| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-18 | 2023-06-30 |
| 2024-01-23 | - |
| 2024-04-24 | - |
Program Overview
Overview
Study our BPS accredited psychology course to systematically investigate the depths and heights of mind and behaviour.
Become an expert at the research needed to make a positive impact on people’s lives and tackle the difficult issues affecting the world right now.Understanding and helping people has never been more important, meaning there are many career options our psychology graduates successfully pursue. These include working in psychology, health, business, sports, criminal justice, human resources, research, and education settings, to name a few.
Why Bradford?
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drop-in support sessions run by 'learner support officers' for a range of modules including research methods and statistics.
Examples of workplace learning
Psychology at Bradford involves opportunities to be mentored by professionals in mental health who will guide your aspirations to work in this area, right from the first year of study.
These include once-a-semester week-long intensive employability weeks with input from a clinical psychology admissions tutor, clinical psychologists, a local educational psychologist, a psychological wellbeing practitioner and a range of businesses keen to attract psychology professionals.
In addition, there is an exciting range of placement opportunities such as teacher training, mentoring young people, mental health services, placement with the Bradford District Care Trust in clinical psychology (on a competitive basis prioritising under-represented groups), and working in the 'Born in Bradford' project.
In collaboration with Pain Association Scotland, we are planning to support members of the public in the self-management of chronic pain. Students from the first year of study will have an opportunity to observe and learn how members of the public benefit from this support, potentially offering experience relevant to a career in mental health services.
"A pioneering first"
"The collaboration between the University of Bradford and Pain Association Scotland is a pioneering first and will give students a valuable opportunity to understand the self-management approach to health, with a particular emphasis on chronic pain. This is a growing area of health care, especially relevant as health services move towards person-centred, bio-psycho social models.
"This is a very practical course component in which students will gain insights based on observing and participating in live group work with patients, the place where theory meets practice. Alongside the topics of self-management like stress, sleep, pacing, understanding pain, students will also see the bio-psycho-social model in action and will observe rapport-building and motivation issues.
"This is a welcome first of its kind that will equip students with positive formative experiences that will inform study and may even inspire career choice." - Professor Sonia Cottom, Pain Association Scotland.
Professional accreditation
Our undergraduate psychology degree is accredited by the
British Psychological Society (BPS)
, assuring the quality of our teaching and your degree. All practising psychologists and Chartered Psychologist must have a British Psychological Society accredited degree and a postgraduate qualification and be registered with the Health and Care Professionals (HCPC).Program Outline
What you will study
All module information is for 2022 entry, and is subject to change.
First year
Core
Conceptual Issues in Psychology and Mental Health
Brain and Behaviour
Understanding Social Development
Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology
Thinking Psychologically at Bradford
Option
Introduction to Psychology (in Sociology and Criminology)
Peace and Violence: Theories, Cases and Challenges
A Critical History of Crime and Punishment
Second year
Core
Option
Final year
Core
Option
Learning and assessment
The teaching, learning and assessment strategy aims to develop active learning and takes into consideration the need for you to take greater responsibility for your own learning as you progress through the programme. You will be exposed to a variety of different learning and teaching approaches and activities. Please see the appendix for further details. Specifically, knowledge and understanding as well as transferable skills will be developed through:
Our approach is underpinned by research-led teaching which includes being exposed to the specialist research interests and practices of our academic team as well being informed by educational research.
Official programme specification
Career support
The University is committed to helping students develop and enhance employability and this is an integral part of many programmes. Specialist support is available throughout the course from Career and Employability Services including help to find part-time work while studying, placements, vacation work and graduate vacancies. Students are encouraged to access this support at an early stage and to use the extensive resources on the
Careers
website.Discussing options with specialist advisers helps to clarify plans through exploring options and refining skills of job-hunting. In most of our programmes there is direct input by Career Development Advisers into the curriculum or through specially arranged workshops.
Career prospects
A graduate with a psychology degree from the University of Bradford is highly valued by employers as they have the ability to examine issues in-depth and to make constructive judgements on them, and they have the capacity to work in groups to resolve problems or research issues.
Studying with us is the first step towards an exciting career in clinical, occupational, forensic, counselling, health or educational psychology.
The course also provides key transferable skills relevant to a variety of careers, including social work, personnel management, market research, advertising, teaching, broadcasting, nursing, the police and the Armed Forces.
Further study and research are also an option through MPhil and PhD programmes at the University.
