Psychology
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Goldsmiths accepts Ciência sem Fronteiras students onto the following courses:
Undergraduate
Please note for Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience – only specific courses are available to Ciência sem Fronteiras students. These are likely to be 3rd year classes listed on our Study Abroad pages. All classes are subject to availablility
We will expect you to have completed at least 5 or 6 semesters at your Brazilian university and have successfully followed relevant courses in either clinical psychology or cognitive neuroscience.
Research themes
Why Psychology at Goldsmiths?
Our Department of Psychology is a thriving centre of excellence in research and teaching with around 450 undergraduates, 130 postgraduates (including PhD and MSc students across 6 postgraduate programmes) and 35 academic staff.
We combine mainstream academic and applied psychology with particular research strengths in:
- Brain & Cognition
- Individual Differences, Social Processes & Psychopathology
- Typical & Atypical Development
- Applied Psychology
We welcome applications for full PhD studentships as well as one-year PhD sandwich placements through Ciência sem Fronteiras programme.
What you will study, and your 3-month research project
Between September and June, all undergraduate students will follow a selection of our wide range of option courses and between June and September undertake a major project.
You will be expected to undertake classes from3rd year classes listed on our Study Abroad pages and we will have expected you to have already completed 5 or 6 semesters of study in a relevant subject prior to your arrival at Goldsmiths.
Between June and September you will spend 3 months working on a bespoke supervised lab-based or research project associated with one of our research teams. You will work under the guidance of our researchers on a project that contributes to our research effort. This will either be part of our cutting edge research or a collaborative project with one of our partners in industry. You will work from June to September and at the end you will give a presentation to your peers and your research team, submit a summary report to them and you may be involved in submitting the work for publication or delivery to an industry partner.
Research groups include:
The Brain and Cognition cluster carries out research in visual and spatial attention, working memory, integration across sensory modalities, reinforcement learning, problem-solving, eye-witness identification, musical cognition, and cross-cultural psychology. Research in this cluster involves behavioural, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging methods including electro-encephalography (EEG), trans-cranial magnetic brain stimulation (TMS) and transcranial electrical brain stimulation (tDCS/tACS) as well as neurofeedback research, eye-tracking, computational modelling, motion capture technology, electromyography (EMG), and galvanic skin response (GSR).
The Individual Differences, Social Processes and Psychopathology cluster is one of the largest groups in the UK researching into personality, intelligence and clinical conditions such as depression and anxiety, as well as social processes. A recent emphasis has been on behavioural genetics and gene-behaviour association studies, as well as prejudice and discrimination.
The Typical and Atypical Development cluster carries out cutting edge studies on typical development and atypical development, including conditions such as autism spectrum disorder, emotional behaviour disorders and developmental coordination disorder. The group's research focuses on a wide range of topics, including executive functions, savant skills, music perception and cognition, colour perception and categorisation, social learning and autobiographical memory, the development of multisensory integration and processes involved in ageing.
