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Panel 5 – BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE
Department have extended collaborations with clinical neurosciences,
psychiatry, logopedics and pediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine, and
with researchers in linguistics, cognitive science, mathematical statistics,
and sociology of law. Researchers at the Department also take part in
collaborations, e.g. in projects conducted within the Centre for Research
on People, Technology and Change at Work, UNIVA, School of Economics,
and School of Work Environment. Extramural collaborations
include national and international collaborations in developmental
psychology (almost all the other Swedish universities, University College
of Kristianstad, Malmö University College, Center for Lifespan
Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin,
University of Oslo, and Neurobehavioral Infant and Child Studies and
Child Development Unit, both at Harvard Medical School in Boston),
cognitive neuroscience (Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken,
Rikshospitalet in Oslo and Berkeley), linguistics (Oslo), early brain
development (Institute for Nutrition Research, Oslo), forensic psychology
(University College of Kristianstad, Göteborg University), creative
knowledge (Göteborg University).
The Department of Psychology thus no doubt has extended contacts with
other researchers connected to the profiles of research at the Department,
both nationally and internationally. As part of the collaboration between
the different Divisions at the Department, several of the academic staff
are also members of more than one Division and they also move between
Divisions when appropriate for the research questions being pursued.
1.4 Research activity and teaching
The Department has the ambition to integrate teaching and research
by tailoring course menus to fit with the different research areas in the
Divisions. Courses are taught based on literature and teaching rooted in
international research and research literature. Student essays are often
written within existing research projects, while PhD students may chose
whether they want to join existing research projects, or pursue their own
research plans. The background documents do not explicitly list the
number of postdoc positions at the Department. Postdoc positions are
important in terms of bridging between the PhD and the professorial
levels of research, and may provide the opportunity for a Division to go
deeper into its research questions than a PhD thesis project will allow,
and when the teaching load of the senior staff members prevents full-time
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