Psychology and counselling
Understand the human mind
Short courses and training
Introducing a range of theories, skills and techniques to help you understand the human mind and its functions, and to gain an appreciation of how we think, both collectively and as individuals. There are options to progress your studies to postgraduate study.
Many of our short courses, including flexible online courses, weekly classes (both in Oxford and online) and some summer schools, can be studied for credit, which means they can count towards a recognised qualification such as our Undergraduate Certificate of Higher Education.
Postgraduate programmes
Upcoming courses
Online - live • Short courses
Who am I? Why am I this way? Why do I make certain choices? Can I change? This online day school presents the main psychological theories of personality and explains how psychologists measure it.
- Thu 29 May 2025
- 10:00am – 5:00pm
Online - live • Short courses
We will take a brief look at the workings of the brain, and how psychologists describe the functions of attention, perception and memory. Explore how these processes can work to fool us, and what we have learned from dysfunction.
- Thu 05 Jun 2025 – 06 Jun 2025
- 2:00 – 5:00pm
Online - live • Short courses
Positive Psychology offers a direct approach to help people create strategies towards wellbeing. Changing our interpretation of the world can help us feel happier, healthier, more positive, and become more resilient. Learn more at this online workshop.
- Thu 12 Jun 2025 – 13 Jun 2025
- 10:00am – 1:00pm
Online - live • Short courses
An online day school presenting experimental and theoretical information for clinical and experimental psychologists, therapists, counsellors, psychiatrists and other clinicians, taking as a starting point that brain and mind are linked and overlapping.
- Thu 19 Jun 2025
- 10:00am – 5:00pm
In-person day/weekend • Short courses
We will take a brief look at the workings of the brain, and how psychologists describe the functions of attention, perception and memory. Explore how these processes can work to fool us, and what we have learned from dysfunction.
- Fri 27 Jun 2025
- 10:00am – 5:00pm
Summer schools • Short courses
Dive into psychological functions such as memory and forgetting, learned behaviour and its consequences, and personality and social behaviour. You can expect to learn a little about yourself, and quite a lot about human behaviour.
- Sun 06 Jul 2025 – 12 Jul 2025
Further study
Part-time postgraduate programmes and professional development courses.
Master's Programme in Psychodynamic Studies
Part-time master's programme providing training in psychodynamic counselling, including academic study and research.