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Postgraduate Programmes and Research Degrees

Taught Postgraduate Courses

The Psychology department offers a number of Master's level courses, please follow the links below for more information.

Cross-Cultural Psychology MSc

Teaching on the course is by renowned international experts on culture and ethnicity, with the Brunel teaching team being complemented with visiting speakers from around the world. Do people fall in love in the same way in every country? What makes a good leader in Chinese (and other, non-Western) societies? How might we help migrants best settle into their new culture? This course provides you with an understanding of how basic psychological processes may vary across cultures, and gives you the skills ...
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Evolutionary Psychology MSc

At Brunel we have extensive facilities for human subjects research (including EEG, fMRI, motion capture, 3D body scanning). How can evolutionary theory help us understand human behaviour? Do humans have a species-typical psychological design? What learning mechanisms would have been favoured by natural selection in ancestral environments? This programme provides an exciting opportunity for advanced study in Evolutionary Psychology, ie psychological science informed by explicit consideration of the fact that the human mind, ...
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Functional Neuroimaging MSc

Psychology is an expanding, research-led group with expertise in Social, Developmental, Health, Cross-Cultural, Psychoanalytic, Cognitive, and Applied Psychology, as well as in Neuropsychology and Neuroimaging. How does brain scanning equipment work? What can brain scanners tell us about brain function? How do differences in brain structure affect brain function? Recent years have been characterised by a rapid development of functional imaging technology, with increasing availability worldwide of high resolution scanners for research and clinical applications. Functional brain imaging requires an ...
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Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Society MA

Academic staff are involved in international-standard research, which is reflected by a rating of 5 in the last RAE. How are our behaviours influenced by unconscious motives? Which conflicts lie at the heart of contemporary individual and social problems? What explains our cultural and ideological obsession with power and violence? This MA is designed to provide you with a training in classical and contemporary psychoanalytic theory. It maintains a constant attention to the ...
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Psychology, Health and Behaviour MSc

The course will guide the student through a journey of health, illness, adjustment and rehabilitation. How can we change risky health behaviours (such as smoking, drinking)? Why don’t people take medicines as directed, even when the medicines are prescribed for serious illnesses? What psychological and social factors influence physical health? This course is aimed at a variety of graduates; people working in the health who wish to further their ...
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For further information, please contact:

Helen Stevenson
Postgraduate Admissions & Marketing Administrator
Email socscipgenq@brunel.ac.uk
Tel +44 (0)1895 265952

Veronica Johnson
Tel: +44 (0)1895 265951
veronica.johnson@brunel.ac.uk

PhD Degrees by Research

The first year of study for full-time research students on our PhD Programme is a research training year, in which the development of the thesis is combined with undertaking and completing a appropriate research and skill relevant modules, as required. The entire research study programme requires a minimum of three years’ full-time study or four years’ part-time study.

Research

For further information, please contact:

The Research Office
Tel: +44 (0)1895 266310
Email: sss-resadmin@brunel.ac.uk