Research areas
View the wide range of research areas in the School of Psychology.
Brain and Behaviour
This research covers overlapping areas of basic cognitive and behavioural processes as well as the neuroanatomical and neurochemcial processes underlying them.
Clinical Psychology
Clinical Psychology involves the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders.
Cognitive Psychology
Cognition refers to all processes by which sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered and used.
Cross-cultural Psychology
Cross-cultural psychology is the study of the impact of culture on individual- and group-level psychological functioning.
Developmental Psychology
The Developmental Psychology Group studies social and cognitive development across the lifespan.
Forensic Psychology
Find out about the Forensic Psychology research group, which looks at the prevention, assessment, and treatment of offending behaviour.
Social Psychology
The study of the effects of social and cognitive processes on the way individuals perceive, influence, understand and relate to others.
Conducting research
The School takes the responsibility of protecting the privacy, safety, health, cultural sensitivities and welfare of research participants seriously. Under the guidance of the University Human Ethics Committee, the School acts to ensure the protection of the interests of research participants and that of the researcher. All research conducted within the School that is of a sensitive nature or that may affect people's privacy, rights and freedoms are reviewed by the School of Psychology Ethics Committee.
The School provides a Māori Research Adviser to provide guidance, advice and support to all staff and postgraduate researchers on:
- cultural and ethical considerations when researching with Māori participants
- developing a Māori focus for research
- useful resources and contacts
- appropriate research methodology
- Māori consultation