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Department
Welcome Back!
YEAR 3 induction
Department of
Psychology
Department
Welcome Back!
Professor Kathy RastleHead of Department
Department of
Psychology
Department
Welcome Back!
Dr. Rob Hughes Director of Undergraduate
Programmes
Department of
Psychology
‘Information for current students’ page
Coursework submission
New Handbook
Your Year Co-ordinator: Dr. Steve Hammett
Admin Office
What’s new?
Y3 induction
Progression information
• Must take PS3200: Final year project (1 unit), plus your options to a total of 4 units
• To have Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (BPS accreditation) you must:– pass final year project– graduate with minimum 2:2 degree classification
Y3 induction
What contributes to the final degree classification…
Y3 induction
Contribution to your degree classification
Year 233%
PS320016.7%
8.3%
8.3%
8.3%
8.3% 8.3%
8.3%
Y3 induction
Yr 2
Examples…
EX 1: Y2 = 65%, PS3200 = 75%, Option average = 75%
EX 2: Y2 = 65%, PS3200 = 75%, Option average = 68%
EX 3: Y2 = 58%, PS3200 = 65%, Option average = 65%
EX 4: Y2 = 55%, PS3200 = 78%, Option average = 78%
%....
What if you do relatively poorly on a piece of coursework…don’t
panic!• The impact on the final degree classification of a 55% vs.
65% mark for a piece of coursework is minimal…
• Consider an option course with coursework contributing 50% to the overall course mark
65*.50*.67/8 = 2.72 contributing marks
55*.50*.67/8 = 2.30 contributing marks
Y3 induction
National Student Survey (NSS)
• Forms online, January through to March• Feed into League Tables• Teaching, feedback, personal development
• College usually offers entry into a lottery for completing the survey (prizes)
• Important that we get a good response rate!
Y3 induction
Providing us with feedback
• Course feedback forms (end of term)
• On-line (anytime)
• Staff-student committee (one per term)
Yr 3 induction
Equality and Diversity in our Department• Making the Department and the College more equal and diverse is a
part of our ethos (the college has won a number of awards for both gender and race equality)
• Athena Scientific Women's Academic Network (Athena SWAN): Promotes the advancement of gender equality in academia (staff and students) addressing unequal gender representation and removing the obstacles faced by women in particular.
• Process: identify inequalities, set out evidence-based plans to tackle them, show how plans have reduced inequalities. We are one of few Psychology Departments to hold an Athena Swan Silver Award for doing this (link to full details is on the Departments home page)
• What can YOU do? (i) Student representation on our Athena SWAN team; (ii) Tell us where the inequalities are, and help us to fix them (participate in our anonymous student equality survey, join our focus groups, and tell us your views)
• We want to hear from everyone: The views of both women and men on our degree programmes are important
• More information: Prof. Narender Ramnani ([email protected], Athena SWAN Chair for Psychology)
BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER IS …
This date:
Thursday, December 10th, ~7pm – 10pm...
YES, we are planning the next PANTO!
(more information to follow…)
Your final year…….Steve Hammett
• Cheap(er) books• Changing options• Dissertations• Inter-Library Loans• Student Reps
Cheap(er) booksGood morning Steve,
I am e-mailing you to let you know that Cengage Learning are offering up to 30% discount on our Cengage Brain website.
Your students will be able to take advantage of this discount for hard copies, e-books (where available) and e-book chapters (again where available) on said website.
This offer is only available until Saturday 31st October 2015.
To obtain the discount the students need to;
-Go to http://www.cengagebrain.co.uk/shop/index.html
-Search for a particular author, title, ISBN or subject area they would like a text for (e.g. study skills)
-Select the relevant text, add to cart and proceed to checkout
-At checkout, enter discount code 2015CENGAGE30 when prompted
• Deadlines for term 1 options is: Friday 9th October• Email psyoffice@rhul and attach change of option
form• Option changes must adhere to the selection
guidelines
Changing Options
Option Selection Guidelines
• “All-Round” Psychology: choose 6 out of all half-unit options in psychology: at least one from each block, and no more than three from any block
• “Streams” Choose 6 from the relevant stream
• UPDATE: Streams CAN choose a Dissertation
• 1 or 2 of the above options may be replaced by relevant course(s) outside of psychology with a maximum weight of 1.0
• You MUST take courses with an overall weight of 3.0
all-round Psychology
YEAR 3 OPTIONS weight course coordinator Term
Block 1: Clinical and Developmental
PS3041 - ADVANCED DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY 0.5 Jeanne Shinskey1
PS3110 - ADULT PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS 0.5 Tamar Pincus 1
PS3061 - THE AGEING BRAIN 0.5 Steve Hammett 1
PS3050 - HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY 0.5 Afsane Riazi 2
PS3121 - DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS 0.5 Courtenay Norbury 2
Block 2: Applied psychology
PS3090 - ADVANCED AND APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 0.5 Marco Cinnirella
1
PS3151 - OCCUPATIONAL AND ORGANISATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 0.5 Hanna Zagefka
1
PS3171 - HUMAN PERFORMANCE: WORK, SPORT AND MEDICINE 0.5 Szonya Durant
1
PS3190 - EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 0.5 Patrick Leman 2
PS3181 - CRIMINAL AND FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY 0.5 Amina Memon 2
Block 3: Neuroscience and cognition
PS3131 - HUMAN NEUROPSYCHOLOGY 0.5 Scott Glover 1
PS3141 - CLINICAL AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE 0.5 Narender Ramnani 1
PS3031 - METHODS IN COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE 0.5 Jonas Larsson 2
PS3060 - CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION 0.5 Robin Walker 2
PS3022 - LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION, AND THOUGHT 0.5 Kathy Rastle
2
Other Options
PS3210 - Dissertation 0.5 Steve Hammett 1 or 2
options from other Departments external 1 or 2
Number of Option Choices Available to Students 16
Dissertations
DissertationsA substantial piece of original written work: Identify a research question that has not been comprehensively
covered in the degree programme
Construct a literature review that addresses the research question
Takes the form of an in-depth, advanced level extended essay
The Dissertation is not an empirical piece of work
Supervision meetings
Dissertation students meet with the supervisor four times to discuss:
– a suitable topic area– the suitability of the dissertation question– the reference material to be included– the 1600-word outline of the dissertation structure
Meetings are arranged on an individual basis by the student and the supervisor.
Supervisor Choices
Supervisor voting to be completed by
10:00 Mon 12th October 2013
Voting
Departmental intranet
http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/Student_intranet/Dissertations/sign_up.asp
Supervisor Choices
Select your six preferred supervisors from the drop-down menus in rank order.
Note that you MUST make SIX selections prior to submission.
Supervisor allocations
Aim to provide allocations on Fri 16th October
Projects
Project changes for 2015
Recruiting Subjects Participants
Project changes
Increase in Prize incentive to £40 Introducing the use of the RPS Prize Pool Four hundred potential subjects
Using the RPS
Apply for the Prize Money first using the Resources form on Moodle
Wait for ethics approval Email [email protected] requesting
an RPS account Advertise your study
Inter-Library loans
Two ILL codes will be e-mailed to each of you in the near future
Please contact the office ([email protected]) if you need further ILLs
• Submit nominations for student representatives for Staff-Student Committee.
• To become a rep, email the following info to [email protected] using SSC Reps in the subject line.
• Name:• Student ID:• Programme of Study:• Year:
Student Reps
Careers and Employability
Dr Szonya Durant
www.rhul.ac.uk/careers
Royal Holloway Careers Service
www.rhul.ac.uk/passport
- CV and cover letter advice- mock interviews- careers advice- internships/work experience/jobs- twitter feed/workshops/fairs
https://campus-connect.rhul.ac.uk/
Dept. of Psychology Careers & Employability
MEET OUR GRADS•Thursday 29th October•Moore Building Lecture Theatre•Free pizza and wine!
Thank you –Any questions?
AND REMEMBER TO COME TO THE WELCOME (BACK) PARTYAT MEDICINE AT 2.30pm TODAY!