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The Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling and Therapeutic Practice is designed for health and social care professionals who need advanced communication and counselling skills within their professional role. Psychodynamic counsellors work with people to understand and resolve emotional difficulties or dilemmas from the perspective of the individual's relational context and the influence of unconscious processes and dynamics on past and present patterns of relating and communicating with others.

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MRes is an internationally recognised qualification that assures employers of a set of graduate abilities that are not as fully developed by taught programmes. This is achieved by focused reasearch on individual projects under the supervision of School of Life Science researchers whose work was recognised in RAE 2008.

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The Postgraduate Certificate in Counselling Skills is designed for health and social care professionals who need advanced communication and counselling skills within their professional role. In addition to the academic credit/postgraduate certificate, these two 30 credit modules combined give eligibility for the award of COSCA Certificate in Counselling Skills.

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Cognitive Science is a discipline in growing demand, and Edinburgh is a widely recognised leader in this area, with particular strengths in natural language, speech technology, robotics and learning, neural computation and philosophy of the mind. You will gain a thorough grounding in neural computation, formal logic, computational and theoretical linguistics, cognitive psychology, and natural language processing, and through a vast range of optional courses you will develop your own interests in this fascinating field.

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Core courses Research methods (two courses) Advanced statistics and research design Professional skills Research project. Depending on your funding source, you may also be required to attend a course in qualitative methods.

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You will attend lectures, seminars and tutorials and take part in lab work. Core courses Research methods (two courses) Statistics Professional skills Brain imaging methods Research project.

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The Engineering Psychology with Ergonomics programme exposes students to the established field of study which operates at this important interface, equipping you with state of the art knowledge and actionable methods to enable a significant contribution to be made to complex real-world problems. The objective of the programme is to consider the human in systems from a physical, cognitive and organisational perspective.

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The MSc/PG Diploma course in Safety and Risk Management aims to provide students with advanced knowledge of risk assessment techniques, the public and individual perception of risk, and how decisions are made in competitive business markets. The focus is on practical applications of safety methodologies, ergonomics and human factors, and safety and risk management techniques.

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Applied Psychology at Heriot-Watt University bridges the gaps that are often found between theory and real-word application. Our research activities are focussed on three research groups concerning Relationships and Well-Being; Applied Cognition and Vision; and Cognitive Development and Education.

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The Applied Psychology Programme was founded in 2003 and has established a reputation for being a small and friendly 'premium' department, with an excellent staff-student ratio. Our emphasis on applied psychology makes us near unique in the United Kingdom, and means we have a good understanding of how psychology is used in real-world settings.

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