Psychology

Entry requirements

2:i undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in Psychology or a related subject.

Months of entry

September

Course content

The department has 18 full-time members of academic staff, well equipped laboratories and excellent contacts with hospitals, schools and industry. Considerable importance is attached to a strong programme of postgraduate research. Research training element takes up to 60% of 1st year and 5% in years 2 and 3 of PhD programme.

Department specialisms

Behavioural Science Economic and Consumer Psychology; Judgement, Risk and Decision-Making; Psychology and the Law; Computational Modelling of Human Behaviour; Attention, Visual Processing and Emotional Processing. Language and Learning Reading; Word Recognition; Semantic Representation of Words; Language Development in Children; Second Language Learning; Computational Approaches to Language Processing, Learning and Change; Gesture and Non-verbal Communication in Adults and Children; Development of Social Cognition; Animal (Comparative) Communication and Cognition; Language Evolution. Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Longitudinal Epidemiology and Experimental Psychology, with common interests in the factors that determine and/or the mechanisms that underlie healthy living, development and ageing; sleep and pain; disaster recovery; culture, relationships, beliefs, personality, and well-being.

Information for international students

English Language requirement: Band B. For more guidance on English language requirements please visit this page.

Fees and funding

For more information on funding please visit our Postgraduate fees and funding page.

Qualification and course duration

MPhil/PhD

MSc by research