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The University of Adelaide’s School of Psychology is one of Australia’s most prestigious, offering you a world-class learning environment and delivering outstanding research and education.
Psychology is the scientific study and development of useful ways of understanding people’s thoughts and behaviours. If you wish to pursue a career or interest in psychology, the School of Psychology can take you in many rewarding directions.
Our research and teaching
Find out more about our discipline research and teaching excellence within the School of Psychology.
Health & Wellbeing Human Cognition & Performance Lifespan Development Education & Meta-Research Social & Cultural Dynamics
Head of School
Professor Peter Strelan’s research program is primarily concerned with understanding trait and state-level individual responses to wrongdoing. He has an international reputation for his research on the psychology of forgiveness. As a former co-Chair of the Adelaide Education Academy and previously Associate Dean Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, he is also a leader in learning and teaching at the University of Adelaide, with particular expertise in flipped classroom methodology.
Our researchers
Search our School researchers for information on their research, career, publications, HDR supervision and contact details.
Bachelor of Psychological Science
Psychological science investigates the way people think, behave, feel and learn. It studies processes of the human mind— including personality, intelligence and memory—so that we can better understand ourselves.
Latest news
Funding awarded to explore immune response in MS
MS Australia has recognised the work of University of Adelaide’s Dr Iain Comerford with a $25,000 Incubator Grant.
Magnetic approach to chemo-induced neuropathy
More than 80 per cent of bowel cancer survivors are living with chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN), a form of chronic nerve damage which can cause symptoms that range from mild pins and needles to losing all feeling and control in your hands and feet.
Diabetes and heart disease researchers funded
University of Adelaide’s Dr Emma Solly and Dr Sivabaskari Pasupathy will share in the latest round of funding from The Hospital Research Foundation Group’s Advancing Care and Treatment of Chronic Conditions in Priority Populations competitive grant round.