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They probably mean a grant-funded study group of some sort, under the psychology department.

Why don't you find out and report back. My experience with the folks in Charlottesville is that they don't bother with anything frivolous.

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[Tax-chick]

Dr. Jim Tucker: Assistant Professor: Division of Personality Studies, Department of Psychiatric Medicine, University of Virginia Health System. 1999 - Present.

"Division of Personality Studies" does the "past-life" evaluations, and one can certainly see how that is relevant to Psychiatry.

Although a British source couldn't be expected to sort out the details, "University of Virginia Health System" is a separate entity from "University of Virginia" as a educational institution. Nonetheless, iirc, UVa is not immune from the "Goofball Studies" trend that afflicts most large public universities, however good their programs are in the aggregate.