Psychosocial Studies MSc

Course content

What will you study on the MSc Psychosocial Studies?

You will cover psychoanalytic theory, themes, approaches, debates, and discussions in psychosocial studies, including subjectivity and identity, social transformation, trauma, conflict, and mental health, immigration, community and belonging, contemporary cultural theory, psychoanalytic interpretations of the political sphere. You will also focus on research methods, theoretical approaches, scholarly practice, modes of understanding, interpreting, and being attentive to human individual and collective experience and expression.

What skills will you gain?

You will have an advanced and mature understanding of current concepts, theories and controversies within the field of psychosocial studies, as well as a familiarity with applications of psychoanalytic theory in a comprehensive range of settings, and advanced research skills covering research design, analysis and dissemination. You will also gain evaluative skills, such as critically evaluating interventions in the clinical and social field and high level communication skills, enabling you to communicate effectively with colleagues and clients from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

This module will introduce and allow for investigation of the key psychoanalytic concepts that will be useful to you in questioning and analysing social phenomena and social structures.

This module serves as your introduction to the field of psychosocial studies through established and emergent literature, with a critical focus on sexuality, gender, exclusion and social violence as well as on creative interventions and social movements.

This module introduces interdisciplinary methodologies and modes of understanding, analysing, interpreting, creating and critiquing human experience and its meanings.

This module will explore the main theorisations of trauma, its possible aetiologies and its treatments. You will be encouraged to bring the material covered in direct relation to situations encountered in your daily and/or working lives.

This module is your opportunity to pursue an in-depth, advanced study in an area of psychosocial studies which is of particular importance and interest to you.

You can find more information about this course in the programme specification. Module and programme information is indicative and may be subject to change.