College of Arts and Social Science Vision Statement

Our aim is to educate, motivate and inspire by example; to nurture and unleash creative talent; through our distinctive mix of disciplines and in our approaches to teaching and learning and rigorous scientific enquiry, and our focus on the professions and practitioner training, to act as a beacon which will inform, illuminate and enhance lives and society, and provide tomorrow's leaders, in Scotland, the UK and the wider world.

The mission of the University is to provide education of the highest quality, coupled with a leading contribution to the advancement of knowledge. We aim to excel in teaching, in scholarship, and in pure and applied research. We aim to produce outstanding psychologists, educated as scientists in a modern, exciting degree structure, and to contribute to knowledge through furthering our understanding of human experimental psychology.