MSc Investigative Psychology

This exciting course currently offers intensive training on advanced statistical methods, which may open doors to many jobs beyond crime and investigations. The course offers you the opportunity to engage with Centres within the Institute for Research in Citizenship and Applied Human Sciences (IAS). During your studies you will hear from visiting speakers including experts from around the world and police officers will talk about real-life cases. The course is currently accredited by the British Psychological Society and recognized as the first step towards status as a Chartered Forensic Psychologist in the UK for students who have Graduate Basis for Chartership. Investigative psychology is the systematic science that developed out of early €˜offender profiling contributions by psychologists and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to police investigations and court cases. In recent years this sub-discipline has become an increasingly dominant area of forensic psychology.