Applied Psychology

Entry requirements

We welcome your application regardless of your background or experience.

For this course, we generally look for applicants with at least a high 2:2 in Psychology or a closely related discipline.

If you have relevant qualifications or work experience, we may be able to count this towards your entry requirements.

Months of entry

September

Course content

This course has been developed to meet a growing demand for knowledge, skills and experience in the application of psychology to tackle real-world problems, and to bring about change in areas such as physical and mental health and wellbeing, counselling, child development and education, developmental disorders, trauma, and clinical neuropsychology. It will teach a range of generic and subject-specific skills which are needed for a career as a practising psychologist.

Applied Psychology is the application of psychological understanding to real-world situations, to create positive change. Applied psychologists work across a variety of sectors including mental health and wellbeing services, education, sport and exercise settings, business, and the criminal justice system.

To become a chartered psychologist, you will need to undertake additional study and practice in an applied area such as clinical neuropsychology, counselling, educational, sport and exercise, or health psychology.

This MSc in Applied Psychology lays the foundations for this by offering specialised modules in neuropsychology, counselling and psychotherapy, trauma, developmental disorders, and topics and applied issues in developmental and educational psychology.

You will learn both qualitative and quantitative research skills to enable you to evaluate and inform evidence-based practice, and to conduct your own higher-level psychological research.

The course has a step-off point at Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate.

What you will gain

If you join us on this course, you'll leave with excellent employment prospects — over 90% of our Psychology graduates are employed within six months of completing their degree.

You'll have access to unrivalled facilities, which include fully-equipped lecture theatres and tutorial spaces, a psychophysiology laboratory, social observation laboratories, a video editing suite, a virtual reality laboratory, an auditory cognition laboratory, and testing cubicles.

You'll be taught by expert staff who are leading researchers and practitioners in cognitive neuropsychology, counselling and psychotherapy, developmental psychology, health psychology, and sports and exercise psychology.

Fees and funding