University of Sheffield - Psychology Department
- Locations
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Department of Psychology, The University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield, SHF 10 2TN
United Kingdom - Ads
- Phone:
- +44 114 222 2000
- Fax:
- +44 114 276 6515
- Contact:
- Email contact form
- Website:
- http://www.shef.ac.uk/psychology/index.html

he Department of Psychology enjoys an excellent reputation for both teaching and research. Research and teaching facilities include small laboratory rooms for individual and small group practical work; visual perception and motor skills experimental laboratories; a room with a one-way vision screen and closed-circuit television for social psychology and for developmental psychology; state-of-the-art neuroscience facilities; including provision for brain imaging research and for neurophysical recording from individual cells. There are additional computer facilities for specialised project work, reading room facilities and a social space where refreshments may be taken.
The Department has an excellent reputation for teaching and research. Over the past ten years the Department has received consistently high ratings in all national reviews of research excellence. In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, the Department received a 5A rating, and was ranked 4th in the country in the number of research active staff it submitted (out of 73 Psychology departments assessed). Research is closely integrated with teaching and the Department also received an "excellent" rating in a last review of teaching by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA).
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