Options list

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

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

6. Michael Verde – Memory and false memory

7. Gray Atherton – Neurodevelopmental conditions: Theories and practice

8. Sophie Homer – Foundations of clinical psychology

PSYC602 Block A

1. Chris Berry – Memory, amnesia, and awareness

2. Giorgio Ganis – Cognitive and brain basis of deception

3. Gustav Kuhn – The misdirected mind

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

PSYC602 Block B

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

6. Phil Gee and Joanna Newbolt – Animal behaviour

7. 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 – How to fall in love with the future

PSYC603 Block B

6. Alison Bacon – Criminals in the making

7. Chris Mitchell – Counselling and psychotherapy

8. 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

5. Kayleigh Wyles – Psychology and the natural world

6. Jaysan Charlesford – Reducing prejudice

7. Katharine Rimes – Transdiagnostic processes in mental health problems