociologists in the crib: How infants and children represent social relations, structures, and groups

  2. Clare Walsh – Mind-wandering and imagination

  3. Andrea Pisauro – Psychology of AI and mental health in human-robot interaction

  4. Patricia Kanngiesser – Social norms

PSYC604 Block B

  1. Kayleigh Wyles – Psychology and the natural world

  2. Jaysan Charlesford – Reducing prejudice

  3. Katharine Rimes – Transdiagnostic processes in mental health problems