About us
Find out more about who we are and what we do.
Who we are
The CRCSD brings together expertise in the fields of cultural and cross-cultural psychology with real-world applications in educational and organisational settings.
We form the largest expert group of researchers in the UK who work in these subfields of psychology. We host large-scale comparative and applied research projects, supervise international research students from different world regions, and work collaboratively with behavioural economists, political scientists, organizational behaviour experts, linguists, and sociologists across different schools at Sussex and other institutions around the world.
We host unique expertise in designing comparative research across different groups, handling comparative data, and working with big survey data from sources such as the World Values Survey and the European Social Survey.
Our research has attracted external support from funding organisations such as the European Research Council, the British Academy, Templeton Foundation, the ESRC as well as from various learned societies and scientific organisations (e.g., European Association of Social Psychology, British Psychological Society) and charities and trusts.
Aims
Our aim is to coordinate, support, and publicise research in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex and beyond which contributes to making psychological knowledge more societally relevant and culturally representative. We do this by:
- facilitating the formation of new collaborations with researchers in different parts of the world
- providing training in conducting valid, reliable, and effective comparative psychological research
- sharing methodological and analytical expertise in designing, conducting, or accessing studies that have a societal or cultural focus (e.g., handling multilevel data, developing scales that have cross-cultural validity, working with longitudinal panel data)
- facilitating access to special populations through our existing links (e.g., schools in neighbourhoods of different socio-economic status, ethnic minority groups, populations in different world regions)
- highlighting the sensitivities required when conducting research with different groups and promoting the use of inclusive, representative, and decolonizing approaches to research
- providing input into grants that have an international, comparative, or societal focus
- building connections between researchers and non-academic bodies to promote societal impact of our research.
We also provide a platform where maintain existing and develop new interdisciplinary links with members of other Schools at Sussex and beyond, and apply for funding to support these links.
Contact
Director
Prof Ayse K. Uskul
Deputy director
Dr Matthias Gobel