You will have the opportunity to spend part of your second year in a voluntary work placement gaining valuable contacts and practical experience. You will also have the chance to volunteer in your local community through our Active Student programme.
You'll develop specialist skills using our multi-purpose psychology labs. High tech facilities include an applied cognition lab, creative methods lab, experimental booths, mobile eye tracker, eye-tracking glasses and psychophysiology measuring kit. You will also benefit form an open-access teaching space and a dedicated psychology technician who will support your experiments.
95% of our psychology graduates go on to work or study upon finishing their course.* with a number of specialist fields open to you in areas such as forensic psychology, occupational psychology and clinical psychology. Other typical areas of work for our graduates include social research, local government, criminal justice, marketing, social work and teaching. *(Source: Unistats/Applied Psychology and Sociology, National Students Survey 2016).