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 24/04/2025) so there are some titles 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 - How do people cause planes to crash and ferries to sink? The role of human factors in everyday life

  3. Liam Cross – Social cognition in action

  4. Charles Or - Face processing

  5. Katharine Rimes - tbc

PSYC601 Block B

  1. Michael Verde - Memory and false memory

  2. Gray Atherton - Neurodevelopmental conditions: Theories and practice

  3. Alison Bacon - The criminal mind

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 - The psychology 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. Pete Keohane and Ben Green - tbc

PSYC603 Block B

  1. Sophie Homer – Foundations of clinical psychology

  2. Chris Mitchell – Counselling and psychotherapy

  3. Alastair Smith - The Psychology of Drawing

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. 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. Nicholas Troop – Body image