Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1-2 Years
Gain a strong grounding in the methods and concepts of psychology and get advanced research training. Study this course if you want to go on to doctoral study in a range of psychology specialisms, or to follow a career in psychological research.
You’ll benefit from a two-term research internship taught in our School of Psychology. We are one of the largest psychology units in the UK and offer supervision across a range of topics, encompassed by our research groups in:
Biological Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Social Psychology.
You should normally have an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree or above. Your qualification should be should be in a subject that includes introductory statistics and research training, such as psychology and most social- or physical-science courses. You may also be considered for the course if you have other professional qualifications or experience of equivalent standing.
Our graduates are well prepared for careers as:
academics
associate tutors
researchers
technical advisers
teachers.
Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.
Autumn and spring teaching
The Research Process
Autumn teaching
An Adventure in Statistics
Qualitative Research Methods
Research Reform and Open Science
Spring and summer teaching
Research Dissertation
Spring teaching
Advanced Statistics
Bayesian Statistics
Programming for Experiments
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