About us
Welcome to Psych Soc! We're an academic society here to help connect you to all things psych here at Royal Holloway! We'll have talks from the best in the business, collaborate with department, and host socials to help you make friends and connect with other psych-loving students!
We have 4 main aims for this year:
1. Create a structured and organised society that will once again hold its place as one of the top societies at Royal Holloway.
2. Provide exclusive opportunities for members to further their academic careers.
3. Create a safe space for students to communicate openly, make friends, and help support them on their student journeys.
4. Create a balance - University work is tough, so we want to create a space where both psych and non-psych students can chill, and fall in love with the subject again.
Please be in contact with us with ideas for events and programmes which you may be of interest to you.
Membership
There is a single-tier system, so all memberships cost the same and will have access to the same events. Your membership fee contributes towards planning and executing events, to ensure that members are having the best time possible.
Events and Activities
This year, we'll be hosting a balance of both social and academic events. Please feel free to show up to any and all of the events we'll be running.
A few times a term we will host a 2 hour study session to help support students, you can pop in for 5 minutes or stay for the whole thing! This is the time that students can come in and have a dedicated room to study with friends, in silence or even ask the commitee any academic questions you may have! We will also be running socials to help people get to know each other and campus, and working closely with the department on events as well.
Some examples of academic-oriented events include:
- Academic talks both inside and outside of Holloway
- Networking events
- Events geared towards learning 'real life skills'
- Study Workshops
- Departmental duo events
Some examples of non-academic events:
- Presentation nights where members come with pre-planned topics, or improvise a psychology-themed presentation from randomised topics.
- Events centered around parts of psychology you always wanted to explore! E.g relationship psychology – ‘did that movie couple actually have problems or just bad communication?’
- Mental health focused events including walk-and-talks, moodboarding and anything you'd love to do to destress!!
Contact Us
Our email: psychology@royalholloway.su.
Our Instagram page: rhulpsychology - this is our main way of communicating with our members about upcoming events and updates. We have some great stuff planned this year so watch this space!
We look forward to meeting you soon!
The Psych Soc