Psychology
Listen first. Then write what you heard.
You listen to real people, take careful notes and make sense of what they tell you. A supervisor reads your write-ups and tells you what you missed.
The real briefs
Three briefs from past and partner work.
Examples, written the way you’d receive them. Your cohort’s briefs come from [PARTNER TYPES].
Interview synthesis
Sit in on five interviews, take notes, and write up the patterns you heard, with quotes to back them.
Research summary
Summarize what the research says on one question, for staff who don’t have time to read it.
Survey draft and pilot
Write a short survey, pilot it with three people, and fix whatever confused them.
This isn’t clinical work. You won’t give advice or therapy. You listen, observe and write up.
What the assignment is like
Step 2 of applying.
A sample outline. The real brief arrives by email after you apply.
- The brief[BRIEF]
- You send backNotes from a short recorded conversation and a one-page summary of what you heard.
- Time[X] days, about 2–3 hours of work
- FormatPDF, DOCX or a link
- How it’s readAgainst a short rubric: clarity, effort and honesty. People make the close calls.
Note · [BRIEF] placeholders. Nancy writes the real briefs.
Who it suits
Be honest with yourself here.
It suits you if
- You notice what people don’t say.
- You write things down as they were, not as you wish they were.
- You’re comfortable with silence in a conversation.
It probably doesn’t if
- You want to counsel people. This isn’t clinical work.
- Long, careful notes bore you.
- You’d rather work with numbers than with people.
What you’ll find out in this track
The questions Psychology answers about you.
How well you really listen
Your notes against the recording will tell you.
How accurate your notes are
What you caught, what you changed and what you missed.
Whether you see patterns or invent them
A supervisor checks every claim against the evidence.
How you hold someone else’s hard story
With care, and without making it about you.