Psychology
Position Details (Master's)
A Master's by Research (MSc) in Psychology from University of Huddersfield allows you to undertake a one year (full-time) research degree. It contains little or no formal taught component. This type of study gives you the chance to explore a research topic over a shorter time than a more in-depth doctoral program.We were named University of the Year by Times Higher Education in 2013. Huddersfield is the only University where 100% of permanent teaching staff are Fellows of the Higher Education Authority. Our courses have been accredited by 41 professional bodies. 94.6% of our postgraduate students go on to work and/or further study within six months of graduating. We have world-leading applied research groups in Biomedical Sciences, Engineering and Physical Sciences, Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities.
Research Psychology Master's students from University of Huddersfield choose a specific project to work on and have a greater degree of independence in their work than is the case with a taught Master’s course.
Why choose Huddersfield?
There are many reasons to choose the University of Huddersfield and here are just five of them:
Courses include:
- Arts and Health
- Arts-based, place-based and environmental research
- Assessing a typical behaviour using cognitive models
- Assisted conception and BAME communities
- Cancer screening behaviour
- Causes and consequences of individual differences in executive function and attention
- Cognitive and neural correlates of psychological disorders
- Death, dying and bereavement: includes experiences of end-of-life care and responses to death/mortality
- Decision making and substance abuse
- Designing future cities to resist terrorist threat
- Developing Concepts of Gender
- Deviant sexual expression
- Experimental and formal investigations of memory, spatial cognition and mental imagery
Research Areas & Fields of Study involved in the position
Position Start Date
Jan 2026
University of Huddersfield
On Campus (Full Time)
1 year
Expired