We’re passionate about developing students' ambitions and careers.
We're located at ARU's Cambridge campus and at Compass House, our dedicated centre for sport and sensory science. Our Optometry and Ophthalmic Dispensing students also gain valuable hands-on experience at our own University Eye Clinic.
We offer a range of courses at undergraduate, postgraduate level and research levels. Many of our courses are approved or accredited by professional bodies.
In Psychology, we maintain student-staff ratios at 20:1 in accordance with requirements for British Psychological Society accreditation.
Students on sensory science courses benefit from our extensive links with the optical and healthcare sectors, including local hospitals and charitable organisations, the Federation of Ophthalmic and Dispensing Opticians (FODO), Specsavers Opticians, Boots Opticians, and the General Optical Council.
Our sports courses are developed in close collaboration with industry. We have links with organisations including the British Paralympic Association, National Soccer Coaches Association of America, GB Archery and Cambridge United FC.
Our team of academic, technical and support staff take pride in delivering an up-to-date and exciting curriculum, while offering a friendly atmosphere in which you can thrive.
We're home to several research areas, focusing on themes including cognition, development and lifespan, body and self, clinical wellbeing, audiology, optometry, vision sciences, and sport and exercise science.
Our psychology research is split into two research centres: the ARU Centre for Mind and Behaviour and our ARU Centre for Societies and Groups. It was rated as world-leading in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). This places us as one of the top psychology departments in any post-1992 UK university.
Cambridge Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences carries out research in sports psychology, physiology, biomechanics and coaching. Its accredited labs are home to the Performance and Exercise Testing Consultancy, which offers services to individual athletes and sports teams. It's also a place where our sports students gain hands-on experience.
Our Vision and Hearing Sciences Research Centre brings together sensory science researchers with a range of interests including anterior eye and contact lenses, applied hearing, low vision, visual function and clinical communication, and visual perception and paediatrics.
We offer two research programmes: a Psychology PhD and a Sport and Exercise Sciences PhD.
We've also identified a range of research project opportunities in psychology and sport and exercise sciences.
Interested in studying at ARU? Speak to lecturers, take a tour of our facilities, and chat to students at an Open Day.