Welcome from the Program Director

We have a dynamite Developmental Psychology Program at UAB and welcome your interest in it. Our faculty is truly outstanding and it is well known that the professors here have impact in their areas of expertise both nationally and internationally. They conduct research that federal agencies are funding with an excess of $10 million dollars. This creates an exciting environment for your graduate training.

The facilities are excellent in the Department of Psychology and at the several research centers that play important roles in our program. Our students obtain interdisciplinary training through collaboration with these centers and other departments at UAB.

This is a life span developmental psychology program, meaning you learn about human behavior throughout life. However, you focus on an area of your interest that matches with the interest of a faculty mentor in developing your expertise and research program. In most respects, our program is individualized to meet your goals.

We have provided financial support to all our students who have desired such, in the form of fellowships and assistantships. You are expected to be a full-time student here. We train students to become career scientists. Our graduates have taken positions as professors in universities and colleges, and scientific program directors in public and private agencies. We do not provide any clinical training. If your interest is in clinical practice, for example with children, our program is not for you.

We invite you to learn more about our program by checking the links to the right. Please contact me if you have questions about the program. You can also directly contact faculty members whose research intrigues you. We all look forward to hearing from you.

Dr. Karlene K. Ball,
Professor and Director
Developmental Psychology Doctoral Program
Email: devpsy@uab.edu
Phone: (205) 934-1610

Program Assistant: Sandra Miller
Phone: (205) 934-2528