Psychology

Entry requirements

We require applicants to hold, or be about to obtain, an Upper Second class Honours degree, or the equivalent qualification gained outside the UK, 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