Our wide-ranging and extremely influential research ranges from basic and applied psychological research in clinical and health psychology to the study of sensation, perception, cognition and motor behaviour. Take a look at what we’ve been researching recently within each of our research groups.
Language, Memory and Attention Group
The Language, Memory, and Attention Research Group focuses on cognition with a strong focus on language, as well as memory and attention. Across the group, members investigate cognitive performance from its early development in infancy and up to adulthood. The group pursues both fundamental questions such as why and how language evolved and why different languages differ from each other, and applied questions with consequences for policy such as how to teach children to read or how to make airplanes safer.
The LMA group is convened by Dr Kyle Jasmin.
Please see here for a list of current members and labs.
Social and Affective Processes Group
The Social and Affective Processes (SAP) Research Group focuses on social cognition with a focus on perception, inference, belief, and coalitional processes. Across the group, members test and develop explanations for social cognition across the lifespan, in psychiatric and neurological disorder, and in synthetic systems such as Large Language Models. Neuroimaging, computational, behavioural, and experimental methods are used to test core theories, and work is frequently applied to clinical treatment development pipelines and government policy.
The SAP group is convened by Dr Joe Barnby.
See here for more detail and for the list of scholars in the group
Health and Well-being Group
Research in the Health and Well-Being Group conducts basic and applied psychological research in clinical and health psychology. Members conduct research with many clinical groups, including those with depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, psychosis, autism, multiple sclerosis, chronic pain and HIV, as well as non-clinical samples. Research covers a wide range of topics, such as psychological treatments, wellbeing, cognitive abilities, social and emotional processes, and discrimination.
The HWB group is convened by Dr Alice Gregory.
Please see here for a list of current members and labs.
Perception, Action and Decision Making Group
The Perception, Action, and Decision-Making Group (PAD) undertakes cutting-edge research into how the human brain supports cognition, perception and action, and how these key abilities may be affected in neurological and psychiatric disorders. Using tools from neuroscience and experimental psychology, we explore a range of fundamental and applied questions, such as how zero gravity impacts cognition, how the brain constructs representations of places and events, and the interplay between decision-making and depression.
The PAD group is convened by Dr Rob Mok.
Please see here for a list of current members and labs.
CUBIC
CUBIC is a Magnetic Resonance Imaging facility for the investigation of sensory and cognitive brain function, located at Royal Holloway, University of London. It operates a research-dedicated 3T MRI scanner and is owned and run jointly by Royal Holloway University of London, Brunel University, Roehampton University and University of Surrey. To learn more about CUBIC click here.
South East Research Network for Schools
Our aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners to maximise the impact of research on practice within schools and improve outcomes for children and young people. To learn more about SERNS, current projects and events click here.
THESIS
THESIS (Teaching in Higher Education: Supporting and Inspiring Students) is a psychology education and pedagogical research group at Royal Holloway, University of London. THESIS aims to encourage innovation in teaching practice, strive towards excellence in teaching, and support students and educational practice. Members carry out pedagogical research
To learn more about THESIS, click here.
