Psychology Department is a department with excellence in both research and teaching. This research strength extends across the wide variety of academic interests of the Department’s staff, from child health and development, perception, cognitive and behavioural neuroscience to the evolutionary basis of behaviour. The wide range and quality of the research interests of the staff in the Department allows us to offer a broad range of final-year option courses on both our degree courses. Our breadth of research strength means that you are guaranteed to be taught by some of the leading figures in their field of research. We offer two psychology degrees, Psychology and Psychology (Applied), with both courses demonstrating extensive depth and breadth in the field of psychology. Our applied research facilities related to neurorehabilitation, education, social, health and developmental psychology are based in Durham University’s Queen’s Campus and so this is where we offer our Psychology (Applied) degree course, while our Psychology course is based on the Mountjoy Site in Durham, which houses facilities for studying perception, developmental psychology, cognition and behavioural neuroscience, amongst others. Students on each degree course are encouraged to get involved in experiments being carried out by their lecturers, thus gaining a deeper and more hands-on understanding of the issues they are learning about in their degrees, adding to their contextual experience.