Overview and Programme Goals

The PhD in Psychology is a research programme designed to equip students with doctoral-level knowledge in contents areas in psychology and research methodology, focusing on areas in cognitive, cultural, developmental, 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