PhD in Psychology
 

Overview and Programme Goals

The PhD in Psychology is a research programme designed to equip students with doctoral-level knowledge in research methodology and substantive content knowledge in psychology, with a focus on areas in experimental, social, personality, and organizational psychology.

The goals of the programme are:

To equip students with state-of-the-art knowledge about the psychology research literature

To equip students with the basic and applied research skills for conducting empirical studies/projects as well as evaluating these studies/projects

To equip students with the skills to link theory, constructs, measurement, method, data analysis and inferences in substantive areas to make recommendations and decisions that are scientifically defensible

To train and mentor students to prepare them for psychology and psychology-related careers in academia and industry

 


Last updated on 1 April, 2011 by School of Social Sciences.