Welcome to the School of Psychology
The School of Psychology is one of the largest in the University and is also, we believe, one of the very best.
Social media must confront its role in terrorism says Dr Paul Ralph in an open letter written on behalf of students enrolled in Computer Science 345: Human-Computer Interaction. Read more.
Senior Lecturer Dr Gwenda Willis gives us 10 minutes of her time to discuss her research about how to work effectively with people who have sexually offended, to prevent re-offending.
Visit us in Alfred Nathan House for information and advice on your degree, your enrolment, fee payments, how to find your way around the campus, Campus Card, visa renewals and more.
We lead psychological science, scholarship and practice and most of our academic staff have impressive international research reputations, and several are recognised among the world leaders in their fields. Our teaching is very highly regarded, and we have several winners of Distinguished Teaching Awards on our staff. We see a strong link between research and teaching as the unique advantage that studying at a major international university offers.
Read more about our notable achievements, awards and rankings.
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Social and cultural lives of animals vital tool for conservation
27 February 2019Young animals learn social and cultural behaviours from the adults around them just like humans do. Scientists say these learned social behaviours are a powerful conservation tool. -
NZ Cricket’s silent message to NZ women
21 February 2019Professor Nicola Gavey writes about the Scott Kuggeleijn affair and the loud message received by women through NZ Cricket's culture of silence. -
Do crows plan ahead just like humans playing chess?
08 February 2019New study shows crows have ability to plan three behaviours ahead in a way that may be similar to humans planning moves in chess. -
Educator and philanthropist awarded Honorary Doctorate
23 January 2019German-born scientist and education philanthropist Dr Beate Schuler will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Auckland.
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Equity Initiative Grant open for applications
18 March 2019The Faculty of Science is seeking applications for the Equity Initiative Grant. Applications close 15 April 2019. Read more and download an application form. -
Funded Doctoral Internships in Mumbai and Medellín
12 February 2019PhD candidate Shohin Aheleroff is in Colombia building international networks and using his expertise to solve real-world industry problems. You could be too with a funded doctoral internship in Mumbai or Medellín. There are still places remaining (NZ citizens and permanent residents only). -
Apply now for a 2019 graduate teaching assistant opportunity
01 January 2019The Faculty of Science invites expressions of interest from postgraduate students for Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) positions in 2019.
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Public lecture | Seeing is Believing? Media Integrity in a Post-Truth World Event as iCalendar
25 March 2019, 6pmThe emergence of “fake news” along with sophisticated techniques using machine learning to create realistic looking media such as Deep Fakes, has led to a resurgent interest in digital media forensics. In this talk, Professor Nasir Memon will broadly discuss how media has traditionally been generated and detected. -
Ihaka Lecture Series | Three | Algorithmic fairness: Examples from predictive models for criminal justice Event as iCalendar
27 March 2019, 6:30pmIn the third of the 2019 Ihaka lecture series, Dr Kristian Lum will demonstrate how – if considerations of fairness and bias are not explicitly accounted for – predictive models could perpetuate and, under some circumstances, amplify undesirable historical biases encoded in the data. -
Ihaka Lecture Series | Four | Statistical learning and sparsity Event as iCalendar
03 April 2019, 6:30pmIn the last of the 2019 Ihaka lecture series, Professor Robert Tibshirani will review the lasso method for high dimensional supervised learning and discuss some new developments in the area. he will also describe some applications of these methods to his own collaborative work. -
Inaugural lecture | Reinventing reinforcement Event as iCalendar
03 April 2019, 6:15pmProfessor Douglas Elliffe from the School of Psychology will present his recent research that suggests reinforcement signals future successful behaviour, as well as some thoughts about the place of teaching and leadership in an academic's career.
