Graduate insight
“How can a song elicit similar emotions in people regardless of the language spoken? Why do we dream? What drives the decisions that we make?”
PSYC722
Advanced Psychology Research Project
60 credits
This module requires students to undertake an original project in an area associated with their specialist area of interest. It comprises an independent piece of research work conducted by the student and written up as a research report.
90% Coursework
10% Practicals
PSYC750
Personal and Professional Development
0 credits
This module will enhance students awareness of the transferable skills they possess, focus thinking about future employment, spur reflection on recent learning, and promote the effective use of feedback to enhance academic performance.
PSYC760
Advanced Research Design and Data Fluency for Psychology
20 credits
This module explores approaches to formulating psychological research questions, the design of studies to effectively investigate such questions, and how to work fluently with common types of psychological data.
100% Coursework
PSYC761
Advanced Research Practice and Data Analysis for Psychology
20 credits
This module teaches students to communicate their research in a conference-style presentation setting, to work collaboratively and make an impact in their academic and professional life, and to analyse psychological data using best practices for reproducibility and transparency in psychological science.
70% Coursework
30% Practicals
PSYC762
Models of Intervention in Psychology
20 credits
What makes a psychologically based intervention effective? This module covers a range of contemporary interventions for clinical psychological and behavioural problems, focusing on a critical analysis of the psychological mechanisms underlying interventions and explores how laboratory research can be translated into new interventions.
70% Coursework
30% Practicals
PSYC763
Advanced Skills and Techniques for Psychological Research Part 1
20 credits
The module introduces students to a range of approaches to data collection including interviewing, surveys, computer programming, systematic reviewing and EEG. It also provides students with a grounding in core research skills such as writing, literature reviewing and conducting service evaluation.
100% Coursework
PSYC764
Advanced Skills and Techniques for Psychological Research Part 2
20 credits
The module introduces students to a range of approaches to data analytic and data handling methodologies including qualitative approaches such as thematic analysis and content analysis and methods of analysing and data handling approaches to quantitative data such as JAMOVI/JASP and excel. The module will also cover specific elements of analysis such as clinical significance, psychometrics and research dissemination through academic posters.
100% Coursework
PSYC765
Neuropsychology and Neuroscience: From lab to community
20 credits
To show how different cognitive science and neuroscience techniques can be used to advance understanding cognition and how this relates to neurological conditions. Students are introduced to a range of neuropsychological conditions including Acquired Brain Injuries, Parkinson’s and dementia and approaches to intervention from lab through to hospital and community settings.
70% Coursework
30% Practicals
HIPL600
Interprofessional Learning 3
Every postgraduate taught course has a detailed programme specification document describing the programme aims, the programme structure, the teaching and learning methods, the learning outcomes and the rules of assessment.
The following programme specification represents the latest programme structure and may be subject to change:
New student | 2024-2025 | 2025-2026 |
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Home | £9,900 | £10,300 |
International | £17,600 | £18,150 |
Part time (Home) | £550 | £570 |
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“How can a song elicit similar emotions in people regardless of the language spoken? Why do we dream? What drives the decisions that we make?”