Psychology PhD

Royal Holloway, University of London

The Department of Psychology is a dynamic and varied research community covering the cognitive and neural underpinnings of social interaction, learning, memory, and language, through to more applied research topics in forensic, health, and developmental psychology.Our academic staff work at the forefront of their field, across psychological science and neuroscience, with an active, thriving postgraduate research community.The Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway has been placed joint third in the country by The Times Higher Education following the publication of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 results. In the REF 2021 results overall, 67% of Psychology's research was classified as 4 world leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour, highlighting the exceptional quality of the department’s research outputs, impact and environment.

Psychology