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PhD Psychology

University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

A Ph.D. is the highest academic award for which a student can be registered. This program allows you to explore and pursue a research project built around a substantial piece of work, which has to show evidence of original contribution to knowledge. A full-time Ph.D. is a three-year program of research and culminates in the production of a large-scale piece of written work in the form of a research thesis that should not normally exceed 80,000 to 100,000 words. Completing a Ph.D. can give you a great sense of personal achievement and help you develop a high level of transferable skills that will be useful in your subsequent career, as well as contributing to the development of knowledge in your chosen field. You are expected to work to an approved program of work including appropriate programs of postgraduate study (which may be drawn from parts of existing postgraduate courses, final year degree programs, conferences, seminars, masterclasses, guided reading, or a combination of study methods). You will be appointed a main supervisor who will normally be part of a supervisory team, comprising up to three members to advise and support you on your project.

General Eligibility

The normal level of attainment required for consideration for entry is:

  • a Master's degree from a UK University or equivalent, normally with a classification of merit or distinction, in a discipline appropriate to the proposed programme to be followed, or

  • an upper second class honours degree (2:1) from a UK university in a discipline appropriate to that of the proposed programme to be followed, or

  • appropriate research or professional experience at postgraduate level, which has resulted in published work, written reports or other appropriate evidence of accomplishment.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 What can I research?

There are several research topics available for this degree. See below examples of research areas including an outline of the topics, the supervisor, funding information and eligibility criteria:

  • Arts and Health

  • Arts-based, place-based and environmental research

  • Assessing a typical behaviour using cognitive models

  • Assisted conception and BAME communities

  • Cancer screening behaviour

  • Causes and consequences of individual differences in executive function and attention

  • Cognitive and neural correlates of psychological disorders

  • Counter-Extremism Policy

  • Crime analysis and crime in micro-places

  • Death, dying and bereavement: includes experiences of end-of-life care and responses to death/mortality

  • Decision making and substance abuse

  • Designing future cities to resist terrorist threat

  • Developing Concepts of Gender

  • Deviant sexual expression

  • Experimental and formal investigations of memory, spatial cognition and mental imagery

  • Exploration of the effectiveness of publicity appeals of missing children

  • Eyewitness Memory and Investigative Interviewing in relation to suggestibility.

  • Face recognition

  • Female aggression

  • Female homicide perpetrators and deviant sexual expression

  • Green criminology, environmental and nonhuman animal harm

  • Making sense of mental health difficulties

  • Mass media and popular culture in relation to global conflict and society

  • Mental Health Literacy in UK Policing

  • Mindwandering, cognitive control, secondary analysis of neuroimaging datasets

  • Nature and wellbeing: how people respond to different types of outdoor spaces

  • Nature, the outdoors and well-being

  • Patient, carer and/or professional experiences of end-of-life care (inc bereavement care)

  • Perceptions of Spiritually Competent Practice and Availability and Vulnerability in Healthcare

  • Psychological resilience in a post Covid environment: it’s measurement and development

  • Psychology of fairy/folk tales

  • Psychology of fairy/folk tales

  • Public Perceptions’ of Paedophile Hunter Activities

  • Reducing and/or predicting stigma against mental health difficulties

  • Self-esteem and relationship behaviour

  • Sexuality and Gender identity

  • Spatial Behaviour of Missing Persons

  • Spatial cognition, diagrammatic reasoning and mental imagery

  • Spatial cognition, diagrammatic reasoning and mental imagery.

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.5
  • TOEFL93
  • PTE65
  • Duolingo89
The minimum for IELTS is 6.5 overall with no element lower than 6.0, or equivalent will be considered acceptable.

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