Participation hours refer to time spent serving as participants in psychological research taking place in the department, and provide an educationally valuable opportunity for you to experience real research from the perspective of the participant. Undergraduates are expected to serve as participants in each term semester of their first two years and complete a total of 18 hours across Years 1 and 2 of the degree. This is a programme requirement and Early Warning Reports are issued to students who do not complete the participation hours. To avoid receiving early warnings you need to have completed a minimum of three four and a half hours by the end of the Autumn term, a minimum of six hours by the end of the Spring term semester 1, and the full nine hours by the end of the academic year. Note that this is a relatively short amount of time and that this is lower than in many other similar Universities such as Leeds, Manchester and Kent.
Students are required to collect three to collect four and a half participation hours per termsemester, but may, if they wish, collect them within a shorter time frame in order to get ahead (e.g. 5 6 hours in term one semester 1 and 4 3 hours in termsemester 2).
Please visit the participants’ notice board in the Psychology building entrance foyer, and also the website SONA, on which experiment slots are advertised. if you sign on to an experiment through SONA, it will automatically record the participation hours associated with the study. If you do sign up for an experiment and don't turn up, then this will recorded and you will not be credited with the participation hours. First-year students are advised that they may also collect participation hours for their second year of study during the summer break
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