MSc Child and Family Psychology

The course combines research methods training with the study of children and families, their development, roles and social contexts, in order to prepare students to undertake a research project on a child and family topic of their choice; it challenges students to look critically at the changing nature of childhood and families in the 21st century, within applied, ecological, interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives; students demonstrate understanding of psychological approaches to child and family research questions and undertake a research project supervised by a psychologist accredited by the British Psychological Society.