Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: One year
Health psychology is a rapidly growing field that applies psychology to promote health, understand illness, and improve healthcare systems.
Accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), our course is designed in collaboration with leading researchers and practitioners, ensuring high-quality content and real-world relevance. You'll explore how psychology can be applied to health and illness, with a focus on modern healthcare systems. You will also receive training in quantitative and qualitative research methods so that you are able to evaluate, plan and conduct research.
The course emphasises transferable skills for global careers and enhances your understanding of ethics and reflective practice to boost your employability in health and social care. Graduates with a BPS-accredited psychology degree can progress to stage two training in Health Psychology, leading to registration as a practitioner psychologist.
All academic staff are research-active, with work published in top journals like Social Science and Medicine, Psychology and Health, and Journal of Health Psychology.
Applicants are usually expected to possess (or be predicted to obtain) a
2:2 award or higher from a BPS-accredited psychology course.
We will consider applications from students with a non-psychology
undergraduate degrees who possess a 2:1 or above and can demonstrate
significant experience in a health context and/or knowledge of health
practices, policies and systems.
The Health Psychology course is designed to deliver a range of transferable skills and enhance your employability across a range of health and social care careers. Health psychology is an expanding area of global employment, with opportunities for graduates in hospitals, universities and community-based and local authority organisations.
Successful graduates can also progress on to doctoral study, including stage two training in Health Psychology, PhD or training to become a psychological well-being practitioner. There are also opportunities in the field of public health (in areas such as smoking cessation, weight management, safer-sex promotion). A full day of annual employability and enhancement events are held in Spring each year to provide more insight into career opportunities.
Block 1: Theories and Perspectives in Health Psychology (15 credits)
Block 2: Critical and International Perspectives on Health Psychology (15 credits)
Block 3: Promoting Health, Managing Illness (30 credits)
Block 4: Mind, Body, Food and Health (30 credits)
Block 5 and 6: Advanced Applied Psychology Dissertation (60 credits)
Research Methods for Applied Psychologists (15 credits)
Applied Statistics in Health Psychology (15 credits)
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