Faculty of Psychology

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Welcome to the Faculty of Psychology

At the Faculty of Psychology you will meet a highly qualified, engaged and ambitious staff that focuses strongly on quality in research as well as teaching. International collaboration is a cornerstone in all our doings, which is reflected in our research and in the number of programmes and courses offered in English. We want to attract engaged students, and offer them close collaboration with our research groups, as well as opportunities to progress to a PhD in all study areas.

Departments

There are five departments at the Faculty of psychology:

Life in a research group

Are you curious about what it is like to be a researcher in a research group at the Faculty of psychology? Watch this video about the history and research of the Bergen fMRI group (approxomately 20 minutes).

A multidisciplinary faculty

The Faculty of Psychology is a multidisciplinary faculty that currently teaches 1600 students and offers a substantive number of studies leading to a wide range of academic and professional qualifications. These cover a variety of disciplines, ranging from professional studies in psychology and teacher training, to bachelor and masters degrees in child welfare, gender and development, pedagogy, health promotion, psychology, work and organisational psychology and speech and language therapy. The faculty has three graduate schools, as well as several research groups.

PSYCHOLOGY

Help at hand for schizophrenics

How can healthy people who hear voices help schizophrenics? Finding the answer for this is at the centre of research conducted at the University of Bergen.
PSYCHOLOGY

When children are clients

Parents are both part of the solution and part of the problem when a child suffers from mental health problems.
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New brain-test app

Smartphones offer a wealth of possibilities for psychological research. A new study shows that an iPhone app yields as reliable results as laboratory tests.
MENTAL HEALTH

Mental health of fathers can affect foetus

A three-year old child is at increased risk of emotional problems if its father had mental health issues during the pregnancy.
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Part-time professor – fulltime commitment

A highly dedicated part-time professor gives the PhD-students at the Faculty of Psychology a great opportunity to visit a highly recognized sleep lab at the University of California, Berkeley. - An important resource to our doctoral education, says the vice-dean of research at the faculty.