Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences

Since its inception, Counselling and Psychotherapy has emerged as a premier institution in Scotland for postgraduate education, training, and research in Counselling Studies.

The discipline has played a pivotal role in advancing counselling as a professional endeavor, whilst also developing a robust research programme to help shape the future of counselling practice. We have a longstanding commitment to original empirical and theoretical research that engages critically with the practices of counselling and psychotherapy, and we are especially keen to encourage research concerned with the interface between counselling, psychotherapy and social, cultural and political life, and research that draws directly on practitioners’ own therapeutic work.

Our Programmes

Our Research

Edinburgh Centre for Research on the Experience of Dementia

ECRED are an interdisciplinary group of dementia researchers, people with dementia, dementia practitioners and representatives from a range of dementia organisations who are interested in exploring and developing theories, methods and impact around the experience of living with dementia.

ECRED

Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry

The Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry (CCRI) fosters innovative qualitative research that places the relational at its heart. Key to the vision for the Centre is that it develops the ‘creative-relational’ as a dynamic conceptual frame for vibrant, incisive research. CCRI makes space for and develops capacity for debate, thinking and activity that argues for and contributes to the future of such interdisciplinary research, fostering collaborations and conversations within the University of Edinburgh, nationally and internationally.

CCRI