Durham Psychology

Are you a business professional seeking a flexible online program to hone your analytical and leadership skills? 🌐 Our brand new Executive MSc in Behavioural Science @durham_uni could be for you! Find out more: brnw.ch/21wGekN

We are The Times and The Sunday Times University of the Year 2026 and ranked third overall in its Good University Guide. Congratulations to our global university community on this success.🎉 Read more: brnw.ch/21wVU4M

A new @DurhamPsych study shows new mothers only have about an hour of their waking day for rest, leading to stress, loneliness and emotional exhaustion. brnw.ch/21wVwny @thuyvytnguyen @WolfsonResearch @DurhamImh @RMCentreDurham @ESRC

A new study involving Professor @zannaclay of @DurhamPsych reveals the way in which babies are soothed could be more important than how quickly mothers respond🤱👶 👉 Read more about this fascinating research: brnw.ch/21wVv7J #DUresearch #DUinspire @APA

Congratulations to all 20 of our researchers who will be part of expert sub-panels for #REF2029 👏 👉Read more : brnw.ch/21wVtsg @Ref2029 #research #excellence

Deadline for applications is 16th September!

Come and work with us! Assistant Professor role available, full-time & permanent and is open to applicants from all areas of psychology. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to teaching in forensic psychology➡️bit.ly/3V7nqW9

The #ReaderBank Imagination Quiz aims to understand how people imagine differently when reading – and could have potential implications for the treatment of mental ill health. 👉🏼 brnw.ch/21wUSuN @DurhamImh @DurhamPsych @edbookfest #transformativehumanities

Progress to Postgrad 📆 10 June📍Confluence Centre 🎓PG study is the next step after your UG degree to boost your employability 📚 Delve deeper into your undergraduate subject or discover a new field of study 🙌 Discover our Alumni Fee Scholarship 👉 brnw.ch/21wT8K1

Deadline is just over a week away! See details and link below for job spec and how to apply.

Please join us on Friday 9 May 1-2pm to hear Dr Sasha Cook speak about 'Health and Illness-Oriented Leadership for Employees with Chronic Health Conditions (CHC)' Details below ⬇️

🎉Congratulations to Professor Graham Towl from @DurhamPsych who has been awarded the prestigious @BPSOfficial Lifetime Achievement Award. 🎉 Graham’s distinguished career is defined by an unwavering commitment to improving and saving lives. Read more👉brnw.ch/21wSpDL

📣We are hiring! Join us as a Career Development Fellow, full-time, fixed-term post from this September. To read more and apply 👉 bit.ly/42XI93k Deadline 22nd May. #academicjobs #psychology #psychologyjobs

Pioneering new research by our Department of Psychology has uncovered the hidden toll of #PMDD on daily life and relationships. Discover more 👉 brnw.ch/21wSbM8 #DUResearch @DurhamPsych @DrSHodgetts

New paper by Dr Karolina Nieberle published in Organizational Psychology Review 'Voice Echoes: A Critical Review and Future Research Agenda on the Consequences of Employee Voice for Voicers, their Co-workers, and Managers', bit.ly/4i2rq3o

Congrats @PatrickKotzur Prof Stefania Paolini @durham_uni & team for receiving International Best Paper Award from the Society of Existential Psychology for 'Psychological well-being in Europe after the outbreak of war in Ukraine - Nature Communications'👏go.nature.com/3E5CmiF

For our final seminar this term we welcome Dr Sarah Lloyd Fox to speak to us on 'The power of longitudinal designs to understand global infant development' Friday 21st March from 1-2pm, Psychology Department, room L68 - further details below.

Public Lecture: Wednesday 19th March Dr Robert Chapman ‘Neurodiversity in the age of Late Fascism’ from 5pm and an exhibition ‘Autism through an Autistic Lens’ from Sarah Dantas 3:30-5pm. Register here: bit.ly/4hEiNeX

We're back again with a new video on assessing visual perception difficulties. This time we focus on object agnosias. How to easily tell apart associative, apperceptive agnosia and optic aphasia. 🧑‍🎓🩺🧠 Find out: youtu.be/1W4F7Wp0qcA

We are thrilled to announce that we have once again been ranked in the top 100 in the prestigious QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025. Read more about this achievement and the research that has helped us secure our success: bit.ly/4iEMdec

Prof. Lore Thaler from our Psychology department explains why she thinks people with visual impairments should be taught to explore the world through mouth-click sounds. Learn more: brnw.ch/21wRdNM @nature