Research
Division of Psychology, Sociology and Education - our outward-facing, innovative and cross-disciplinary research.
Our research interests in Psychology include:
- Cognitive and Social Development
- Discourse and Identity
- Educational/Developmental Social Psychology
- Experiences of Health and Illness
- Experimental Psychology
- Eye-Witness Testimony
- Individual Differences
- Memory Research
- Narratives of Mental Illness and Well-Being
- Phenomenological Qualitative Research
- Political Psychology
- Psychology of Pain
- Social Identity
Our research interests in Sociology include
- Class & Social Stratification
- Environment & Society
- Gender, Sexuality and Wellbeing
- Gender and Violence
- Public Sociology
- Production and consumption of fashion
- Rural Sociology both EU and Worldwide
- Social Movements and Activism
- Sociology of formal and informal education
- Sociology of Religion
- Sociology of Scotland
Our interests in Education include:
- Social justice and Education
- Creativity and learning
- Children, food and learning
- Wellbeing and the role of learning
