Social Psychology

Applicants, normally, should possess a high level of pass in an appropriate Master's Degree, together with at least an Upper Second Class Honours Degree in an appropriate subject from a UK university or its equivalent elsewhere.

The Institute has four Doctoral streams in:-

• Social and Cultural Psychology
• Organisational and Social Psychology
• Social and Public Communications
• Health, Community and Development

Graduates from the Institute's own Master's Degrees in these areas must have achieved an average mark of 65% or better (pass mark, 50%) to be eligible for admission to the doctoral programme.

The social psychology programme involves coursework which will be formally assessed. This includes a broad training in research methods together with the core course from the corresponding Master's programme (Contemporary Social and Cultural Psychology (PS400); Organisational Social Psychology (PS404); Social and Public Communication (PS429); Health, Community and Development (PS461). In addition students will follow a specialised option course in the Lent Term of their initial year appropriate to the topic of their doctoral research. This latter course will be assessed by coursework alone. Candidates may be exempt from some or all of these course requirements, depending on their prior qualifications. All students are required to attend the Current Research in Social Psychology Seminar (PS950) during their first two years of full-time registration, or until the candidate has upgraded from MPhil to PhD.

Initial registration is for the Degree of MPhil. The power to up-grade a student's registration from MPhil to PhD is vested in a thesis committee which will meet, normally, not later than 15 months after initial registration for MPhil. A decision to upgrade registration from MPhil to PhD will apply retrospectively to incorporate the initial period of registration for MPhil. Candidates on the programme will be expected to submit their thesis by the end of their third year of registration full-time or its equivalent part-time.

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