Psychology
9.053.00.00 Psychology
Qualification awarded: Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology
Entry year: 2024
Mode of study: full
Program duration: 4 years
Institute: Department of Doctoral and Post-graduate studies
Number of credits: 43 ECTS credits
Level of qualification according to the National Qualification Framework and the European Qualifications Framework: NQF Level 8 (Third cycle of QF-EHEA / EQF Level 8)
Field(s) of study: Social and Behavioural Sciences
Specific admission requirements: Entrance exam in specialty 053 "Psychology"
Specific arrangements for recognition of prior learning: Provided that the previous level was obtained in another country, nostrification is required, which is carried out by Lviv Polytechnic.
Qualification requirements and regulations, including graduation requirements: The dissertation should solve a complex problem in psychology or related disciplines, rethink existing and create new knowledge and professional practices. The dissertation should not contain academic plagiarism, falsification, fabrication
Characteristics of the educational program: The educational and scientific program is aimed at ensuring the formation of integral, general and special-professional competencies of applicants for the scientific degree "Doctor of Philosophy", necessary for the formation of highly qualified, competitive teachers-researchers, integrated into the domestic and international academic community, capable of generating new ideas, developing complex scientific projects and programs, effectively solving current problems in the fields of organizational psychology and psychological well-being of personnel, facilitating personal development and professional self-realization, and protecting mental health, taking into account the principle of valeological expediency in the process of conducting fundamental, experimental-search and practice-oriented scientific research in the field of knowledge 05 Social and Behavioral Sciences in the specialty 053 Psychology, as well as scientific and pedagogical innovative activities in higher education institutions.
Програмні результати навчання: PLO 1. To have advanced conceptual and methodological knowledge of the problem chosen for research in the field of psychology / on the verge of subject areas, as well as research skills sufficient to conduct scientific and applied research at the level of world achievements in psychology.
PLO 2. To understand the general principles and methods of psychology, as well as the methodology of scientific research, to apply them in their own research in psychology and in teaching practice.
PLO 3. Identify, systematise, solve, critically comprehend and predict significant psychological problems, formulate and test hypotheses, identify factors and trends in the functioning and development of individuals, groups and organisations at different levels of psychological research.
PLO 4. To plan and carry out experimental and/or theoretical research in psychology and related interdisciplinary areas in compliance with professional and academic ethics.
PLO 5. Apply modern tools and technologies for searching, processing and analysing information, statistical methods of data analysis, specialised databases and information systems, develop innovative research methods in the field of psychology, and test their effectiveness.
PLO 6. To critically and systematically evaluate the results of own research work and the results of other researchers in the context of the whole range of modern knowledge on the problem under study, to determine the prospects for further research.
PLO 7. To develop and implement scientific and/or innovative projects in the field of psychology that make it possible to rethink the existing and create new holistic knowledge and/or professional practice and solve significant scientific and applied problems of psychology, taking into account social, economic, ethical and legal aspects.
PLO 8. Identify professional opportunities and tasks for professional development and professional mobility.
PLO 9. To freely present and discuss with specialists and non-specialists the results of research, scientific and applied problems of psychology in the state and foreign languages, to prepare research results in the form of scientific publications.
PLO 10. To organise and carry out the educational process in the field of psychology, its scientific, educational, methodological and regulatory support, to apply effective methods of teaching disciplines.
Academic mobility: National and international credit mobility
Work placement(s): The program provides 3 ECTS credits - pedagogical practice
Programme director: Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Professor Ihor Mykhailovych Halian
Occupational profiles of graduates: Employment as scientific and scientific-pedagogical workers in scientific institutions and higher education institutions, highly qualified employees in research institutions and organizations, scientific consultants in government bodies, institutions and organizations.
Other program features: The uniqueness of the educational and scientific program "Psychology" at the NU "Lviv Polytechnic" lies in integration of the epistemological heritage of psychological science with the achievements of modern psychology and contribution of Ukrainian psychology to these achievements, stimulating original psychological research of the fundamental spectrum in the areas of:
1) organizational psychology and the culture of interpersonal relationships, leadership, psychological well-being of personnel and prevention of mobbing, ageism and other destructive phenomena;
2) axiological, ethnocultural and deotological principles of individual life in the era of Metamodernity, taking into account global, national and regional contexts;
3) protection of mental health, post-traumatic recovery and mobilization of personal resources of resilience.
In recent years, the University has become a center for training specialists in the field of specialty 053 Psychology, covering the field of technical and humanitarian education, attracting experienced highly qualified scientists and practicing psychologists who direct the scientific research of applicants to the study of relevant interdisciplinary problems of modernity, carried out within the framework of scientific projects of the University, and the implementation of scientific research results in the practice of the psychological service of the University, state and private institutions; contribute to the formation of competencies of a teacher of a higher education institution in applicants based on the use of innovative educational technologies. Within the framework of the educational and scientific program, academic mobility and cooperation in the field of scientific research with scientific institutions, higher education institutions of Ukraine, as well as abroad, which expresses European integration processes in the system of training applicants of the third level of higher education and meets the goals of sustainable development.