Options list

This is a list of the options offered in each block in the 2024/25 academic year.

Descriptions of each topic can be found via the menu.

PSYC601 Block A

  1. Nerissa Ho – Feeling the world: From emotions to thoughts and behaviours

  2. Zahra Hussain – Deeper insight into human judgements: Sensitivity versus bias

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

  4. Jon May – Craving and addiction

  5. Liam Cross – Social cognition in action

PSYC601 Block B

  1. Michael Verde - Memory and false memory

  2. Gray Atherton - Neurodevelopmental conditions: Theories and practice

  3. Phil Gee and Joanna Newbolt - Animal behaviour

PSYC602 Block A

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

  2. Gustav Kuhn – The misdirected mind

  3. Chris Berry – Memory, amnesia, and awareness

  4. Julien Besle – Cognitive neuroscience of hearing

  5. Farid Pazhoohi - Attractiveness: Why, what and how?

PSYC602 Block B

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

  2. Jon Rhodes – Sports psychology

  3. Karol Nedza – Psychology of motivation and behaviour change

PSYC603 Block A

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

  2. Stephen Hall - Drugs, the brain and behaviour

  3. Mark Tarrant – Group membership, social identity and health: Is there such a thing as a “social cure”?

  4. Julie Ji – Harnessing the human imagination

  5. Mila Mileva – First impressions

PSYC603 Block B

  1. Denis Tatone – Sociologists in the crib: How infants represent social relations

  2. Nicholas Troop – Body image

  3. Sophie Homer – Foundations of clinical psychology

PSYC604 Block A

  1. Raff Calitri – Group-based rehabilitation and interventions: A practical focus on their design and evaluation

  2. Clare Walsh – Mind-wandering and imagination

  3. Patricia Kanngiesser – Social norms

  4. Jan Woike – How to make good decisions

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

PSYC604 Block B

  1. Jaysan Charlesford – Reducing prejudice

  2. Kayleigh Wyles – Psychology and the natural world

  3. Chris Mitchell – Counselling and psychotherapy