Immerse yourself in the Oxford Psychology Summer School, exploring the brain, mind, and behaviour through evidence-based research.
Immerse yourself in the Oxford Psychology Summer School, exploring the brain, mind, and behaviour through evidence-based research. Design and analyse your own experiments, investigate memory, identity, development, and mental health, and examine both classic and cutting-edge studies. Learn how childhood experiences shape adulthood, evaluate data, debunk media myths, and network with experts, gaining a comprehensive understanding of experimental psychology and its real-world applications.
Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of experimental psychology and gain expertise on the human mind at the Oxford Psychology Summer School. Delve into various aspects of the mind, including psychological disorders and the impact of childhood attachments on the future. Through designing your own investigations, networking with experts, and exploring the ethics of human psychology experiments, you’ll develop a comprehensive understanding of this field.
You will be studying the brain, mind and behaviour, and in doing so you will find out all sorts of things about yourself and the social world around you, such as how you remember events and faces, how your brain works, how what happened to you as a child affects you now – even how you measure your own personality! You’ll find out the fascinating ways in which people interact and for how you yourself view the world. Dive into intriguing social topics, like why people believe in fake news and, and future-focused learning, including how we can help people with mental health problems. Every facet of this subject will focus on scientific, evidence based research.
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Our top-rated summer school in Oxford, Oxford Royale offers a premium academic and cultural summer experience at historic colleges of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, as well as in London and Yale in the USA.
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Apply NowOur students will be staying in actual university accommodation. Most of our accommodation sites offer a mix of single and twin bedrooms. Some campuses have en-suite bedrooms while others have bathroom facilities shared between a small group of same-sex students. In some campuses, students have the option to pay our ‘En-suite Reservation Fee’, which entitles students to an en-suite room should one be available at their campus. Contact our Admissions Team for more information. Sharing your room with fellow students is a great way of getting to know people and making friends. You can also request to share a room with someone you know studying the same course as you, though this is not guaranteed and must be done in advance of the course.
In the UK students will receive 20 hours of teaching per week, and outside of classes will enjoy a number of enrichment activities. In the USA, our students will have up to 17.5 of teaching hours per week, alongside extracurricular enrichment activities.
Our English language requirements are as follows: B1 for Learn English programmes C1 or IELTS level 6.5 or higher for all academic programmes Students who have studied at an English speaking school for two or more years are exempt from English requirements. If you feel you need advice on whether you can attend with you english level, please feel free to contact our Admissions team.
Students will be supervised at all times on campus, with a Programme Director leading a team of qualified and carefully selected teachers, junior deans and counsellors. Student safety is our number one priority, and you can find out more here: https://www.oxford-royale.com/student-welfare
Oxford Royale provides airport transfers for all of our campuses at an additional price. You can book now through a member of our sales team, or find out more here: https://www.oxford-royale.com/transfer-service
Students are responsible for ensuring they are comprehensively insured for their course. You can find out more here: https://www.oxford-royale.com/about/useful-information/insurance
Our students will receive their Oxford Royale graduation certificate at the end of their course, and will also receive a full, personal report on their academic achievement.
You can go online and check your visa requirements by visiting the useful Check if you need a UK visa tool from the UK government. Students from European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries do not currently require a visa to enter the UK to attend our academic or English language courses. We recommend that students keep checking this page - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/visiting-the-uk-as-an-eu-eea-or-swiss-citizen - for further information and updates. Oxford Royale Academy recommends that registered students who require a visa to enter the UK apply for a Standard Visitor visa (details here), which authorises students to attend a short course of study (including English language programmes) in the UK. Students attending our Summer Schools in the USA may be able to enter the United States on the Visa Waiver programme. You can find out whether you qualify for this by using the online Visa Wizard on the US Travel website – select the ‘study or exchange’, then ‘recreational program’ options. You will not require a student visa, but a standard visitor visa.
