MSc Organisational and Social Psychology

About the MSc programme

This programme offers a wide range of choice in optional courses within the Institute and the School so that you can deepen or widen your expertise, and take up the advanced study of particular aspects of organisations.

Recent graduates have gained employment worldwide in consultancy, international enterprises and firms, banks, government, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), or have gone on to obtain PhDs and pursue an academic career.

We will consider applicants with a good first degree in any discipline and a considered interest in the area covered by the MSc.

Please note that it is not the aim of this programme to offer a foundation level training in organisational management skills as might typically be expected from a master's course in business administration.

The programme consists of four course units, including compulsory and optional courses and a research report. A weekly professional seminar series in the Lent term provides students on the programme with the opportunity to debate with professionals, managers and consultants working on a variety of organisational contexts. 

Compulsory courses

(* half unit)

• Organisational Social Psychology
• Fundamental Research Methods for Social Psychology* or another approved methodology course* 
• Research report of 10,000 words on a topic approved by your supervisor

Options

Choose to the value of one and a half units:

• Gender and Media Representation* 
• Cultural Constructions of the Body*
• Social Representations*
• Current Communication Research*
• The Social Psychology of Economic Life*
• Social Psychology of Health Communication*
• Issues in Social Psychology: Evolutionary Social Psychology*
• Knowledge Processes in Organisations*
• Representations, Institutions and Communities*
• Corporate Communications*
• Science, Technology and Resistance*
• Societal Psychology*
• Organisational and Social Decision Making*
• Issues in Organisational and Social Psychology: Organisational Life*
• Psychoanalysis and Communication*
• Cognition and Culture*
• Inter-cultural Relations and Racism*
• Theory and Practice of Organisational Development*
• Consumer Psychology* 
• An approved course or courses to the value of one half unit from any other MSc programme in the School, including additional research methods 

Not all these courses may be available in any one year.