Courses at the PhD programme

The PhD and the Licentiate programme also require 5 credits in higher education pedagogics.

As a doctoral student at the Faculty of Social Sciences, you can select some of the faculty's joint doctoral student courses. When available, you can also attend courses arranged by other departments. You find all courses at the University of Gothenburg in the course database.

Nationalkommittén i psykologi (the Swedish National Committee for Psychological Sciences) lists doctoral courses in psychology provided by other higher education institutions in Sweden.

You decide together with your supervisor which courses you are to attend. If you have attended any previous courses for which credit transfers are required, this must be stated in the individual study plan. You apply to the courses in the course database. 

Courses in English at the Department of Psychology

For any question about registration, availability or upcoming courses, please contact the Postgraduate studies officer Ann Backlund, +46 (0)31-786 1637, e-mail: ann.backlund@psy.gu.se.

For questions about the content of a course, please see contact persons by following the course links.

Courses require at least five participants in order to be provided.

Mandatory courses

• General Research Methodology: Design, Analysis, and Report, 15 credits
• Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 1: Basic Course, 5 credits (HPE101)
  The course is offered every autumn and spring. Contact: The PIL-university unit 

Other courses

• Analysis of data from longitudinal designs, 7.5 credits
  This course will be held spring semester 2020
• Survey methodology: Construction of questions, data collection and evaluation of the survey, 7.5 credits
• Qualitative methods in psychological research – from data to complete manuscript, 7.5 credits
• Experimental methods, 7.5 credits
• Scientific communication in practice, 5.0 credits
  Teaching will take place throughout the programme by the PhD student’s participation in different activities.