Psychology Research and Training Centre
Located at 105 Bond St. and completed in the Fall of 2007, the PRTC occupies around 15,000 sq. feet of research and student training space on the first and second floors of the South Bond Building. The PRTC features 31 dedicated research laboratories and 18 shared bookable rooms, including research-shared observation rooms, flexible interview/research and group therapy rooms, seminar and flexible conference rooms, a graduate student lounge, and several support and research staff offices.
Designed to our specialized needs, the labs in the PRTC are dedicated to such research areas as Anxiety Research and Treatment; Biopsychosocial Development; Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Processing; Brain Imaging and Memory; Brain and Early Experiences; Change, Evaluation, and Organizations; Cognition and Infancy; Child Self-Regulation; Cognition and Psychopathology; Cognitive Aging; Criminal and Investigative Psychology; Early Childhood Cognition; HIV Prevention; Health and Sport Psychology; Healthy Eating and Lifestyle; Media and Social Development; Memory and Decision Processes; Music Cognition; Neural Mechanisms of Social Perception; Posttraumatic Stress; Psychology and Law; Psychology of Crime and Delinquency; Psychophysiology of Anxiety, Stress and Eating Disorders; Psychosocial Medicine; Sexuality; Sleep and Depression; Social and Political Psychology; Stress and Healthy Aging; Cognitive Neuroscience; and Vision Science.
The PRTC also houses the Institute for Stress and Wellbeing Research. Faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and senior undergraduate students benefit from a research environment that fosters our integrative research and training theme while supporting the collective pursuit of science, discovery, health and wellbeing.
Central Location
The PRTC is situated in the heart of the university campus, flanked between Gould Street to the north and Dundas Street to the south and located within Toronto's Discovery District, which includes Ryerson as a partner institution. The PRTC is within walking distance of leading research hospitals including Hospital for Sick Children, Mount Sinai Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital, St. Michael's Hospital (also on Bond St.), and Toronto General Hospital - and therefore is ideally situated for linking research and practice.
How to Find Us
Psychology Research & Training Centre (PRTC) / 105 Bond St., Toronto. Get Directions (external link, opens in new window)
Historic Site
Located on Toronto’s historic Bond Street with its numerous heritage-designated buildings, the PRTC is housed in the former Doubleday Canada headquarters. This is where Doubleday started its publishing company in 1944 and later launched its Bond Street Books series; in fact, the connection between Bond Street and publishing is a rich one with links to Ryerson faculty. Ryerson purchased the building in 2006 and preserved the historic façade and exterior shell. In 2007, Ryerson gutted and redesigned the entire building to provide lab and graduate training space for Psychology on the second floor. Several years later, the PRTC expanded to include a large section of the first floor. The Department of Urban and Regional Planning is housed on the 3 and 4 floors, while the first floor is shared between Psychology and various ancillary university services (including Shipping and Receiving). Meticulously designed by Dzikowski Architects Inc. and built by Compass Construction Resources Ltd. to meet the LEED (external link) (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building rating system, the South Bond Building is a wonderful addition to Ryerson’s expanding footprint in downtown Toronto.
30+ Labs
Over 30 labs housed in our state-of-the-art Psychology Research and Training Centre (PRTC). Read more >