This programme provides an opportunity for intensive advanced training in psychological research, while giving students flexibility to select courses in the areas of psychology and cognitive neuroscience of most interest to them. In addition to advanced training in general academic skills and statistical modelling, students will gain training in a variety of specific methodologies including, but not limited to brain imaging, neurodisruption, eyetracking, clinical case analysis, psychometric modelling, and discourse analysis.

Building on the research methods training, students will take topical courses in one of the core research areas of the department: social psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, individual differences, psychology of language, and human development.

The MSc culminates in a research dissertation in a core research area: an original, publication-quality piece of research, undertaken in close collaboration with researchers in the relevant group.