School of Psychology
Psychology is a vibrant and friendly School in which teaching and research are carried out to a very high standard. The School is housed in the Scrymgeour Building, an attractive traditional sandstone structure. This accommodation was extended a few years ago by the construction of a purpose built four storey annexe which contains a substantial teaching laboratory as well as dedicated research laboratories.
The School currently has an academic staff of sixteen, including three professors. The inclusion of dedicated administrative and secretarial, technical and research staff as well as PhD and MSc students brings the psychology community at Dundee to around 60 people. The number of undergraduates taking courses at various levels is close to 600, with approximately 250 in the first year, 150 in the second, 100 in the third and about 80 in Senior Honours.
...an entirely rewarding and exciting experience..where cutting edge research created a genuine buzz.
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Our research can be characterised as human experimental psychology and we have one of the strongest groups of researchers interested in vision, language and eye movements in the world.
Researchers in the School form three groups; Language, perception and cognition, Neuroscience and development and Social identity. We have active research collaborations with the University’s Medical School (which is based at Ninewells hospital in Dundee and is one of the UK’s largest teaching hospitals), as well as with departments in neighbouring universities, particularly St Andrews, Edinburgh and Glasgow but also those further afield in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world.