PhD in Psychology

The PhD in Psychology emerges as the fruit of a serious investment in this scientific area, not only through the provision of a highly qualified and research-oriented teaching staff, but also through the investment in its own infrastructures and specific resources, which serve both pedagogical and how they assume themselves as intentional promoters of the scientific activities of students and teachers. The study plan emphasizes the recognition and integration of the most recent research trends in psychology, both conceptual and methodological.

Why a PhD in Psychology?

Main benefits

Given the research potential and the results already obtained by the teaching team, this cycle of studies has 3 areas of specialization:

• Clinical and Health Psychology
• Economic and Organizational Psychology
• Educational and Developmental Psychology.

The investment made in infrastructures and resources, as well as the research networks that teachers have built throughout their careers, will enable original research to be carried out in the field of Psychology in close coordination with research projects developed by researchers at the Universidade Europeia , whether individually, either as part of the research projects they coordinate, or through attendance at the UC “Immersion in Psychology Research Projects”, or through completion of the doctoral thesis. Furthermore, this investment also allows contact with excellent researchers, namely through the holding of the UC “Doctoral Seminar in Psychology” and the invitation for these personalities to participate in the thesis project and doctoral thesis juries. It is expected to stimulate the production of doctoral students and the dissemination of results within the scientific community, to which the UC “Research Development and Publication” will make a relevant contribution, supporting the intentionalization of their scientific research work in Psychology, for the promotion of its publication/dissemination within the scientific community and society.

General objectives

Provide doctoral students with advanced training in psychology in the theoretical and methodological domain, as well as in-depth knowledge of research in psychology, both fundamental and applied

• Stimulate the production of doctoral students and the dissemination of results within the scientific community
• Promote contact with excellent researchers with a view to expanding frontiers in science and expanding research horizons
• Create the necessary conditions to carry out original research in the field of Psychology in close coordination with research projects developed by researchers at the Universidade Europeia , either individually or as part of the research projects they coordinate.

Specific objectives

• Demonstrate a systematic understanding of the scientific area of Psychology, particularly in the area of selected specialization
• Reveal mastery and mastery in research methodologies in Psychology
• Demonstrate the competence to design, plan and implement a scientifically rigorous research project, complying with all academic integrity criteria and ethical and deontological procedures in Psychology
• Contribute through original scientific research to expanding the frontiers of knowledge, providing the technological, social and cultural development of the knowledge society
• Develop extensive work based on the most rigorous scientific criteria, capable of national and international recognition, through publication indexed in reference databases
• Critically analyze, evaluate and synthesize new and complex ideas
• Communicate efficiently with your peers, the academic community and society.