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  • Qualification

    MSc - Master of Science

  • Location

    Luton Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    SEP-24

  • Duration

    1 year

Course summary

About the course

How can we understand, intervene and promote health and wellbeing across the course of life? Health psychology works to answer this question, looking towards the interaction of psychological, social and biological factors to understand health and illness.

[BPS logo - link to bps.org.uk] Health psychology moves away from the medicalisation of health and illness. Instead, on this course, you take a more whole-person approach to understanding health and illness, studying social issues and aspects such as obesity, lifestyle and stress. Taught by an academic team actively involved in research in the field, you benefit from their up-to-the-minute knowledge and research skills.

This course forms stage one of the training you need to become a chartered psychologist member of the Division of Health Psychology within the British Psychological Society.

Why choose this course?

  • Gain new insights into the theory and practice of health psychology
  • Learn from an academic team who are members of the Research Centre for Applied Psychology
  • Be able to show how the links between scientific theory and practice can guide the collection and interpretation of empirical data
  • Develop a systematic understanding and critical awareness of current problems in the field
  • Confidently use qualitative and quantitative research methods to perform complex data analysis, interpretation, evaluation and synthesis
  • Build your competence in a range of techniques including multivariate analyses
  • Benefit from a strong sense of personal responsibility and professionalism that will enable you to practise or conduct research within ethical guidelines

Tuition fees

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£ 14,600per year

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University information

University of Bedfordshire

  • University League Table

    126th

  • Campus address

    University of Bedfordshire, Park Square, Luton, Luton, LU1 3JU, England

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    104th out of 118

  • Entry standards

    / Max 215
    98 46%

    118th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    56.0 56%

    61st

    38
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 5
    3.79 76%

    76th

    27

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