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.
An Auckland cafe "clearly" crossed the line when it referred to a group of women as "Asians" on their customer receipt, according to discrimination researcher, Associate Professor Danny Osborne.
Senior Lecturer Dr Alex Taylor, Director of the Animal Minds Lab gives us 10 minutes of his time to talk cumulative cultural evolution, creative challenges and having low expectations. Read more.
Received an offer of place for 2019? Find out what you need to do before you arrive, what to expect at your Orientation day and where to go for more support. Read 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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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. -
Meet the new Science Scholars director
06 December 2018Dr Rhys Jones of the Department of Statistics has been named director of the innovative Science Scholars programme at the University of Auckland. -
Men with hostile sexist beliefs feel less powerful in relationships
04 December 2018Heterosexual men with hostile sexist attitudes are more likely to think they lack power in a relationship rather than seeing themselves as powerful.
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Ihaka Lecture Series | One | Open source Machine Learning @ Waikato Event as iCalendar
13 March 2019, 6:30pmLaunching our 2019 Ihaka Lecture Series, Professor Bernhard Pfahringer will introduce a number of open-source Machine Learning software suites, reflect on their design decisions and issues, and try to position them in the current international Machine Learning landscape. -
Ihaka Lecture Series | Two | Machine Learning with TensorFlow and R Event as iCalendar
20 March 2019, 6:30pmIn the second lecture of the 2019 Ihaka lecture series, JJ Allaire (CEO of RStudio) will talk about the R interface to TensorFlow, a suite of packages that provide high-level interfaces to both deep learning models (Keras) and standard regression and classification models (Estimators). -
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.
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Apply now for a 2019 graduate teaching assistant opportunity
03 December 2018The Faculty of Science invites expressions of interest from postgraduate students for Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) positions in 2019.
