Mission
PSİKOMER’s mission is to contribute to the understanding of human experience and social life by supporting research, collaborative learning, and critical thinking in psychology.
The Center recognizes the diversity of human experience and the inequalities that shape these experiences. It opens up for discussion the assumptions underlying psychological knowledge, the experiences it brings into view, and those it leaves out. In this context, it aims to enrich psychology’s questions and areas of debate by building multidisciplinary connections with the health sciences, social sciences, and the arts.
Its scope includes people’s relationships with one another, with other living beings, and with the ecological environment, as well as the attitudes, norms, and social practices that shape these relationships.
By making room for new and critical approaches, the Center invites students and researchers to think and produce knowledge together. It supports the development of psychological knowledge through reciprocal dialogue with society.
Vision
PSİKOMER’s vision is to become a vibrant academic hub that strengthens interaction across different areas of psychology and creates opportunities for new questions and critical approaches to develop. It seeks to create an environment where knowledge produced in diverse social and cultural contexts, voices less often heard in academia, and underrepresented experiences can shape the development of psychological knowledge.
Through its connections with the health sciences, social sciences, and the arts, the Center aims to broaden psychology’s intellectual horizons while remaining attentive to people’s relationships with one another, with other living beings, and with the ecological environment. It embraces ethical responsibility, inclusivity, and sustainability as shared principles guiding its research, education, and practice. It seeks to create an academic environment where students actively participate in producing knowledge, different research and practice traditions develop through mutual learning, and lasting connections are built between the university and society.