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🎓 Official PsychoPy Workshop (Virtual - Online training)¶
April 14th-17th 2026 – SOLD OUT
April 21st-24th 2026 (General Ticket Release Friday 13th. Until then, booking is exclusive to those on the waitlist for the first event, so stay tuned!)
Join us for an intensive, hands-on course in designing behavioural experiments — delivered by the creators of PsychoPy and Pavlovia.org.
Format: Four half-day sessions (13:00–17:00 UK time), covering two full days worth of post-graduate level training.
Who is it for: This workshop is ideal for beginners, PhD students, faculty, and industry researchers interested in using PsychoPy. No prior experience is required, though downloading the software in advance for familiarization is recommended. Experienced users will also benefit from advanced tips and best practices. Bespoke training options are available on request.
What you’ll learn:
How to design and run experiments studying human behaviour (reaction times, accuracy, and more).
Integrating Python code for flexible, customisable experiments.
Running experiments online via Pavlovia.org for large-scale recruitment.
Connecting experiments with hardware for physiological measurements (EEG, fMRI, eyetracking).
Whether you’re starting out with behavioural research or looking to refine your skills, this course offers interactive training and expert guidance from the team behind PsychoPy and Pavlovia.org.
Spaces are limited
👩💻 Women in Cognitive Science (WiCS) Workshop Series¶
We are pleased to be running a workshop series in collaboration with Women in Cognitive Science Europe (WiCS Europe) as part of their Building Inclusive Computational Skills initiative.
This four-part online workshop series will take place every Wednesday in March, from 12:00–13:00 (UK time). The workshops are designed for beginners and are ideal for researchers who would like to start using open-source tools in their research while learning the foundations of Python programming along the way.
Participants will be introduced to PsychoPy and guided through practical steps for designing, running, and extending experiments. No prior programming experience is required.
Workshop Schedule all sessions 12:00–13:00 (UK time):
March 4th: Introduction to PsychoPy
March 11th: Extending PsychoPy with Python Code
March 18th: Running Online Studies with PsychoPy
March 25th: Creating an Eye-Tracking Experiment in PsychoPy
How to Sign-up
Initially, registration will be open only to participants attending the WiCS Building Inclusive Computational Skills webinar. Click below to find more information, and sign up to that event:
🧠 Pre-Conference Workshop at the BPS Cognitive Section Meeting¶
📅 August 25th, 12:00–15:00 📍 Liverpool Hope University, UK
We are excited to be attending this year’s BPS Cognitive Section Meeting!
If you would like to join us for some PsychoPy and Pavlovia training, arrive a day before the conference for this pre-conference workshop. The session is tailored for beginners and is ideal for early-career researchers who are getting started with tools for designing and running cognitive experiments.
Participants will be introduced to the foundations of building cognitive tasks using PsychoPy, with practical guidance and hands-on examples throughout the session.
Registration will be open to BPS Cognitive Section attendees and will be available to book during conference registration.
One-to-one tutorials¶
If you need to create a task for a specific project, but you’de like to learn along the way, build it with us!
Brief us on your project.
We create bespoke material on how to create your paradigm.
One-to-one video calls to co-create your task.
Learn PsychoPy and/or Pavlovia, and leave with your experiment!
Arrange a workshop for your lab or department¶
In person or virtual, we can develop bespoke content to suit your needs.
We can cover a range of topics, including:
Builder basics. Introduce your team to what is possible using the Builder interface to create a huge range of studies
Running experiments online with Pavlovia.
Get started with Python coding by making experiments - a fun, visual, way to learn how to code.
Learn how to create experiments that interact with a range of hardware, Eyetracking, EEG, fMRI, or something else!
Content tailored to Undergraduate, Postgraduate or Research Staff level.
Open science¶
We make all of the materials from our workshops open access! Click the cards below to download as pdfs or power point slides. Please feel free to re-use materials in your teaching and your own workshops!
Presented at: European Conference on Visual Perception, ECVP, 2024
Staircases Psychophysics online
Presented at: University of Nottingham, BSc course
Data extraction Python
Presented at: University College London, November 15th 2023
Data extraction Python
PsychoPy Builder Presenting stimuli Gathering keyboard responses Setting up trial lists
PsychoPy Builder Counterbalancing Adaptive procedures Staircases Branched designs
Pavlovia Daisy chaining with recruitment platforms Surveys and Questionnaires with Pavlovia Surveys Counterbalancing online Multisessrion testing
Python code PsychoPy library
EEG Eyetracking fMRI Serial and parallel ports
💬 What Attendees say¶
I’m grateful to the PsychoPy team for organizing an excellent workshop. The hands-on practice sessions were incredibly valuable, allowing us to create our own experiments. Rebecca was an exceptional trainer, and Sue provided great support in designing experiments during each session. Kim was also very helpful in setting up hardware connections. I highly recommend attending their workshop if you’re looking to program experiments with PsychoPy.
The three workshops I attended were really fundamental in understanding the basics of the logic of designing and programming psychopy experiments. The lecturers were very helpful and precise. Thank you very much for the valuable events you organised.
There is great material on YouTube for learning psychopy, but the live workshops are interactive and we can meet the team, ask questions, and get to understand the broader logic of the psychopy/Pavlovia project. It is pleasant to get to know the people making it happen, and it is really great value for the knowledge you get.
If you’re looking to get started with PsychoPy, this workshop is an absolute must-attend. By following the patient tutors step by step to create experiments, I’ve learned a lot, even some insights I hadn’t anticipated.
You can go from being completely lost at how to use psychopy to feeling super confident in your abilities over the workshop. I’ve gone from 0 experiments to having 2.5 experiments built! I’m certain this would have taken me as many months to get to this stage if I was on my own.If you’re interested in running studies in the lab or online then this workshop is a must!
I would highly recommend this workshop for anyone interested in using PsychoPy for their research! The workshop is extremely well organised and Becca, Jon and the rest of the team do a fantastic job in helping you develop the confidence and skills to effectively use PsychoPy. Whether you have a specific experiment that you’d like to build, or simply want to learn the basics, this workshop caters to researchers of all programming levels.
Useful if you are totally beginner with PsychoPy