Education/Career Opportunities

MSc/Dip Psychology of Individual Differences Programme at the University of Edinburgh - http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/postgrad/msc/ind_diffs

This program provides intensive training across a broad range of topics related to the psychology of individual differences, including personality, subjective well-being, cognitive abilities, emotional intelligence, psychometrics, age-related changes, and individual differences-health links.

Students will learn several advanced approaches to studying these and other topical areas, such as questionnaire design and validation, psychometric analyses, the general linear model, survival analysis, multilevel modelling, and structural equations modelling.

The programme is intended for graduate psychologists or those in cognate disciplines who wish to pursue research in personality, cognitive abilities, health psychology, ageing research, clinical psychology, and behaviour genetics.

We are currently accepting applications to study in the 2009/10 academic year.

Please do not hesitate to contact the programme secretary with any queries:
Miss Toni Noble
+44 (0)131 651 3188
toni.noble@ed.ac.uk

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The School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh

MSc/Dip in the HISTORY & THEORY OF PSYCHOLOGY:

This unique interdisciplinary programme draws upon expertise in History, Philosophy, Psychology and Science Studies to examine the nature of psychological knowledge and its relationship to science and society.

Topics covered include:
- Critical Social Psychology
- History of Madness
- History of Unorthodox Psychology
- Mind, Body and Consciousness
- Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition

The programme is aimed at:
- Psychology graduates interested in the new and growing area of Historical and Conceptual Issues in Psychology
- History, Philosophy and Sociology graduates interested in the significance of psychological knowledge to their own disciplines

It will provide training in methodology appropriate to the discipline concerned and, therefore, a firm basis for further postgraduate (typically PhD) study in any of these disciplines.
No prior experience of historical and theoretical issues in Psychology is assumed.
For more information, visit: http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/postgrad/msc/historyandtheory