Social Psychology MSc

The University of Edinburgh

This programme provides an opportunity for intensive advanced training in social psychology. It will teach you how to think as a social psychologist, how to answer questions about social phenomena, and advance your knowledge of the theories, concepts, and research that make up social psychology’s distinctive perspective.Key research areasBuilding on research methods training, you will take topical courses in the core research areas of our department including theoretical and methodological aspects of social psychology.Your MSc culminates in a research dissertation in a core research area, an original, publication-quality piece of research, undertaken in close collaboration with researchers in the relevant group.The staff involved in teaching and supervision include internationally recognised researchers from our Social Psychology group. Staff expertise covers a range of topics, including:perceptions of animalsprejudicecollective actionromantic relationshipscrowd behaviourculture and identitydiscourse and identitiesStaff use a variety of research methods to address their research interests, including both quantitative and qualitative approaches.