The Faculty of Psychology’s research profile is structured around four core guiding principles:
Research at the Faculty of Psychology reflects the bio-psycho-social nature of humans by
- embracing and further developing natural and social scientific as well as humanities based approaches,
- utilizing a pluralistic spectrum of methods,
- maintaining an interest in relevant developments in adjacent disciplines, and
- establishing a culture of dialogue across disciplinary and methodological boundaries through collaboration among researchers.
This approach contrasts with the majority of German-speaking universities, which primarily emphasize natural scientific perspectives in psychology.
Main research areas at the Department of Psychology at SFU Linz
- Psychology of clinically special populations
- Psychology of education, work and organisation
- Psychology of social and cultural change
Research and teaching
At the Faculty of Psychology, research and teaching are inextricably interwoven. Student teaching is committed to the principles of research-led teaching; teaching research projects introduce students to the main research areas represented at the Faculty. All students are encouraged to become involved in existing interdisciplinary and international cooperation projects and to write their scientific qualification theses under the competent supervision of project staff.