General Research Methodology: Design, Analysis and Report

Third-cycle level | 15.0 credits | Course code: PX33003
HT 2025
Study period: 2025-08-19 - 2025-12-19
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: The course is given in Swedish but can be given in English if necessary
Application period: 2025-04-08 - 2025-04-14
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Course description

The course includes four subcourses and covers central aspects of the research process, as well as principles and questions related to quality assessment, research planning, problem formulation, statistical data analysis, presentation of a research project, and research ethics.

  1. Research and ethics in psychology
  2. Design issues in psychological research (covers central concepts in the research process, and types of research design)
  3. Principles of data analysis (covers the basic principles of statistical data analysis, and also problematizes traditional statistical hypotheses testing)
  4. Literature reviews and meta-analysis (covers different types of research reviews, how they are conducted and reported)

 

Target group

It´s a compulsory course for students admitted to the PhD Programme at the Dept. of Psychology, University of Gotenburg

Requirements and Selection

Entry requirements

The student must be erolled in doctoral studies. 

Selection

PhD student at Department of Psychology

 

Other information

Contact Officer for doctoral studies ann.backlund@psy.gu.se with questions

Course syllabus

PX33003

Reading and reference list

Reading and reference list for the course

Department

Department of Psychology

Subject

Social Science

Type of course

Method course

Keywords

research process, Design, statistics, Literature reviews, meta-analysislysis

CONTACTLinda Hassing

linda.hassing@psy.gu.se