Psychology PhD

University of Brighton

Psychology is an established and vibrant research discipline at the University of Brighton. We welcome approaches for doctoral research into or through psychology and its methods as well as cross-disciplinary investigations drawing on aspects of psychology. Our research is at the forefront of developments in applied psychology, critical psychology, community psychology, social psychology, health psychology, sports psychology and emerging fields such as cyberpsychology and ecopsychology. University of Brighton researchers in psychology have addressed a wide range of topics such as mental health and wellbeing, animal-human interactions, friendship, identity, poverty and social exclusion, forensic psychology, health and wellbeing, leisure and exercise, security and surveillance, crowd control and public order, gender, sexuality, intimacy, migration, elite sport performance, nature-based interventions and climate change.

University of Brighton