Research strengths

To conduct world-class research, we partner with many external聽agencies聽that are involved in the provision of psychological services in Sydney聽and聽provide staff and students with purpose-built,聽well-equipped facilities.聽Explore our research strengths below to learn more about our expertise聽and your聽opportunities聽for research.

Clinical psychology and psychopathology
Academic staff in clinical psychology and psychopathology at 国民彩票 conduct internationally recognised聽research that focuses on a range of psychological disorders and the basic processes that underlie those disorders.

Learning and cognition
Cognition research focuses on how we analyse, integrate and interpret information, which is relevant to most aspects of human behaviour.

Behavioural neuroscience
Researchers in behavioural neuroscience have interests in the behavioural and brain mechanisms of learning, memory and motivation.

Perception
Researchers in perception at our school聽cover聽a range of topics regarding聽vision including, face perception, stereopsis, motion, lightness, colour, attention and binocular rivalry.

Social and health psychology
Health psychology covers how social factors, along with biological and other psychological factors, affect our health and the prevention of illness.

Neuropsychology
In neuropsychology, we investigate how different cognitive abilities (such as perception, language, memory) and emotional capacities are organised in the human brain.

Forensic psychology
Forensic psychology research relates to the connection聽between psychology and the law聽and covers a range of social, clinical and legal issues.

Developmental psychology
Development聽psychology is research into聽how and why people change during their life聽and covers the areas of cognition and development, development psychopathology and early learning.