MSc Psychology (Conversion)

Studying psychology provides valuable insights into human behaviour and enhances self-awareness, interpersonal skills and critical thinking. It enables you to fully understand – and contribute to – important conversations, and opens doors to a wide variety of career paths, as well as serving as the next step in your training to become a qualified psychologist. Designed for both psychology and non-psychology graduates, this course offers a deep exploration of classical and contemporary theories and research methods. You’ll be introduced to the core branches, including cognitive, biological and developmental psychology, and debate opposing views before you specialise in your area of interest – from motivational psychology to psychopathology.You’ll examine how and when different approaches should be used and gain a scientific understanding of the human brain and central nervous system – learning how they react to techniques, behaviours, experiences and environments. You’ll also explore human development (identity, emotion social skills) and cognition (perception, attention, memory) before applying this knowledge to your own studies, discussions and debates – for example, whether it’s ethical to predict, and therefore potentially alter, human behaviour.Working in our campus laboratory, you’ll learn to design studies, conduct experiments, evaluate your evidence and communicate your findings – vastly improving your knowledge of statistical, empirical and qualitative measures, as well as your statistical analysis of data. Following this, you’ll work on a final research project – further exploring into a topic that interests you.