Funded Research

Overview

The research record of the School has been one of remarkable growth and achievement over the past dozen years or so. The RAE 2008 panel for Psychology noted highlighted international excellent and world leading research activity in the School of Psychology, and praised the School's integrated and highly collaborative research activity. Over the lastest RAE period (2001-2008) over 800 journal articles have been published, academic staff numbers have increased form 27 to 39, external grant capture has increased from £11m to over £18m, and significant infra structure developments such as a new building and an MRI centre have been completed.

The exceptional growth and success of the School of Psychology has been driven in large part by a cohesive research strategy to recruit world-leading researchers. A central objective of the School is to establish international excellence in targeted domains of research. Developing these areas to the highest possible standard in turn serves to generate new focused research domains of quality.

Some Examples of Currently Funded Research

Project Title	Sponsor	Amount £
Enhancing Literacy Development in European Languages: Initial Training Network	Marie Curie ITN, EU	€911,450 to Bangor
Bilingualism Centre	ESRC	1,738,531
A comprehensive profile of awareness in early stage dementia	ESRC	529,285
Functional and anatomical mechanisms underlying the effects of cognitive rehabilitation in early state Alzheimer's disease	Alzheimer's Society	140,942
Effects of attentional and motivational training on reducing excessive drinking	ESRC	249,842
An investigation into approach/ avoid responses confabulatory patients	ESRC	70,341
Coordinating movements using optimal control: A neuro-computational perspective	BBSRC	283,711
Investigations of the neural basis of the perception of 'social vision'	BBSRC	182,687
Cognitive effects of bilingualism across the lifespan	ESRC	602,860
Learning as an explanation of behavioral adaptation in social settings: a pilot study of social cues as predictive signals and reinforcers	ESRC	78,040
How are cognitive sub-processes integrated in the brain?	Wellcome Trust	241,478
Using cognitive neuroscience to understand how consumers make and maintain healthy food choices	Marie Curie Trust	118,719
Cortical control of subcortical oculomotor reflexes: Effects of TMS of human oculomotor cortex on control of ocular fixation	Wellcome Trust	129,585
The Brain's Turing machine; Serial chaining at cognitive operations in human and non-human patients	HFSP	135,000
Vision for action: conditions for automatic processes	Wellcome Trust	592,980
Mirror systems and the perception and generation of action: Multivariate fMRI studies	ESRC	446,300
Late talking toddlers: relating phonological to lexical development	ESRC	387,775
Spatial coding and feature binding in the human pulvinar and parietal cortex	BBSRC	165,368
Improving 3D visualization: near-correct focus cues in 3D displays	EPSRC	301,297
Dementia and Neurodegene	WAG	359,467
Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (Bangor element)	WAG	2,390,555
Assessment Measures for Welsh-speaking Children	WAG	90,000