Postgraduate Courses in Social Psychology

 

 

 


Lancaster University: Psychology Department

MSc Social Psychology

This is a very flexible scheme, which has four pathways (1): Social psychology and social processes; (2) Social and developmental psychology; (3) Qualitative social psychology; (4) Social psychology of conflict and solidarity. Within each pathway, students can take a range of specialist modules. For further info, click here.


London School of Economics and Political Science: Institute of Social Psychology

MSc Social and Public Communication

This programme explores communication as a social psychological process central to the conduct of everyday life.

 

MSc Organisational and Social Psychology

A high quality academic training addressing the social psychology of organisations and providing multidisciplinary coverage of organisational contexts, processes and cases.

 

MSc Social and Cultural Psychology

This programme addresses the relations between psychological, social and cultural phenomena, providing extensive coverage of both theoretical and applied issues.

For further details of all these courses, please see the graduate prospectus.


Queen’s University Belfast: School of Psychology

MSc Political Psychology

This course focuses on understanding political phenomena by exploring how socio-political contexts and institutions are affected and affect individual and collective cognitions and behaviours. Further information.


Royal Holloway, University of London : Department of Psychology

MSc Applied Social Psychology

This programme offers a firm grounding in how to apply social psychology to a broad range of settings. Further information.


University of Aberdeen: Graduate School College of Life Sciences and Medicine

MSc Social Cognitive Neuroscience

This interdisciplinary degree programme is based in the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen and utilises the complementary insights and approaches of neuroscience and social science to explore the social and emotional components of human behaviour. Further information.


University of Cambridge: Department of Social and Developmental Psychology

MPhil Social and Developmental Psychology

This course introduces students to a broad range of issues in social and developmental psychology, provides them with opportunities to conduct a substantial piece of research, and allows them to obtain more intensive training in either social or developmental psychology. For more info.


University of Central Lancashire: School of Psychology

MSc Social Psychology

The programme will further develop your knowledge of psychology and advanced methodologies and through guided practical work will develop your research ability. Further information.


University College London : Division of Psychology and Language Sciences

MSc Social Cognition (Research and Applications)

This MSc focuses on how individuals construe the social world and the processes that underlie social judgment and behaviour. Further information.


University of Exeter: College of Life and Environmental Sciences

MSc Social and Organisational Psychology

The programme is taught by researchers at the cutting-edge of both social and organisational fields, and includes a three-month research/practical placement. Further information.


University of Kent: School of Psychology

MSc in Forensic Psychology

This programme provides academic training for Psychology graduates in the application of psychology to issues in criminology and in the criminal justice system and research training in the areas of criminological, legal and forensic psychology. For more information. 

 

MSc in Group Processes And Intergroup Relations

This programme provides advanced training specifically in group and intergroup processes, develops their research expertise in techniques for studying psychological aspects of group processes, and enables them to conduct advanced research in this area. For more info.

 

MSc in Social and Applied Psychology

Students sample from the range of modules in the Group Processes and Forensic programmes as well as other modules related to social and applied psychology; gain a thorough grounding in research methods; and conduct a project in an area of social/applied psychology that interests them. Further information.


University of Surrey: Department of Psychology

MSc in Social Psychology

This course is a well-established, research-focused course, characterised by a pluralist approach to topics, theories and research methods within Social Psychology. Further info.


University of Sussex: School of Psychology

MSc Applied Social Psychology

This programme offers advanced study in applied psychology, taught by one of the UK's leading research groups in this area. It provides a good grounding in theoretical perspectives, along with the appropriate research techniques and expertise. Further information.

 


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York St. John University: Department of Psychology

MSc in Community & Critical Social Psychology

This programme will enable you to take a fresh approach to psychology, involving a focus on critique of accepted ways of working within the discipline and engagements with pressing ‘real-world’ concerns. Further information.


 

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