Psychology University of Essex

Overview

We recognise and understand the importance of continuing professional development for students and have designed this course for students who do not have English as a first language and may have been studying in a different country, or out of a traditional academic environment for some time.

This is a tailor-made course that seeks to combine skills and enhanced subject-specific research proposals to give you the best underpinning for your doctoral studies. A core aim of the course is for students to refine English language for scholarly communication, enhance academic skills for postgraduate study, hone higher-level research skills, and master how to study and manage academic work in the UK context.

The Psychology course offered by University of Essex is comprised of the following elements:

• English language for postgraduate research studies

• academic skills for postgraduate research studies

• research skills for psychology

• research proposal

• studying and researching in the UK

This four-year PhD does not include a Masters degree in its first year, like other existing Integrated PhDs offered at Essex. On this course you enrol for a PhD in Psychology (with research and communication skills) for a PhD final award, with only a Postgraduate Diploma or Postgraduate Certificate available as exit awards after the first year. You take a number of core and compulsory modules in your first year of study, and the next three years are spent conducting your individual research project.

Why we're great.

• We offer a range of PhD studentships and funding opportunities.

• We provide excellent state-of-the-art facilities for study, with extensive laboratory space for experimental psychology and special facilities for visual and auditory perception, developmental psychology and social psychology, with the Hearing Research Laboratory and the Visual Perception Unit.

• We also have the Centre for Brain Sciences (CBS), a state-of-the-art research facility dedicated to the study of brain activity in relation to psychological processes. This provides a dynamic resource for psychology and neuroscience with specialised laboratories for investigating brain activity.