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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Beyond</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[For a long time, this particular article only said "I'll keep you posted... :)". I think that I'm now in a position to make that posting!
Many of the "successful academic parapsychologists" (i.e., those who get paid!) that I know were able to get jobs in academia by not talking too much about parapsychology. They usually got their first positions by demonstrating other skills that they obtained during their Ph.Ds, such as expertise in research methods and statistics, or cognitive psychology,...]]></description>
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         <title>Undergraduate Study</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[One of the best ways to gain experience in parapsychology (particularly in order to see if it is the career for you)  is to take it as an undergraduate degree option. You may experience some difficulty in finding parapsychology as an undergraduate option is because, (a) relatively few universities teach/research parapsychology, and (b) no university offers "parapsychology" as an undergraduate degree, only as a module within a psychology degree. 

Although  this may seems odd, it actually makes...]]></description>
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         <title>Before Going to University</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[I regularly get asked by very keen students in their early teens if there are particular subjects that they can study at school in order to help them to become a parapsychologist. As I contacted the late, great Professor Bob Morris when I was 15 to find out the same thing, I can  fully understand and sympathise with what they are going through!
What I would advise students to do at this stage is to concentrate on subjects that can help get you onto a psychology degree. Fortunately, most...]]></description>
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         <title>Postgraduate Study</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Stage two of the process is often an M.Sc in Psychology (1-2 yrs). This hasn't always been in case, but it is becoming something that more and more students are doing as it helps to prepare you for a PhD. Again, it is useful, but not essential, to have a parapsychological component to this. This can involve doing an MSc by Research in Psychology (as I did), or an MSc in  Research Methods can be equally useful. Alternatively there are a  couple of new MSc's in Parapsychology (Coventry ...]]></description>
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         <title>General Advice</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The best way to get an idea of what parapsychology is to talk to parapsychologists, read academic research, and to attempt to get work experience with a parapsychologist. I would be cautious of approaching people who refer to themselves as "parapsychologists", but who have no academic credentials to substantiate this claim. This can happen quite a lot on the internet.

Parapsychology is only a very small field with a handful of research centres in the United Kingdom. It is my impression that...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Introduction</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[I have had a lot of e-mails over the years asking me, essentially, how you become a parapsychologist. I decided to write this short guide on my understanding of the process so that individuals can have more information on the topic and they can then make the best decision for them.
I should initially point out two issues for readers. Firstly, I am defining a "parapsychologist" in this instance as an individual who is employed by a university to study a topic that can be defined as...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Summary</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Generally, in order to become a "professional, academic parapsychologist" it is necessary to have both undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications, usually in psychology. This is usually because you would be pursuing an academic career within a department at a University.
This process commonly follows two to three stages:

    A Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) degree, usually in psychology (3-4 years).
    A Masters of Science (M.Sc) degree, again usually in some area of psychology (1-2 years)....]]></description>
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