This course will improve your career prospects in the fields of psychology and child development, including educational psychology and clinical psychology. Several students have taken the course to move into jobs as support workers or advisers in educational or third-sector settings or to secure posts as assistant psychologists.
Other students use the research training to progress to PhD research.
This qualification will also help further your career if you are already working with children, for example as an educational practitioner or a speech and language therapist.
Sarah Guthrie, MSc Developmental Psychology Graduate Psychology, PhD Researcher/Student
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