Psychology Meeting on Postgraduate Recruitment

• There is a programme outreach and impact committee

• Named Masters are overshadowing un-named and PhD
• They don't want to take more into named, there needs to be more emphasis on the other programmes and the benefits of them. They don't want un-named to be perceived as second class.

The following info may be a bit muddled.

• Named/Specialist
  • focussed
  • no honours
  • do part 1+2 (part one is the same as honours but are told what courses to do)
  • research prep course which is one year long and very broad, these students become a strong cohort
• Honours
  • can still focus but are encouraged to explore more
  • generally they would prefer their Masters students went straight to PhD (but this might be something we can't say)
• Masters - part 2 (full year thesis)
  • placements
  • CDN masters is a pathway to PhD
  • Forensic applie dhas internships
• They have a lot of GrdDip students (200) who are doing this so they can do pg psychology. They would usually then go into honours.
• The official entry requirements are the same for both Honours and Masters. Unofficially Masters student would have better grades.

• research is very relevant and they are reworking their approach - we don't observe disciplinary boundaries
• Core areas of research (according to American Association of Psychology?)
  • Cognitive
  • Developmental
  • Social
  • Neuroscience/Biological
  • Behavioural
• Cross-cutting themes where people don't work in discipline silos:
  • addiction
  • memory
• How they choose their topic. Student research is independent. However, they are not expecte to show up with an idea, in fact they are encouraged not to. Their poject will be developed in collaboration with their supervisor.

• you will be part of the school and research groups as a pg student
• discussions
• active research groups
• CACR
• weekly seminar
• outside of school collaborations with linguistics, engineering and low
• conferences
• teaching opportunities

• Not to become a Psychologist - this is a protected term
• Psychological Scientists is teh term they use
• Doing pg will be useful to you if you have a job that encompasses human behaviour, it will help you to analyse, understand, study and mainipulate human behaviour.
• Gives you the ability to undertake original research
• Get great training in statistics - government snaps up students to do stats and policy work

• weekly seminars - people come in from government, allows them to network with industry
• colloquium series
• research groups - forensics have a lot of contact with Corrections, they work on projects for them.
• All students become part of teams who work on projects
• masters students get space and a computer. During Part 1 this is shared and during part 2 it will be their own. This isn't guaranteed though, currently it is true but in the future they may not be able to do this.

• contact supervisor when they apply
  • initially contact programme director
  • can contact individuals
  • staff profiles have info, many staff have their own site - often means they are part of international listings

• research fund is small
• conference funding is done at Victoria level
• scholarships
  • automatically apply for main one
  • other students apply independently for outside scholarships