This optional module focuses on building employability and career management skills.
There are six workshops to help students explore key career paths after Psychology, delivering training on employability skills and career management (for
example, CV development, Writing a cover letter, Interviewing skills,
Assessment centre tests). External speakers from a range of areas will provide an overview of ways to advance your career prospects during your degree and after it finishes.
- Mental health (clinical psychology, health psychology, forensic psychology, etc.)
- Education (teaching, educational psychologist, etc.)
- Research (PhD, research associate, market research, etc.)
- Careers beyond chartered psychology (finance, HR, graduate schemes).
- Forensic
Psychology 2nd year students can enrol on the module to have it credited to their transcripts. They can also attend whichever workshops/ seminars they want to on an ad-hoc basis, but it will appear on your transcript as a completed module only if you attend 4/6 workshops. Sessions are 2hrs 2-4 Bourne Annex 290
Aims
To provide an introduction and critical overview of research methods in cognitive neuroscience with focus on practical experience with their use, including experimental design, analysis, and interpretation.Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be:
- familiar with the main research methods in cognitive neuroscience and understand how they work;
- able to justify their application;
- able to interpret and critically evaluate research based on these methods.
Course Content
Theory, practice, and application of main methods used to study human brain function and behaviour in cognitive neuroscience, such as structural, functional and diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI, fMRI, DWI), electro- and magnetoencelography (EEG/ MEG), trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and behavioural techniques (psychophysics).30/09/2022 Introduction to Occupational and Organisational Psychology MC
07/10/2022 Person-Environment Fit AB
14/10/2022 Planning Communication Campaigns MC
21/10/2022 Public Relations and Organisational Communication JW
28/10/2022 Influencing Styles
SW
Reading Week
11/11/2022 Leadership AB
18/11/2022 Organisational Listening
MC
25/11/2022 Evidence-based decision making in organisations
LM
02/12/2022 Glass Ceiling
KR
9/12/2022 Revision Session MC
Classes will be on Tuesdays 11.00-13.00 in Queens LT
This course covers classical and contemporary approaches in educational psychology. Students will be able to identify key areas of research and theory, and evaluate empirical evidence and theoretical approaches. We will take an applied approach, with a key aim of discussing links between theory/research and educational practice. Each week there will be a moodle activity linked with the lecture.