Psychology

Entry requirements

We require applicants to hold, or be about to obtain, an Upper Second class Honours degree (or overseas equivalent) in a related subject area for entry to a PhD programme. A Lower Second class Honours degree may be considered if applicants also hold a Master's degree with a Merit classification.

Months of entry

January, April, September

Course content

Our PhD/MPhil Psychology programme enables you to undertake a research project from across the broad spectrum of topics that are integral to improving our understanding of psychological function.

These include (but are not limited to):

• Audiology and hearing

• Cognition and cognitive neuroscience

• Dementia

• Forensic psychology

• Health psychology

• Integration of psychological explanation to derive understanding and intervention in therapeutic settings

• Interpersonal and family environments

• Language and communicative development and disorders

• Memory

• Mental illness

• Neuroscience and aphasia

• Perception, action and decision making.