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The mission of the University is to maintain and enhance its distinctive contribution to society in a regional, national and international context by:
Providing high quality programmes of education and professional training,
Fostering the disinterested pursuit and dissemination of scholarship,
Promoting excellent research programmes.
The teaching aims of the School of Psychology are:
To broaden students’ knowledge of areas of Psychology and their understanding of how to apply them to everyday life,
To develop their capacity for critical thinking,
To develop skills in presenting an argument and/or data, both orally and in writing,
To develop numerical and computing skills, including familiarity with academic network services,
To inculcate knowledge about conducting experiments and surveys, and how to interpret their own and other people’s data,
To provide structured research opportunities which might lead to postgraduate research later,
To enable students to qualify for graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and later for Chartered Psychologist status.
School of Psychology
William Guild BuildingAbout the School
Psychology at Aberdeen began in 1896 with the appointment of George F Stout to the newly endowed Anderson Lectureship in Comparative Psychology. This lectureship is the oldest in Britain. Prior to this, the University had some eminent philosophers (Philosophy was the precursor of Psychology) such as Thomas Reid and Alexander Bain. Honours degrees in Psychology were introduced after the Second World War, first in Arts (MA) and then in Science (BSc) which remain to this day.
Currently the Department has 8 Professors, and 18 other full-time academic staff. It is located at King’s College in the William Guild Building, adjacent to the 600-seat Arts Lecture Theatre.
In August 2003, the Department of Psychology was incorporated into the College of Life Sciences and Medicine and became a School in its own right. A brief history of Psychology at Aberdeen is available.
School of Psychology · College of Life Sciences and Medicine · William Guild Building · University of Aberdeen · Aberdeen AB24 2UB
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