Research Methods in Psychology. University of Reading

The programme consists of a majority of compulsory modules in subjects such as research design, theoretical issues for psychologists, data handling, statistics, and qualitative approaches to research. You gain extensive hands-on experience of statistical and other computing applications. Specialist modules allow the discussion, in small group seminars, of research-related issues as they apply to real-life problems encountered in major branches of psychological research (Clinically Motivated Research, Cognition, Developmental Psychology, Perception, Cognitive Neuroscience). A wide variety of assessments are undertaken as the programme unfolds, so that by the six-month point (or at 18 months for part-timers), you are able to apply yourself exclusively to the completion of a piece of original, relevant, publishable research in your chosen field.