The focus of this programme is on reading skills and metacognitive competence, effects of higher education, communication in health-care systems and didactical aspects of traffic behaviour. This field of research is directed towards adult education and social change, popular education and popular movements, informal education and learning, comparative adult education and library and information-science research. The majority of this group have psychotherapy as their primary field of interest. Fields relating to diagnostic, developmental and forensic issues are also in the focus of interest. Basic and applied cognitive research in the communicative disability domain predominate.
Applications also involve neuropsychological, man-machine and educational psychology problems.
The area of developmental research focuses on infancy, parent-child dynamics, adolescence and identity development. This group concentrates on research dealing with the dynamics in small and large groups in authentic contexts. The focus of the research is placed on existing social systems. Sociology Studies and research at the Department of Sociology are centred around the reality of everyday life in contrast with the organisational and structural reality that society s various institutions represent. Departmental research takes a specific look into the state of being and human behaviour that society attempts to control and regulate.