Postgraduate studies

The MSc in Psychological Research Methods has a strong history as a successful and rewarding course that furthers your knowledge in Psychology. Among the course features are:

• It equips students with the research skills (e.g., statistics, conducting and presenting research studies, qualitative methods) needed for research and professional careers related to psychology.
• An established and extremely successful course with a very good track record of graduates.
• We would be pleased to hear from students who wish to take this MSc either as part of a 1+3 package or on a standalone basis prior to further research, vocational training (for example in clinical psychology) or career advancement.

The MSc in Social Psychology covers

• The presentation and evaluation of social psychological research.
• The principles of of research design and analysis.
• The application of social psychology to social problems (e.g. conflict between groups, decision-making in a legal context).

The MSc in Developmental Psychology takes advantage of a particular strength of the department profile

• The primary aim of this MSc is to provide students with an advanced knowledge of the methods, analytic techniques, theories, and major findings in a range of important sub-areas of developmental psychology.
• Offered since October 2002, building on the department's recent success in establishing the Centre for Research in Human Development.
• Teaching methods include: lectures, interactive discussion sessions, direct practical experience of modelling developmental phenomena, gathering, analysing and presenting developmental data.

The MSc in Developmental Disorders offers a more focused analysis of an important area within developmental psychology.

• The course is designed for graduates who wish to progress to a PhD in clinical, educational, or experimental psychology.
• It is also suited to students who wish to boost their research skills en route to speech and language therapy, or clinical or educational psychology training.
• The course will be attractive to those have already qualified as behavioural therapists, care workers, clinical psychologists or educational psychologists, but wish to enhance their research skills before entering the job market.
• The course should be considered by any students who require additional knowledge about developmental disorders to apply to their work environment.

The MSc in Language Speech and Hearing

• Ideally suited for students who wish to progress to a PhD in child language development, psycholinguistics or psychoacoustics.
• Provides opportunities to boost research skills en route to speech and language therapy, audiology, or clinical or educational psychology training.
• Suitable for students who have already qualified as speech and language therapists or audiologists, or clinical or educational psychologists, but wish to enhance their research skills before entering the job market.
• Valuable for students who require additional knowledge about language, speech or hearing to apply to their work environment.

The MSc in Psychology of Advertising novel MSc is designed to link psychological research skills and knowledge of human behaviour with the application domain of advertising.

• A major feature of the course is that students typically undertake their dissertation research via a placement with a commercial organisation that is involved in developing, using or distributing advertising media and that has advertising research requirements.

The department warmly welcomes applications from suitably qualified candidates to undertake PhD research. We have more details about the departmental PhD programme here

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