Psychology with Education

University of Plymouth

Do you dream of shaping a better, more just world? Educators can inspire lasting change, and this degree equips you to understand the challenges and drive those transformations. By combining psychology-exploring areas like social psychology, cognitive development, health and neuroscience-with education topics such as values in education and safeguarding, you'll gain a unique perspective on how we learn, grow, and thrive. This BPS-accredited degree combines hands-on learning with a focus on real-world applications, allowing you to develop versatile skills for impactful careers in psychology, education, and beyond.Our joint degree provides students with a valuable expertise and understanding in psychology, and the additional critical insight into educational practice, special educational needs, and a reflective look at the values and attitudes embedded in contemporary education. Our BPS accredited degrees provide students with opportunities to peruse further postgraduate qualifications, that can lead to specialized roles like clinical psychologist, educational psychologist, forensic psychologist, or organizational psychologist. The degree also helps students to develop transferable skills, including critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, and data analysis, which forms the basis for many careers beyond psychology. Our hands-on teaching approach, combined with a placement year and research apprentices, offers you valuable real-world experience to give you a competitive advantage in your future professional life.Year 1 In your first year, students study the core theories of psychology, including topics like learning, social, developmental, clinical, cognitive, and physiological psychology. Students also begin developing key skills, such as research methods, information technology, communication, and critical thinking, all of which are crucial for their future career. Students study the core theories of psychology, including topics like learning, social, developmental, clinical, cognitive, and physiological psychology. Students also begin developing key knowledge about research-informed teaching and critical thinking which are crucial for their future career. Year 2 With a focus on developing research and practical skills, the psychology modules will give students additional hands-on experience in designing and testing their own experiments to explore a range of topics. Students also continue to build upon their knowledge of the core areas of psychology, getting to grips with key concepts from across cognitive, developmental, social and clinical psychology. Students will learn about the principles of learning and pedagogy. Year 3 If students choose, they can take an optional work placement after their second year, expanding their knowledge of psychology in a real-world context across the UK. Students undertaking a work placement will receive a Certificate of Professional/Industrial Placement. Final year Students have freedom of choice about the topics they specialise in for their final year. In psychology students study four current topics from a list of sixteen options, taught by world experts in their fields. A typical year’s list includes options in developmental, health, clinical, occupational, cognitive, social and neuropsychology. Students also choose to work on their own research project, supervised by one of our staff. All of our staff are active researchers, and all of our staff teach, unlike other universities. As a large school, students can be confident that we can cover almost every area. In addition, students choose from a diverse range of modules to enhance their expertise in modern educational approaches, wellbeing, gender and sexuality, societal factors or risk in childhood.

School of Psychology