• The Psychology Department was the first Psychology Department to be awarded an 'Excellent' rating by the Higher Education Funding Council for the quality of its teaching environment.
• Our students benefit from instruction by internationally recognised researchers, excellent teaching facilities, and a friendly campus community. The University buildings, and many halls of residence, are conveniently located in a single, friendly campus.
• An increasing percentage of our students now come from overseas, indicating Swansea’s growing academic reputation.

We are a rapidly growing, research-led department. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, 35% of our research was judged to be world leading (4*) or Internationally excellent (3*), and 45% was Internationally recognised (2*). We currently have 24 full-time members of academic staff. Through continuous investment in research infrastructure and by expanding staffing levels, we plan to further support our research achievement.

Research at Swansea

Our research covers three broad areas:

• Brain and Behaviour
• Cognition and Perception
• Clinical and Health Psychology

We also have specific groups for Learning and Behaviour, and Evolutionary Behavioural Science, and we are part of the University’s cross-College Language Research Centre. We are also part of the Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (WICN), a research initiative to enhance collaborations in neuro-imaging. The other constituent members of WICN are Cardiff and Bangor Universities.

Study at Swansea

We offer an undergraduate course in Psychology (B.Sc., accredited by the British Psychological Society), and postgraduate courses in Research Methods in Psychology (M.Sc.) and Clinical and Abnormal Psychology (M.Sc.). We have a large number of postgraduate research students, if you are considering doing a PhD with us please contact any member of staff to discuss research possibilities.