oldPsychology Research Volunteering Opportunities

The Psychology department is situated in 7 George Square in the centre of Edinburgh. Members of the academic staff and postgraduate students conduct a wide range of active research programmes, covering a number of different aspects of human mental life.  A list of research groups with links to research interests of individual staff members and descriptions of some of their research projects is here:

http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/research/

Our volunteers are a vital part of our research and their contribution is greatly valued. We maintain a list of volunteers who are invited at intervals to come to the department to participate in research studies.  You can also make direct arrangements to participate in certain studies by following the links below. (Our research projects don’t all have a web page or direct booking, so to maximise your opportunities to volunteer you should join the panel as well as using the links.) Our volunteers enjoy the experience of taking part in our studies and they gain a useful understanding of how psychology research takes place. They also generally learn some interesting and encouraging facts about themselves.  All research takes place under very strict ethical guidelines. Personal information about our volunteers is treated in strict confidence; no-one except the researcher ever gets to know people’s results from our studies. Our scientific results are always communicated in print in such a form that it is impossible to identify information about any particular individual. Volunteers may withdraw from the research at any time without giving a reason.

We hope you will enjoy being one of our volunteers; we look forward to seeing you.

To join the panel, contact the Volunteer Panel Officer, Psychology, School of Philosophy Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ. Phone: 0131 650 3458, fax: 0131 650 3461, email: volunteer.panel@mac.com.

Or access the application form here:

    UoEVP_Online Questionnaire
    UoEVP_Questionnaire.pdf
    UoEVP_Questionnaire.doc

To book directly to take part in some of our studies, go to:

    http://www.subjectpool.com/vr/participant/

(If you are a student participating for year 1 credit, click here)

See also:

Alzheimer’s Study http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/dual-task/get_involved.html
Working Memory Study http://www.homepages.ed.ac.uk/wwwcso/CSOindex.html

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