Centre for Psychological Research
The Centre for Psychological Research aims to improve people’s health, wellbeing, performance and achievement, by conducting internationally recognised research on the psychological processes that influence those outcomes.
The research centre includes research clusters focusing specifically on cognitive psychology, psychology of health and wellbeing, psychology of human performance, psychology of mental health, pedagogic psychology, psychology of paranormal phenomena and social psychology.
Research expertise
- Systematic literature reviews
- Cognitive processes
- Qualitative research
- Health behaviours
- Ergonomics and occupational psychology
- Evaluations
- Psychometrics
- Child development
- Mental health
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The Centre for Psychological Research
Education, Health and Sciences
Director: Professor James Elander
Professor James Elander is a health psychologist whose main area of research concerns how people with chronic painful conditions, like haemophilia and sickle cell disease, cope with pain, communicate about pain, and use painkillers to control pain. He also does research on students’ academic writing, which focuses on improving students’ ‘authorial identity’, and helping students new to Higher Education make a successful transition to university academic writing.
