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Psychology laboratories and resources

Our laboratories contain a number of specially designed rooms for our students to conduct a wide range of research. You'll find them on the fifth floor of Joseph Lancaster Building in rooms J501 to J506, adjoining the rear of the second level main Borough Road Building. The laboratory is staffed from 9am to 5pm but is closed for lunch between 12.30pm and 1.30pm.

Facilities and apparatus

Our two larger rooms are mostly set aside for teaching and J503 features dedicated computers for psychology students. We stock a wide range of apparatus and test materials that are available for staff and students to use.

Available Psychology Facilities
Room number	Lab facility
J503	Computer laboratory / seminar room
J504	Observation room / seminar room / student resource room
J504 A, J504 D, J504 E	Cubicle / computer room
J504 B	Cubicle / Physiological recording (BIOPAC)
J504 C	Cubicle / Eye tracker room
J505	Audio visual / psychometric assessment (with one-way mirror)

Every item in the lab carries a unique inventory tag number. This number helps our staff provide you with the items you need so it's important you make a note of it.

Below, download documents with detailed information of the apparatus on offer. If you cannot find the item you need check with laboratory staff as we regularly purchase new material.

Laboratory requirements

A set of procedures need to be followed by undergraduate students wanting to use the psychology laboratory and its facilities. In general:

You must discuss your requirements with the appropriate member of staff (e.g. project supervisor) and on the basis of this identify your requirements as precisely as possible.
Liaise with Richard Fenn or Agata Pier our laboratory technicians, who may ask you to complete one or more registration/requisition forms. In a few cases where specialist advice about equipment is needed you may have to contact Simon Noyce, Experimental Officer.
The new inventory and loans system keeps track of all borrowing and returns. You will be required to sign a loans form and a finance insurance form. Before doing so, please ensure you read all of the conditions as you will be held to them.
It is your responsibility to ensure that loans are returned on or before the specified return date. Failure to do so will result in sanctions being placed on your future borrowing.
Please note that you will be held responsible for any loss or damage to equipment you sign out. You may not be allowed to graduate if you have outstanding debts and police prosecution may be actioned if you fail to return loaned items.

Try to make your order very clear. Wherever possible your request will be met but it's advisable to make contingency plans in case it cannot. It is possible there may be delays in fulfilling your order so be prepared for this. Also, demand for some facilities is high so you may have to share them with others.

Research Participation Scheme

Anyone in the department undertaking research can benefit from using our Research Participation Scheme (RPS). We invite all current Level 1 and Level 2 undergraduates (both Single and Combined Honours) to join. However, to use the scheme you must contribute to it by taking part in the research of others. Your involvement will:

give you the opportunity to learn about various aspects of Psychology and research methodology
enable other investigators to carry out high quality research
enable you to recruit participants for your Level 3 Psychology project or other research

Please note you will need to contact the laboratory to set up an RPS account before you can use the system. When you have done you can login to the Psychology RPS System.

Contact

Book in advance for access to technical and learning support or to use a room by emailing psytech@lsbu.ac.uk

Sean Rooney and Agata Pier
Laboratory Technicians
Tel: 020 7815 8030
Email: psytech@lsbu.ac.uk

For laboratory management contact:
Simon Noyce
Psychology Experimental Officer
Tel: 020 7815 5876
Email: noycesd@lsbu.ac.uk