Research (School of Social and Health Sciences)

Course Structure

1. Face recognition (both theoretical and applied)
2. Forensic Psychology and Forensic mental health
3. Stereotyping processes relating to gender and social class in the domains of education, health and the law
4. Human Factors, Human performance in an applied context
5. Evolutionary progression of cognitive abilities, taking a comparative approach to look at cognitive underpinnings of complex behaviours displayed by modern hominids
6. How experience during critical developmental stages affects cognitive development in humans and non-humans
7. Social cognition - self-reference effects in memory
8. The early development of self-processing biases, and implications for learning and education
9. The impact of ownership on cognition
10. Effects of stereotypes on cognition and behaviour
11. Person perception across the lifespan
12. Strengths and weaknesses of human memory
13. Applying psychology theory from social cognition and memory domains to real-life issues such as everyday memory use and the accuracy of eyewitness testimony
14. Social influences on memory, such as the effects of discussion on subsequent memory accuracy
15. Identifying the cognitive and social factors operating in collaborative retrieval and recognition
16. Animal Behaviour in wild, zoo or domesticated animals
17. Personality and psychometrics
18. Zoo visitor behaviour (public engagement and understanding)
19. Social Movements and Political Protest
20. Environmentalism
21. Work & Employment
22. Education and Training
23. Political Sociology
24. Sex Education, Sexuality and Social Movement Activity
25. Issues related to gender, feminism, rape, sexual assault, domestic abuse, commercial sexual exploitation, legal responses to sexual offences, alcohol
26. Ethnicity, migration and integration
27. Epistemology and belief systems
28. The sociology of emotion
29. Social Theory
30. Nation and Society
31. Class
32. Welfare Movements
33. Collective Memory
34. Cultural Technologies Urbanism
35. Discourses of occupational identities
36. Doctor-patient interactions and shared decision-making
37. Tourism as visual experience
38. Death and dying
39. Young people and crime,
40. Criminal justice and gender
41. Gender violence
42. Personal development planning, graduate attributes and citizenship within higher education
43. Media portrayals of mental illness in 19th Century Dundee
44. Measuring recovery in mental health
45. Hope Studies
46. Perspectives on the Self
47. Epistemic Development and Style
48. Human Load Carriage
49. Energy cost
50. Electromyographic aspects
51. Subjective perceptions
52. Novel loading systems
53. Strength and Conditioning
54. Strength and power training regimens
55. Autoregulatory training
56. Training for strength and power with no external load
57. Novel training methods
58. Role of microRNAs in human disease processes and their utilization as blood biomarkers
59. Regulation of skeletal muscle metabolism in type 2 diabetes
60. Diseases of the eye and secondary complications of type 2 diabetes
61. Training modalities to enhance performance and health
62. Nutrition to promote performance and health
63. Participation in extreme sports Sport, motivation and motivational climates
64. Outdoor education
65. Sport and social policy