Formålet med ph.d.-uddannelsen er både at uddanne forskere, men også at imødekomme det praktiske livs behov for højt kvalificerede psykologer. Ph.d.-uddannelsen ved Psykologisk Institut tilbyder uddannelse inden for områderne:
- Studies in organizational participation and corporation
- Applied basic research in memory and cognition
- Health psychology
- Man-Technology interaction
- Psychotherapy research
- Psycho-traumatology
- Development of qualitative methodology
- Apprenticeship learning
- Anthropological psychology
- Neuropsychology
- Applied social psychology with special attention towards children and adolescent