School of Design, Engineering & Computing

Collaborations

We have expertise in a number of areas and welcome the opportunity to collaborate with industry, charities and other agencies in research or to provide support via consultancy.

Examples of our expertise are given below. Further information is also available on our ‘Current Research’ page.

If you would be interested in forming a collaboration then please contact us.

Occupational psychology

We are able to help companies if they wish to deal with a variety of issues in the workplace including, for example, stress at work and improving the fit between skills and jobs.

Wayfinding, cognition & attention

A small team from Psychology has considerable expertise in enhancing

wayfinding in complex environments
visual cues for complex decision making
directing attention to reach goals.

Environment & sustainability

The impact of the way that we live is increasingly being felt by our environment. Researchers in Psychology are currently working with industry and care agencies to help to examine the following:

creating ‘green’ behaviour in today's society
creating restorative environments to aid wellbeing

Educational & lifespan development

We are able to provide bespoke short courses to help with CPD, to collaborate to with education authorities to evaluate the efficacy of teaching interventions. Our areas of expertise are:

reading & dyslexia
autism and language
brain training in older adults
widening participation

Clinical psychology

This academic year saw the commencement of our MSc in Foundations of Clinical Psychology. We have particular expertise in post traumatic stress disorder; emotional processing of life events and Alzheimer's disease.