Welcome to Psychology

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Welcome to Psychology

• Dr Rhiannon Turner
• Lecturer in Social Psychology, and Level 1
  Coordinator

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Overview

• Whos who in the Institute of Psychological
  Sciences
• Induction Events
• What you will be taught in your first year at
  Leeds
• Where to get more information about psychology at
  Leeds
• What we expect from youand what you should
  expect from us
• Some schemes you might want to get involved in
• http//www.psyc.leeds.ac.uk/ugrads/newlevel1/index
  .htm

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Key People in the Institute of Psychological
Sciences

• Head of Institute
• Professor Martin Conway

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Key People in the Institute of Psychological
Sciences

• Director of Learning and Teaching
• Dr Catriona Morrison
• Deputy Director of Teaching and Learning
• Dr Pam Blundell

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People you will need to know

• Your Year 1 Team
• Dr Rhiannon Turner, Year 1 Coordinator
• Dr Ed Sutherland, Year 1 Coordinator
• Alison Tindall, Year 1 Secretary

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People you will need to know

• What the year coordinators do
• We are responsible for First year issues
• Let you know about any issues that affect the
  whole year (i.e., via email, by holding meetings
  like this one)
• Represent 1st year students in exam board
  meetings, and contact students who need to do
  re-sits after the exams
• Pastoral support let us (or your personal
  tutor) know if you have any problems
• Sit on special cases committee

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People you will need to know

• For the following, you should contact the year
  secretary, Alison Tindall (G.02)
• If you are ill or have personal problems that are
  affecting your studies
• Late Submission form (for late work)
• Special circumstances form (for absence from
  exams)
• If you are unhappy with the course and want to
  leave the university, or transfer to a different
  course (If you decide this during freshers week,
  let Alison know right away)
• General procedural questions
• Also, if you dont know who the right person is
  to talk to, go to Alison and she will point you
  in the right direction!

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People you will need to know

• Your Personal Tutor
• You will each have a personal tutor, who will be
  a member of lecturing staff
• A list of tutors and tutees is now on the 1st
  year notice board
• What do they do?
• Provide you with academic feedback and personal
  support
• 4 tutorials in Semester 1, 2 tutorials in
  Semester 2 in Year 1
• Meeting at least once in every semester in Years
  2 and 3
• You should also feel free to arrange additional
  meetings with your tutor if you need help,
  advice, or support

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People you will need to know

• Your first tutorial
• Your tutorial will most likely be either this
  afternoon or tomorrow
• A welcome meeting no need to prepare
  anything!
• Check the Year 1 notice board for when your tutor
  will be meeting you and where straight after this
  meeting (it may be as soon as 1.30pm today)

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People you will need to know

• Lecturing Staff
• Lectures and practicals will be taught by
  psychologists and neuroscientists who work in the
  department
• 7 Professors
• 14 Senior Lecturers
• 19 Lecturers
• Have a look at the departmental webpage for who
  we are and what we do
• www.psyc.leeds.ac.uk/people/

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People you will need to know

• What does being a lecturer involve?
• Research We are a research active department
  with an international reputation, investigating
  topics including social, health, cognitive and
  biological psychology, and neuroscience
• Teaching Most members of staff run 2 or 3
  modules across the undergraduate and masters
  degree programs, plus practicals and tutorials
• Admin We each have an administrative job whereby
  we help to run the department (i.e., year
  coordinator, disability officer, ethics
  committee, admissions, library rep)

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People you will need to know

• How to get the best out of your lecturers
• Make use of office hours / email to make an
  appointment
• Arrive at appointments on time ( let us know if
  you cant)
• Get involved in our research
• Ask us about it
• Volunteer as a research assistant
• Volunteer as a participant

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Research Participant Pool

• Students are required to participate in a number
  of experiments in their first year and second
  year
• Why?
• Good way for you to learn about how psychology
  studies are conducted
• Helps to support research in the department
• You can use the participant pool yourself in your
  final year

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Peer mentoring

• Ed Sutherland and Jackie McSorley
• Meeting about the peer mentoring scheme to be
  held this Wednesday, 11am, Speakman Lecture
  Theatre, Clothworkers Centre
• Peer mentoring Event, Thursday 5pm, Room 1.01,
  Charles Thackrah Building

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Induction timetable
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Teaching Semester One

• Weeks 1-5
• Psychology at Leeds - Professor Martin Conway
• Lectures (2 per week)
• Weeks 6-10
• Developmental Psychology - Dr Amanda Waterman
• Lectures (2 per week)
• Social Psychology - Dr Russell Hutter
• Lectures (2 per week)
• Weeks 1-11
• Research Skills 1- Dr Russell Hutter Dr Jeff
  Delvenne
• Lectures (1 per week) Practicals (1 per
  fortnight) Seminars (1 per fortnight)
• Professional Skills 1 Dr Rhiannon Turner
• Lectures (Weeks 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9) Practicals
  (Weeks 1, 3, 7, and 10)
• Professional Skills tutorials (Weeks 0, 4, 7, and
  10)

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Teaching Semester One

• Research Skills 1 Important information
• You will be split into 2 groups for all of your
  practicals
• You will also be further split into smaller
  demonstrator groups (which will be taught be
  postgraduate teaching assistants)
• Details of which practical group and which
  demonstrator group you are in will be on the Year
  1 notice board hopefully by the end of this week,
  but if not, by your first lecture next Monday
• Alison Tindall will email you when this
  information is available
• You will also be given a handout in your first
  Research Skills 1 lecture that gives details

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Teaching Semester One

• Professional Skills 1 Important information
• You will be split into 2 groups for all of your
  practicals (which occur in Weeks 1, 3, 7, and 10)
• One group will run from 10am-11.30am, and the
  other from 11.30-1pm on Tuesdays
• Check which group you are in on the Year 1 notice
  board before your first practical next Tuesday!
• Lectures for all first years will be at 9am on
  Tuesdays (Weeks 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10)
• Any question? Drop me an email
  r.n.turner_at_leeds.ac.uk

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Teaching Semester Two

• Weeks 1-5
• Biological Psychology Dr Amanda Harrison
• Lectures (2 per week)
• Weeks 6-10
• Cognitive Psychology - Dr Jelena Havelka
• Lectures (2 per week)
• Perception - Dr Denis McKeown
• Lectures (2 per week)
• Weeks 1-11
• Research Skills 2- Dr Andy Prestwich Dr Pam
  Blundell
• Lectures (1 per week) Practicals (1 per
  fortnight) Seminars (1 per fortnight)
• Professional Skills 2 Dr Melanie Burke
• Lectures (Weeks 2, 10) Practicals (Weeks 1, 3-9)
• Professional Skills tutorials (Weeks 2, 6)

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Online coursework submission

• Research Skills and Professional Skills involve a
  significant coursework component, which will need
  to be submitted online
• Essays / practical reports
• Multiple choice tests
• You will receive instructions on how to submit
  online in the next couple of weeks
• Deadlines for all coursework are provided in the
  student handbook
• It is your responsibility to make sure you submit
  coursework on time!

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Course texts

• Lecturers for each module will tell you what
  their recommended readings are
• Generic text that you might find useful across
  all psychology modules, which will be available
  from Blackwells opposite the Parkinson Building
  on campus and the Leeds Union bookshop
• Martin, G. N., Carlson, N. R., Buskist, W.
  (2007). Psychology. Pearson Education. 35.99

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Essential resources

• Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
• https//vlebb.leeds.ac.uk/
• Log in using username and password
• Personalized for you provides you with access
  to all your modules and related handouts, lecture
  notes, reading lists, access to online MCQs
• To do an online tutorial to familiarise yourself
  with the VLE http//www.leeds.ac.uk/vle/students/
  guides/intro.htm

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Essential resources

• Student handbook
• Go to http//www.psyc.leeds.ac.uk, select
  Current students from the menu, and you should
  find a link to the handbook on this page
• AND should be available soon via the VLE- in
  addition to all your modules, you should have a
  link called Psychology Students which contains
  the handbook
• Contact details and information about members of
  staff
• How to change modules / courses
• Marking criteria
• Exam procedures
• Module details
• Deadlines for coursework assessments
• Information on the year abroad scheme
• Before emailing secretaries or academics for
  info, check first that the information is not
  here !

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Other sources of info

• Psychology institute webpage www.psyc.leeds.ac.uk
  - student pages click link on blue bar on
  left of page
• Induction website www.psyc.leeds.ac.uk/ugrads/new
  level1
• Information screens in institute foyer
• Keep your eye on the Year 1 Noticeboards

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Other sources of info

• The Leeds for Life website
• You can login to your own personal Leeds for
  Life page via the university portal
• You can access your grade transcripts
• You can log information regarding academic issues
  / well-being / skills development which your
  personal tutor can then view
• It also provides info on opportunities for skills
  development, e.g., volunteering, studying
  abroad, part-time work, clubs / societies
• Advice and help on life-skills, e.g., analytic
  and communication skills, confidence, leadership,
  literacy, research skills
• Provides access to information on developing your
  CV
• Check your university email account
  regularly

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We expect you to...

• Go to your lectures, practicals, and tutorials
  (failure to attend without good reason will go on
  record)
• Arrive on time or as near as is humanly possible
• To prepare appropriately for classes
• To engage in reading beyond the information given
  in lectures - you will not be given everything.
  You must learn to find information for yourselves
  
• Check when deadlines are (from the course
  handbook), and hand in course work on time
• Take responsibility for your degree!

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What you should expect from us

• Great teaching in a supportive environment!
• If we dont deliver
• Raise issues through Staff Student Forum
• Go and see your personal tutor
• Year Coordinator
• Head of Institute
• This is all part of the partnership agreement
  which lays out what students and staff should
  expect from one another www.leeds.ac.uk/aqst/doc
  uments/partnershipagreement.doc

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Get involved!

• Student-Staff Forum
• Made up of members of staff and student
  representatives from each year
• Discusses and responds to matters raised by
  students or staff in relation to the degree
  programme
• Good for your CV too
• Convened by Dr. Pam Blundell and meets twice per
  semester
• If you are interested in being a Year 1
  Representative, please contact Pam via email -
  p.blundell_at_leeds.ac.uk

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Study Abroad Opportunities

• You have the option of spending your third year
  abroad studying at an overseas university (and
  then completing your final year as a 4th year
  on your return.
• 9th October (Room 1.23) Jelena Havelka, year
  abroad tutor, will be giving a talk on study
  abroad opportunities and the application process
• 4th November (Parkinson Building) Study Abroad
  fair run by Study Abroad office

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• Thanks for listeningand we hope you have a
  fantastic time here!
• If you havent already, please make sure you sign
  the sheets at the front of the lecture theatre
  before you leave
• Any questions?