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Qualification
Professional Doctorate
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Location
Stratford Campus
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
SEP-25
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Duration
3 years
Course summary
Course Summary
This course provides full-time professional training leading towards registration with the Health and Caring Professions Council (HCPC) as an Educational Psychologist (this is a protected title). During the programme trainees will participate in university based teaching and learning, modular assessments, research culminating in a doctoral thesis and professional practice placements in Local Authorities and other settings relevant to educational psychologist work.
This course will equip you to work as an Educational Psychologist in Local Authority children’s services, Educational Psychology teams, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), voluntary agencies or independently. We are driven by our determination to work towards social justice for vulnerable young people and their families and for children with special educational needs, and to advocate for their rightful place in society.
The Professional Doctorate in Educational and Child Psychology programme at UEL aims:
To ensure trainees:
- develop the Standards of Proficiency required to work as safe and effective educational psychologists
- understand the implications of the HCPC’s standards of conduct, performance and ethics
- develop autonomous practice and reflective thinking
- develop appropriate research skills as a basis for evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence
- respect the rights and needs of service users through a commitment to equal opportunities and the principles of beneficence, autonomy and social justice.
- become competent and creative educational psychologists able to work effectively in educational and community settings
Your Future Career
There is a national shortage of educational psychologists and graduates of our programme are in great demand.
Our programme is designed to give you the opportunity to:
- Qualify as a practitioner educational psychologist with the HCPC
- Become a creative applied psychological practitioner
- Apply psychology to make a positive different to children, families, carers and schools
- Apply best educational psychology practice, based on research evidence and professional experience (practice based evidence)
- Become a self-reflective practitioner and continue to develop personally and professionally through your career
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University information
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University of East London, Docklands Campus, 4-6 University Way, Newham, E16 2RD, England
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Subject ranking
84th out of 91 2
104th out of 118 6
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/ Max 10067.0 67%72nd
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Student satisfaction
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