Psychology BSc (Hons)

Psychology of Coaching, Sport and Exercise

This module will provide students with an introduction to sport and exercise psychology and coaching psychology. This is an opportunity to explore two other chartered areas of psychology, especially if you are thinking of carrying out an empirical project or could be interested in pursuing a career in these fields.

Crime and the Media

​​The influence on media upon everyday life has grown expeditiously over the past few decades, creating new and emerging narratives around the impact crime has upon society. Moreover, media reporting of crime and deviant behaviour has helped to shape attitudes towards risk, harm and abuse, which in turn contributes to pressures on government, policy and law makers to rethink what behaviour is acceptable. This module will allow students to navigate such complex ideas and influences, providing them with the knowledge to critically think about the role of media - news, film, music, books, adverts etc., upon attitudes towards crime.

​The module will introduce relevant theory and key concepts, as well as examine historical influences of media on understandings and attitudes towards crime. Moreover, the module will consider the impact of the media on perceptions of perpetrators and victims, introducing notions of 'deserving' offenders and victims.

​This module is part of a series of three modules in the first year that outlines that context for the study of criminology. This particular module helps the student distinguish between popular and media depictions of crime and the academic study of crime. ​

Young People and Crime

​​Increasingly, young people are being caught up in the criminal justice system, either as a perpetrator, victim, or witness of crime. The complexities around crime increase the likelihood of those under the age of 18 seamlessly moving between being a victim of crime, as well as the perpetrator of crime. Alongside this, the rise of the internet and social media exposes young people to new and emerging criminal opportunities, making it harder for the police and criminal justice system to prevent engagement to risky situations. This module will explore crime through the lens of children and young people, with a focus on how crime influences identity and future opportunities.

​This module is part of three modules that explain the context in which crime occurs in a city like Bradford. It is designed to provide the context for the study of the criminal justice system and specific forms of crime in years 2 and 3.

Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology

This module will introduce you to the basic concepts and procedures used to conduct and evaluate psychological research. Emphasis will be placed on understanding established research methods, applying robust techniques in order to produce interpretable and reproducible results and evaluating published scientific reports. The lab component of the course will focus on the skills required to produce original research in psychology. It will provide you with hands-on experience of analysing and writing up qualitative and quantitative data.

Thinking Psychologically at Bradford

This module builds a portfolio of skills which are transferable across your degree and beyond whilst introducing you to the Department of Psychology at Bradford, including the academic staff and their research.

In the skills based elements of this module you will be introduced to practical approaches and theories relevant to the psychology of learning. The module develops skills which are relevant to studying psychology and to employability such as developing a CV, team working, critically evaluating theories and debating topics in group settings. You will learn how to assess and reflect upon your own approaches to learning, about how to avoid plagiarism and the importance of referencing. Personal development planning will allow you to continuously reflect and record your achievements.

Interwoven with these key elements will be an introduction to the Psychology team and their research areas and interests. This will allow you to become more informed about the Bradford experience and what makes Psychology at Bradford unique. You will also learn about the different schools of thought and research paradigms present within the broader research taking place within the Department.

Brain and Behaviour

This module will introduce the major psychological theories and concepts that explain how we become thinking individuals. You will explore the basic organisation of the nervous system from neuronal cells to global anatomy, and the physiology of the human sensory system including vision, olfaction, gustation and tactile perception. You will also learn about the neuropsychology of learning and memory, including attention, eyewitness testimony, and theories of forgetting. We will also explore how we understand spoken and written language, and psychological theories of personality.

Conceptual Issues in Psychology and Mental Health

The aim of this module is to introduce the cultural, historical, and social issues inherent to psychological sciences and their philosophical and ethical underpinnings. You will be introduced to a variety of core areas within psychology that are sometimes called paradigms or perspectives. As one of the first modules of your programme of study, you will be working in teams to start establishing relationships across the cohort. Called team-based learning, this is a 'flipped' model where you engage with the learning materials before class (rather than during or after class). Classes start with a readiness assurance process in which you complete a multiplechoice question quiz on the learning materials as an individual (individual readiness assurance test; iRAT) and subsequently in your team (team readiness assurance test; tRAT). Classes follow the readiness assurance process with a range of team application exercises in which you apply the knowledge from the learning materials. You will, for example, make decisions about how a historical source can be interpreted. Through presenting your choices, your team will learn how to reliably describe the material in the syllabus with structured and coherent arguments and through audio-visual means (e.g., in person or with a video).

Understanding Social Development

In this module, you will explore psychological approaches to understanding and researching how we become social beings. This means understanding psychological theories of how we develop the capabilities to think, feel and behave in relation to others throughout the lifespan. Alongside lifespan development, this module aims to help you understand psychological theories of the social, such as what makes a group or a community and the roles - leader and followers, for example û within them. This will also include methodological and ethical issues, particularly the role of experiments and the measurement of personality.

As befits the module aims to understand social development, you will also explore key aspects behind the learning strategy, which is based on psychological theories about how to develop effective communication and problem-solving skills as independent learners and professionals. Called team-based learning, this is a 'flipped' model where you engage with the learning materials before class (rather than during or after class). Classes start with a readiness assurance process in which you complete a multiple-choice question quiz on the learning materials as an individual (individual readiness assurance test; i-RAT) and subsequently in your team (team readiness assurance test; t-RAT).

Classes follow the readiness assurance process with a range of team application exercises in which you apply the knowledge from the learning materials. You will, for example, make decisions based on a theory or finding of social development. Through writing justifications for their choices, your team will learn how to reliably describe the material in the syllabus with structured and coherent arguments.

CBT and Positive Psychotherapy

This module will focus on how to expand the scopes of traditional problem-solving therapeutic approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (CBT) and Positive Psychotherapy (PPT). Students will explore and understand assessment and treatment of psychological problems. Students will also learn how to re-examine most mental health conditions by shifting the focus from a deficit-based view of psychopathology, where symptoms and deficit are the core of mental illness, to a view where the regulation and dysregulation of strengths assumes a central role in human flourishing. The module will critically analyse advantages and limits of CBT and PPT, and it will offer opportunities to reflect on how to improve the clinical and psychotherapeutic practice.

Understanding Race and Ethnicity

With reference to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and western imperialisms, the module explains how notions of race, racial difference and racial inequality have evolved and become embedded within modern society. The module draws upon postcolonial literature and cultural studies, and wider academic ethnic relations discourse. The module also explores legislation, immigration as well as varied manifestations of race thinking (institutional, cultural and biological forms of racism, for example).

Inequalities and Crime

This module develops a critical perspective on the criminal justice system by showing how the CJS discriminates against different populations. The students will understand how discrimination works across different parts of the CJS and through doing so will develop their critical and analytical abilities. This module is a foundational module for the programme and it fulfils EDI and decolonial objectives for the programme as a whole. It also prepares the students for work opportunities in a CJS which serves a diverse community.

This module explores inequalities within society, including poverty, gender, ethnicity, disability, and access to opportunities, and how such inequalities contribute to understandings of crime. Theory will be used to underpin discussions, with the influence on offending and victimisation being considered. Students will be guided towards relevant legislation, policy and practice that contributes to inequalities in the criminal justice system, as well as be required to identify and interpret trends within crime patterns. Throughout the module, contemporary examples of inequality in the criminal justice will be referred to, with students encouraged to think critically about such situations.

Cognitive Psychology

In this module you will learn about human cognitive processes including how people reason, think and perceive, and how we use language to communicate with others, as well as covering individual differences. You will also gain an understanding of human consciousness and the interaction between emotion and cognitive processes.

This module will give you an appreciation of techniques used to investigate cognitive psychology such as neuroimaging and neuroscientific methods. The practical component will allow understanding into how cognitive psychology is researched experimentally.

Social Psychology

Social psychology is concerned with the description and explanation of human behaviour in situations where people are interacting with others. You will gain a comprehensive and critical understanding of the concepts and methods used in explanations of human behaviour when these are applied to individuals and groups in a social context as well as our understanding of individual difference. The nature of groups will be considered: micro groups (for example friendship or work networks) and macro groups (for example culture).

Substantive content will range from traditional social psychological theories and methods to more critical reflection on the replication crisis in social psychological research. Ethical issues in social psychological research will be a key theme throughout the module programme as will the application of knowledge to our everyday behaviours and how we consider behaviour change in a social world.

Further Research Methods in Psychology

This module aims to facilitate a critical understanding of a range of different empirical research methods in psychology. The objectives are to give you a depth of understanding regarding the advantages, limitations and appropriateness of a variety of quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis methods. Throughout the module you will have the opportunity to work through some of the issues and practicalities of carrying out and reporting empirical research

Lifespan and Individual Differences

This module critically considers the role of theory/ research in understanding developmental issues and individual differences in infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and later life. You will engage with topics of relevance to contemporary developmental psychology and consider the relationship between developmental psychology and cognate disciplines such as biology and sociology and developmental psychology's explanation of individual differences. Teamwork skills will be developed through a poster presentation.

Psychobiology and Neuroscience

This module examines the psychobiological control of functions such as consciousness, locomotion, emotion, pain, eating and sleep. You will investigate the role of biology in a number of different pathologies including eating disorders, anxiety, schizophrenia, substance abuse and other neurological disorders such as epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease. The module explores how knowledge of the structure and function of the nervous system has given rise to current biological-pharmacological treatments of psychiatric and degenerative pathologies, and explanations of difference.

Psychological Life Skills and Employability

This module is intended to provide you with support, feedback and supervision in an applied setting. This module provides you with a structured opportunity for professional development. The module is defined as a period of work for practical experience as part of an academic programme. This module prepares you to participate with professionals in applying the principles of psychology. It teaches professional standards and helps you to develop personal standards.

Advances in Child Development in Education Contexts

The aim of this module is to explore a range of contemporary theoretical and methodological issues within the field of child development in educational contexts. You will engage with a variety of topics and critically evaluate the contribution that psychological theory and research makes to an understanding of how children's individual differences, personality, behaviour, and thinking develop within this context. The module will provide the opportunity for developing research skills and presentation skills.

Advanced Issues in Neuropsychology

The aim of this module is to provide you with advanced level understanding of topics in neuropsychology. You will learn about the link between brain function, brain anatomy and behaviour. There will also be a strong focus in this module on techniques used by neuropsychologists to investigate the brain and its functioning. We will look at neurodevelopment, brain damage and its resulting consequences, recovery and approach to treatments. Ethical issues and individual differences will be discussed.

Clinical Psychology and Mental Health

The objectives of this module are to foster a critical appraisal of clinical psychology as a discipline interested in promoting people's mental health and relieving mental distress. Students will learn about a variety of clinical approaches (e.g., behavioural, cognitive, psychodynamic, positive, and humanistic), used to provide a conceptualisation, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of various mental health conditions (e.g., anxiety, depression, psychosis, substance abuse etc.). Diagnostic criteria will be described and clinical research, theory and practice will be reviewed to improve the understanding of the factors impacting on people's mental health and the most promising treatments for mental distress.

Forensic Psychology

This module enables you to explore the concept of 'crime', who commits crime, assessment and treatment of criminal behaviour, legal psychology and psychology and the courts. It focuses upon psychological approaches and principles and the module will enable you to critically evaluate how psychology relates to crime, the criminal justice system and the judicial process.

The Psychology of Health and Eating

The aim of this module is to familiarise you with contemporary theoretical and methodological issues in health psychology and in the psychology of eating. You will engage with a range of topics within these disciplines and will be given opportunities to consider the relationship between these and cognate disciplines such as biology and sociology. The module will provide the opportunity to develop team work and presentational skills through the team based learning and the researching and creating an audio-visual presentation.

Globalisation, Migration and Refugees

This module aims to:

- Provide a critical awareness of key themes, trends, and debates in the field of global migration and migration policy;

- Provide a range of theoretical perspectives on migration as a global issue, and its relationship with social policy, welfare, social integration, development, human rights, and international politics;

- Develop students' ability to apply critical perspectives and research evidence in the analysis of global issues, challenges, and social policies;

-Develop students' ability to critically engage with knowledge production processes and methodological debates in the field of migration research.

Educational Transitions

Educational Transitions examines historical and contemporary systems of education from a sociological perspective. Education systems are main instruments of socialisation, teaching pupils and students how to navigate a complex social world. They are also, paradoxically, a principle means of improving social mobility even as they tend to reproduce and reinforce social inequalities. These issues have only become more pronounced in the age of digital technologies and the covid-19 pandemic. While examining a range of social-scientific theories on education, students will reflect on the ways in which the structures of education mirror the cultural, social, and political structures of the UK and evaluate, critically, the role that educational structures play in promoting and inhibiting social mobility. They will also examine critical shifts in educational provision - including the increase in distance-learning technologies and the rising popularity of home-schooling and reflect upon how these changes affect the role of education as a socialising agent.

Research Project in Psychology

The aim of the module is the production of a dissertation reporting empirical research, conducted under appropriate supervision. A subordinate aim is the consolidation, application and further development of knowledge and skills in research methods acquired from Stage One and Stage Two level modules. A final aim is the acquisition of in-depth knowledge and understanding of the area of psychology chosen by the student as the focus of the dissertation.

Psychology of Coaching, Sport and Exercise

This module will provide students with an introduction to sport and exercise psychology and coaching psychology. This is an opportunity to explore two other chartered areas of psychology, especially if you are thinking of carrying out an empirical project or could be interested in pursuing a career in these fields.

Crime and the Media

​​The influence on media upon everyday life has grown expeditiously over the past few decades, creating new and emerging narratives around the impact crime has upon society. Moreover, media reporting of crime and deviant behaviour has helped to shape attitudes towards risk, harm and abuse, which in turn contributes to pressures on government, policy and law makers to rethink what behaviour is acceptable. This module will allow students to navigate such complex ideas and influences, providing them with the knowledge to critically think about the role of media - news, film, music, books, adverts etc., upon attitudes towards crime.

​The module will introduce relevant theory and key concepts, as well as examine historical influences of media on understandings and attitudes towards crime. Moreover, the module will consider the impact of the media on perceptions of perpetrators and victims, introducing notions of 'deserving' offenders and victims.

​This module is part of a series of three modules in the first year that outlines that context for the study of criminology. This particular module helps the student distinguish between popular and media depictions of crime and the academic study of crime. ​

Young People and Crime

​​Increasingly, young people are being caught up in the criminal justice system, either as a perpetrator, victim, or witness of crime. The complexities around crime increase the likelihood of those under the age of 18 seamlessly moving between being a victim of crime, as well as the perpetrator of crime. Alongside this, the rise of the internet and social media exposes young people to new and emerging criminal opportunities, making it harder for the police and criminal justice system to prevent engagement to risky situations. This module will explore crime through the lens of children and young people, with a focus on how crime influences identity and future opportunities.

​This module is part of three modules that explain the context in which crime occurs in a city like Bradford. It is designed to provide the context for the study of the criminal justice system and specific forms of crime in years 2 and 3.

Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology

This module will introduce you to the basic concepts and procedures used to conduct and evaluate psychological research. Emphasis will be placed on understanding established research methods, applying robust techniques in order to produce interpretable and reproducible results and evaluating published scientific reports. The lab component of the course will focus on the skills required to produce original research in psychology. It will provide you with hands-on experience of analysing and writing up qualitative and quantitative data.

Thinking Psychologically at Bradford

This module builds a portfolio of skills which are transferable across your degree and beyond whilst introducing you to the Department of Psychology at Bradford, including the academic staff and their research.

In the skills based elements of this module you will be introduced to practical approaches and theories relevant to the psychology of learning. The module develops skills which are relevant to studying psychology and to employability such as developing a CV, team working, critically evaluating theories and debating topics in group settings. You will learn how to assess and reflect upon your own approaches to learning, about how to avoid plagiarism and the importance of referencing. Personal development planning will allow you to continuously reflect and record your achievements.

Interwoven with these key elements will be an introduction to the Psychology team and their research areas and interests. This will allow you to become more informed about the Bradford experience and what makes Psychology at Bradford unique. You will also learn about the different schools of thought and research paradigms present within the broader research taking place within the Department.

Brain and Behaviour

This module will introduce the major psychological theories and concepts that explain how we become thinking individuals. You will explore the basic organisation of the nervous system from neuronal cells to global anatomy, and the physiology of the human sensory system including vision, olfaction, gustation and tactile perception. You will also learn about the neuropsychology of learning and memory, including attention, eyewitness testimony, and theories of forgetting. We will also explore how we understand spoken and written language, and psychological theories of personality.

Conceptual Issues in Psychology and Mental Health

The aim of this module is to introduce the cultural, historical, and social issues inherent to psychological sciences and their philosophical and ethical underpinnings. You will be introduced to a variety of core areas within psychology that are sometimes called paradigms or perspectives. As one of the first modules of your programme of study, you will be working in teams to start establishing relationships across the cohort. Called team-based learning, this is a 'flipped' model where you engage with the learning materials before class (rather than during or after class). Classes start with a readiness assurance process in which you complete a multiplechoice question quiz on the learning materials as an individual (individual readiness assurance test; iRAT) and subsequently in your team (team readiness assurance test; tRAT). Classes follow the readiness assurance process with a range of team application exercises in which you apply the knowledge from the learning materials. You will, for example, make decisions about how a historical source can be interpreted. Through presenting your choices, your team will learn how to reliably describe the material in the syllabus with structured and coherent arguments and through audio-visual means (e.g., in person or with a video).

Understanding Social Development

In this module, you will explore psychological approaches to understanding and researching how we become social beings. This means understanding psychological theories of how we develop the capabilities to think, feel and behave in relation to others throughout the lifespan. Alongside lifespan development, this module aims to help you understand psychological theories of the social, such as what makes a group or a community and the roles - leader and followers, for example û within them. This will also include methodological and ethical issues, particularly the role of experiments and the measurement of personality.

As befits the module aims to understand social development, you will also explore key aspects behind the learning strategy, which is based on psychological theories about how to develop effective communication and problem-solving skills as independent learners and professionals. Called team-based learning, this is a 'flipped' model where you engage with the learning materials before class (rather than during or after class). Classes start with a readiness assurance process in which you complete a multiple-choice question quiz on the learning materials as an individual (individual readiness assurance test; i-RAT) and subsequently in your team (team readiness assurance test; t-RAT).

Classes follow the readiness assurance process with a range of team application exercises in which you apply the knowledge from the learning materials. You will, for example, make decisions based on a theory or finding of social development. Through writing justifications for their choices, your team will learn how to reliably describe the material in the syllabus with structured and coherent arguments.

CBT and Positive Psychotherapy

This module will focus on how to expand the scopes of traditional problem-solving therapeutic approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (CBT) and Positive Psychotherapy (PPT). Students will explore and understand assessment and treatment of psychological problems. Students will also learn how to re-examine most mental health conditions by shifting the focus from a deficit-based view of psychopathology, where symptoms and deficit are the core of mental illness, to a view where the regulation and dysregulation of strengths assumes a central role in human flourishing. The module will critically analyse advantages and limits of CBT and PPT, and it will offer opportunities to reflect on how to improve the clinical and psychotherapeutic practice.

Understanding Race and Ethnicity

With reference to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and western imperialisms, the module explains how notions of race, racial difference and racial inequality have evolved and become embedded within modern society. The module draws upon postcolonial literature and cultural studies, and wider academic ethnic relations discourse. The module also explores legislation, immigration as well as varied manifestations of race thinking (institutional, cultural and biological forms of racism, for example).

Inequalities and Crime

This module develops a critical perspective on the criminal justice system by showing how the CJS discriminates against different populations. The students will understand how discrimination works across different parts of the CJS and through doing so will develop their critical and analytical abilities. This module is a foundational module for the programme and it fulfils EDI and decolonial objectives for the programme as a whole. It also prepares the students for work opportunities in a CJS which serves a diverse community.

This module explores inequalities within society, including poverty, gender, ethnicity, disability, and access to opportunities, and how such inequalities contribute to understandings of crime. Theory will be used to underpin discussions, with the influence on offending and victimisation being considered. Students will be guided towards relevant legislation, policy and practice that contributes to inequalities in the criminal justice system, as well as be required to identify and interpret trends within crime patterns. Throughout the module, contemporary examples of inequality in the criminal justice will be referred to, with students encouraged to think critically about such situations.

Cognitive Psychology

In this module you will learn about human cognitive processes including how people reason, think and perceive, and how we use language to communicate with others, as well as covering individual differences. You will also gain an understanding of human consciousness and the interaction between emotion and cognitive processes.

This module will give you an appreciation of techniques used to investigate cognitive psychology such as neuroimaging and neuroscientific methods. The practical component will allow understanding into how cognitive psychology is researched experimentally.

Social Psychology

Social psychology is concerned with the description and explanation of human behaviour in situations where people are interacting with others. You will gain a comprehensive and critical understanding of the concepts and methods used in explanations of human behaviour when these are applied to individuals and groups in a social context as well as our understanding of individual difference. The nature of groups will be considered: micro groups (for example friendship or work networks) and macro groups (for example culture).

Substantive content will range from traditional social psychological theories and methods to more critical reflection on the replication crisis in social psychological research. Ethical issues in social psychological research will be a key theme throughout the module programme as will the application of knowledge to our everyday behaviours and how we consider behaviour change in a social world.

Further Research Methods in Psychology

This module aims to facilitate a critical understanding of a range of different empirical research methods in psychology. The objectives are to give you a depth of understanding regarding the advantages, limitations and appropriateness of a variety of quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis methods. Throughout the module you will have the opportunity to work through some of the issues and practicalities of carrying out and reporting empirical research

Lifespan and Individual Differences

This module critically considers the role of theory/ research in understanding developmental issues and individual differences in infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and later life. You will engage with topics of relevance to contemporary developmental psychology and consider the relationship between developmental psychology and cognate disciplines such as biology and sociology and developmental psychology's explanation of individual differences. Teamwork skills will be developed through a poster presentation.

Psychobiology and Neuroscience

This module examines the psychobiological control of functions such as consciousness, locomotion, emotion, pain, eating and sleep. You will investigate the role of biology in a number of different pathologies including eating disorders, anxiety, schizophrenia, substance abuse and other neurological disorders such as epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease. The module explores how knowledge of the structure and function of the nervous system has given rise to current biological-pharmacological treatments of psychiatric and degenerative pathologies, and explanations of difference.

Psychological Life Skills and Employability

This module is intended to provide you with support, feedback and supervision in an applied setting. This module provides you with a structured opportunity for professional development. The module is defined as a period of work for practical experience as part of an academic programme. This module prepares you to participate with professionals in applying the principles of psychology. It teaches professional standards and helps you to develop personal standards.

Advances in Child Development in Education Contexts

The aim of this module is to explore a range of contemporary theoretical and methodological issues within the field of child development in educational contexts. You will engage with a variety of topics and critically evaluate the contribution that psychological theory and research makes to an understanding of how children's individual differences, personality, behaviour, and thinking develop within this context. The module will provide the opportunity for developing research skills and presentation skills.

Advanced Issues in Neuropsychology

The aim of this module is to provide you with advanced level understanding of topics in neuropsychology. You will learn about the link between brain function, brain anatomy and behaviour. There will also be a strong focus in this module on techniques used by neuropsychologists to investigate the brain and its functioning. We will look at neurodevelopment, brain damage and its resulting consequences, recovery and approach to treatments. Ethical issues and individual differences will be discussed.

Clinical Psychology and Mental Health

The objectives of this module are to foster a critical appraisal of clinical psychology as a discipline interested in promoting people's mental health and relieving mental distress. Students will learn about a variety of clinical approaches (e.g., behavioural, cognitive, psychodynamic, positive, and humanistic), used to provide a conceptualisation, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of various mental health conditions (e.g., anxiety, depression, psychosis, substance abuse etc.). Diagnostic criteria will be described and clinical research, theory and practice will be reviewed to improve the understanding of the factors impacting on people's mental health and the most promising treatments for mental distress.

Forensic Psychology

This module enables you to explore the concept of 'crime', who commits crime, assessment and treatment of criminal behaviour, legal psychology and psychology and the courts. It focuses upon psychological approaches and principles and the module will enable you to critically evaluate how psychology relates to crime, the criminal justice system and the judicial process.

The Psychology of Health and Eating

The aim of this module is to familiarise you with contemporary theoretical and methodological issues in health psychology and in the psychology of eating. You will engage with a range of topics within these disciplines and will be given opportunities to consider the relationship between these and cognate disciplines such as biology and sociology. The module will provide the opportunity to develop team work and presentational skills through the team based learning and the researching and creating an audio-visual presentation.

Globalisation, Migration and Refugees

This module aims to:

- Provide a critical awareness of key themes, trends, and debates in the field of global migration and migration policy;

- Provide a range of theoretical perspectives on migration as a global issue, and its relationship with social policy, welfare, social integration, development, human rights, and international politics;

- Develop students' ability to apply critical perspectives and research evidence in the analysis of global issues, challenges, and social policies;

-Develop students' ability to critically engage with knowledge production processes and methodological debates in the field of migration research.

Educational Transitions

Educational Transitions examines historical and contemporary systems of education from a sociological perspective. Education systems are main instruments of socialisation, teaching pupils and students how to navigate a complex social world. They are also, paradoxically, a principle means of improving social mobility even as they tend to reproduce and reinforce social inequalities. These issues have only become more pronounced in the age of digital technologies and the covid-19 pandemic. While examining a range of social-scientific theories on education, students will reflect on the ways in which the structures of education mirror the cultural, social, and political structures of the UK and evaluate, critically, the role that educational structures play in promoting and inhibiting social mobility. They will also examine critical shifts in educational provision - including the increase in distance-learning technologies and the rising popularity of home-schooling and reflect upon how these changes affect the role of education as a socialising agent.

Research Project in Psychology

The aim of the module is the production of a dissertation reporting empirical research, conducted under appropriate supervision. A subordinate aim is the consolidation, application and further development of knowledge and skills in research methods acquired from Stage One and Stage Two level modules. A final aim is the acquisition of in-depth knowledge and understanding of the area of psychology chosen by the student as the focus of the dissertation.