Humanities & Social Science Labs
The Humanities & Social Science Labs (HSS Labs) are located in Mithras House (Rooms 111 – 123). The Labs are here to support University of Brighton students and staff at all levels to carry out research and in incorporating Lab equipment and resources within teaching. We also run events, demonstrations and Lab tours for Research events, Open days, Applicant days & Summer schools.
The Lab spaces are run by the Senior Technicians within the school, who provide support with using the Lab spaces, Lab equipment and specialist research software. Our technicians are dedicated Psychology Technicians who provide support on our Psychology and Psychology joint honours courses. If you are interested in Psychology or you are a current UoB Psychology student, please see below:
- Interested in our Psychology Courses? – Please see our Psychology HSS Labs page for information on how the Lab can support Psychology students at the University and the Psychology degrees webpage for information on the courses offered.
- Current Psychology Students – Please sign in to our Psychology Portal for access to our Lab resources: Psychology Portal
University of Brighton students and staff – Please see our Mithras Labs SharePoint page on the School of Humanities and Social Science SharePoint site for access to our full range of Lab resources.
In the Lab we can help with:
- Identifying the best Psychological measure/s to use.
- Using specialist Psychological equipment
- Using online survey building platforms (E.g. Qualtrics & Gorilla)
- Setting up and running online surveys or experiments
- Setting up and running interviews or focus groups
- Participant recruitment
- Transcription & Qualitative analysis
- Using statistical analysis software, such as SPSS, Jamovi and R & RStudio
- Data analysis – Psychology dissertation students, please make sure you have confirmed your analysis plan with your supervisor prior to meeting with the Lab.
Our Lab spaces contain a variety of research spaces, which can be used for conducting equipment based research, interviews and focus groups, events, workshops, seminars & training sessions. You can find out more about our Lab spaces on our Lab Spaces page.
You can also find out more about the equipment we have within our Labs here.
For information on the courses taught within the School of Humanities and Social Science, please see the School of Humanities and Social Science webpage below:
If you have any questions or would like to get in touch, please contact us using the email address below:
Lab Email – HSSlabs@brighton.ac.uk
Psychology students and staff please contact the Lab using – HSSpsychlab@brighton.ac.uk
Andrea Lobley & Grace Milsom – Senior Technicians