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Applied, Social and Health Psychology – (Ph.D.)
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus
Faculty of Science & Technology| Application Deadline: | January 15 | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,200 - ≈ € 12,070 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Cambridge / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 36 months | Start Date: | January, September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus
The Applied, Social and Health Psychology research group contains leading researchers in several areas of applied psychology, including health, emotion, developmental disorders, psychoneuroimmunology, consumer psychology, sexual health, and social psychology. Some of our research in these areas was recently rated as world-leading by the Research Assessment Exercise 2008, and we have published widely in high impact journals such as Psychological Review, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Emotion, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Consciousness & Cognition.
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There are currently 7 senior researchers in the Applied, Social and Health Psychology group, all of whom have supervisory experience. Full-time, dedicated technical and computing support is also available to our research students.
Facilities
Psychological research encompasses a very wide range of techniques and this is reflected in our commitment to developing an extensive range of research tools and facilities. We have, on-site, Electroencephalograph (EEG) and eyetracking facilities, a Psychoneuroimmunology lab for salivary analysis and a suite of experimental laboratories for data acquisition and analysis.
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Candidates seeking admission to the degree of MPhil or MPhil with possibility of transfer to PhD will normally be required to hold a first or upper second class honours degree of a university, or any other institution of higher education in the UK with degree-awarding powers or a qualification which is regarded by Anglia Ruskin as equivalent to a first or upper second class honours degree.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Master's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 600 |
| TOEFL Computer-based: | 250 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 100 |
Faculty
Staff Research
- Dr Matt Bristow (Senior Lecturer) - psycho-neuro-immunology. The relationship between psychosocial facors, mucosal immunity and health; the temporal relationship between acute stress and secretory immunoglobulin A secretion; the validity of sIgA as an immune measure for use in psychoimmunology. Advancing methodology in the psychophysiology of stress: capturing the complexity of immunity.
- Dr. Rachel Cook (Principal Lecturer) - psychological implications of reproduction, infertility and medical technologies; stress and health.
- Dr Roberto Gutierrez (Lecturer) - emotions: their individual characteristics such as automaticity and elicitation, and the way they affect our judgment and behaviour. Group processes: specifically, social identity and intergroup relations.
- Dr. Cathrine Jansson-Boyd (Senior Lecturer) - tactile influences on consumer evaluation and decision making. Aesthetic concepts and their applicability to consumer evaluations of products and consumer environments. Interrelationship between happiness, consumption and self-esteem.
- Dr John Lambie (Reader) - consciousness and emotional experience; the role of emotional awareness in rational action; the role of self-awareness in mental health and moral action; the development of emotional awareness.
- Dr Amanda Ludlow (Senior Lecturer) - children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Deafness (profound and severe) looking at impact of language difficulties on cognitive performance (reading and colour processing); sources of stress in families of children with disabilities and its links to sensory processing abnormalities; coloured overlays and coloured glasses as a therapeutic intervention in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
- Dr Poul Rohleder (Senior Lecturer) - psychosocial and public health aspects of HIV/AIDS and sexual health; disease, ill-health and stigma; marginalised identities; critical health psychology; mental health; qualitative research.
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