Occupational and Organisational Psychology

What you'll learn
This course has a strong emphasis on professional practice and evidence-based management principles.
You will become equipped to operate successfully in the profession by taking a series of core modules.
These include psychological assessment in the workplace, helping organisations to change, research design and methodologies, becoming a professional psychologist and working in a global context.
In addition, you can choose to study optional modules in coaching, counselling and positive psychology alongside the more mainstream occupational psychology modules.
Instead of using exams for assessment, we have opted for a rich mix of techniques to measure your progress, including writing bids, position papers, poster presentations and live group projects.
You will also complete a major piece of original live research for your dissertation. The best of these each year will earn a £250 prize from a global people management business, which also offers one of our regular internships.

What you'll study


MODULES
Core Modules Phase One:
How Organisations Work (15 Credits)
Helping Organisations to Change (15 Credits)
Psychological Assessment in the Workplace (15 Credits)
Research Methods & Dissertation 1 (30 Credits)

Optional Modules Phase One:
Facilitating Group Learning (15 Credits)
Core Counselling Skills & Processes (15 Credits)

Core Modules Phase Two:
Becoming a Professional Psychologist (15 Credits)
Working in a Global Context (15 Credits)
Research Methods & Dissertation 2 (30 Credits)

Optional Modules Phase Two:
Career Coaching Theory/Coaching for Career Development (15 Credits)
Designing & Managing Safety Critical Systems (15 Credits)
Multidimensional Flourishing (15 Credits)
The Skills of Effective Coaching (15 Credits)

How you'll be assessed
Each module is assessed by a challenging and innovative assignment, which captures the kinds of professional work you would be undertaking as an occupational psychologist. All assignments are tackled in small groups, apart from the dissertation, which is an individual piece of work.
We have produced an imaginative range of assessment tasks, which include writing and presenting a client proposal, delivering a group learning workshop, writing a briefing paper, designing and delivering a poster presentation, writing a press release, running a coaching session, writing a research proposal and writing a publication ready journal article.


COURSE SPECIFICATION