The title of the department is
Counselling Psychotherapy and Applied
Social Sciences so it's very broad
potentially but most of our students
come and do something something
specifically related to counselling and
psychotherapy for example or that draws
from psych counseling and psychotherapy
theory and ideas to look at a broader
social issue and others come and do some
other kind of specialism that we have
within the department such as to do with
the care for people in older age or
public health policy we have a very
distinctive research approach which is
not necessarily unique but which is
unusual in its emphasis on qualitative
close experience near close-up
experience near research so that I think
that would be I think that's one of the
main reasons why students do come and
study with us with their doctoral degree
I'm studying a counseling and
psychotherapy and more specifically I am
interested in understanding identity and
relationships romantic and erotic
relationships Edinburgh University has a
very good network really really focused
on the students performance and
well-being
within the department, we try to foster an active and lively research community by holding writing
retreats for example and groups that to
work on writing for publication and we
have a seminar series that we encourage
our students to attend as well so in
2014 I went I travelled to New Zealand
to present my work and I met fantastic
people there and created some networks
it was it was fantastic I never imagined
that I will be traveling to to New
Zealand and all thanks to the University
