Postgraduate Psychology at Lancaster University

Postgraduate Psychology at Lancaster University Based in a friendly, scenic part of the UK, we offer four excellent MSc courses, and PhD supervision in a range of research areas.

Postgraduate Psychology Degree Courses
Lancaster University’s Psychology Department has been ranked amongst the UK’s leading Psychology Departments. It has an international reputation in research in this discipline and is recognised as a vibrant and stimulating environment in which to undertake Postgraduate study. Applicants can choose from a variety of programmes designed to cater for a wide rang

e of interests, all of which lead to a prestigious, attractive degree qualification. Students can look forward to an excellent level of support during a degree which will give them exceptional transferable skills and content-based knowledge and experience. There are four Psychology MSc programmes in which students explore fascinating areas of psychology while having the opportunity to tailor their learning under expert supervision on a specialist topic in the dissertation. These programmes are suitable for those wishing to gain further qualifications in addition to their Undergraduate degree, for professional advancement in their chosen career, or for research training for PhD study. The Department has a very successful network of MPhil/PhD students who achieve a high standard of research. It welcomes research proposals from applicants who share interests with the many (overlapping) research groupings. Students can expect outstanding support in their progression towards submitting their thesis on time and with great prospects of finding employment opportunities after submission, both in academia and beyond.

PhD Studentship on Early Literacy Acquisition Through Student Interactions With Research-based Game Environments and Sta...
26/03/2021

PhD Studentship on Early Literacy Acquisition Through Student Interactions With Research-based Game Environments and Statistical Time-network Analysis with Prof Kate Cain & Dr Rebecca Killick 🗓️Closing date: 21 April 2021

Project Title: Learning about early literacy acquisition through student interactions with research-based game environments and statistical time-network analysis

08/03/2021

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26/11/2020

See our new paper in PloS one which was based on the work of two wonderful Psychology Employability Placement students Psychology Employability Programme - Lancaster University, who worked as research assistants on the project.

In this paper we show that the demand to make inference about using other's perspective (but not inference about inhibiting one's own perspective) has a sizeable effect on rates of egocentric errors healthy young adults commit in referential communication. Going one step closer to answering why people struggle to take others' perspective!

Wang, J. J., Ciranova, N., Woods, B., & Apperly, I. A. (2020). Why are listeners sometimes (but not always) egocentric? Making inferences about using others’ perspective in referential communication. PloS one, 15(10)

Interested in taking a Masters course in Psychology? Join our webinar next Weds 8 July, 6-7pm, to find out more about th...
01/07/2020

Interested in taking a Masters course in Psychology? Join our webinar next Weds 8 July, 6-7pm, to find out more about the courses & chat with staff/students.

This is a fantastic opportunity to speak with academic leaders of the courses, hear about course content, dissertation topic examples, careers prospects, graduate destinations and opportunities for personal development.

Congratulations! 👏
13/02/2019

Congratulations! 👏

Great blog from one of our students who recently submitted his PhD in our department.
17/11/2018

Great blog from one of our students who recently submitted his PhD in our department.

Last month I submitted my PhD at the Lancaster University. As part of the LuCiD project, I investigated how infants use communicative signals, such as addressing a child by looking at them or

21/09/2018

Save the date! If you are thinking about taking a Masters course, visit our Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday 21st November 2018 between 3pm and 7pm. Further details to be announced.............

30/03/2018
Exciting!
22/03/2018

Exciting!

The Psychology Department will be moving in tomorrow with a range of fascinating activities relating to their research! Fancy becoming a forensic psychologist for the day? Or learning why older people are targeted by scams, and how we can protect them? You can experience these projects and much more from 10.30am to 3.30pm tomorrow!

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