Graduates of the MSc Psychology: Mental Health Sciences programme will come away with a comprehensive understanding of the diagnosis, course and multiple causes and consequences of psychiatric disorders so you can be part of the solutions to improve mental health.
As a student on programme you will develop the skills required to conduct interdisciplinary research in mental health working with experts within the Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology.
The programme places special emphasis on developing key skills in experimental design and statistics as well as advanced hands-on training in many of the specialist methodologies applied to mental health research
Queen Mary is home to the research-intensive Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, whose academics have developed and teach the programme. The department has extensive expertise in the social and biological basis of behaviour with leading researchers in social psychology, genetics and neuroscience and the application of these methods to understanding psychiatric disorders.
You will have access to state-of-the-art research facilities such as the Electroencephalography (EEG) lab and will work alongside our world-leading academics and PhD students as part of a 12-month research project. Your research may even end up in a published paper! Being the only Russell Group campus university in London, there is a real sense of community within Queen Mary and you will be joining a very friendly and supportive department.
This course will enhance future applications for clinical training such as the Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. Please note, however, that the MSc itself does not lead to a clinical qualification. It also provides students with advanced, interdisciplinary training in the science of mental health. This includes with hands-on training in many different approaches including EEG, psychophysiology, and genomics. This means that students are also very well prepared for a career as a research psychologist (via a PhD), but equally the skills they will come away with will be universally applicable to a wide range of careers.