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
This MSc provides you with an understanding of how basic psychological processes may vary across cultures, and gives you the skills necessary to conduct your own research with different ethnic groups.
Evolutionary Psychology MSc
This MSc provides an exciting opportunity for advanced study in Evolutionary Psychology, i.e. psychological science informed by explicit consideration of the fact that the human mind, like the human body, is a product of evolutionary processes.
Functional Neuroimaging MSc
This MSc, the first of its kind in the UK, provides a strong theoretical and practical introduction to the world of neuroimaging research. The course is a good preparation for a PhD in functional brain imaging, or for working as part of a neuroimaging team with fMRI and/or other imaging modalities.
Psychology, Health and Behaviour MSc
The MSc teaches an understanding the psychological aspects of health, illness beliefs, and behaviours, and provides knowledge and research skills to undertake health research. The course is aimed at a variety of graduates and allows for a broad understanding of health.
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Society MA
This MA is designed to provide you with training in classical and contemporary psychoanalytic theory. It maintains a constant attention to the relation between theory and practice and provides a clinical grounding through its emphasis on the clinical writings of Freud, Klein and Lacan.
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.
For further information, please contact:
The Research Office
Tel: +44 (0)1895 266310
Email: sss-resadmin@brunel.ac.uk
