Psychology

Psychology courses

Learn from academics at the forefront of research in areas like cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, and neuroscience. Build connections with leading institutions like the Priory Hospital, and Great Ormond Street Hospital. Access state-of-the-art facilities including bioanalytical and virtual reality labs to apply your skills hands-on.

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Why study at MDX

Why study psychology at Middlesex?

Established in 1968, the Department of Psychology at Middlesex is one of the largest providers of psychology courses in the UK. Our strong partnerships with other professional psychology organisations provide you with opportunities for work placements, offering hands-on experience in areas like addiction, cancer screening, health promotion, stroke rehabilitation, mental health, and trauma.

You'll learn from leading researchers in cognitive, neuropsychology and neuroscience, as well as teaching staff who regularly advise on government policy.

Our psychology courses help you develop the knowledge to help you unravel the answers about how people behave, think and feel, leaving you equipped for a career in psychology. 

You'll study in our cutting-edge £36 million Hatchcroft Building, featuring physiology, social observation, and virtual reality.

Our psychology courses are accredited by the British Psychological Society.

Psychology courses at Middlesex

Psychology careers

You'll get the chance to make the most of our career connections during your placement module. Our London location means we work with organisations like Great Ormond Hospital School, St Georges Hospital, the Priory, the Institute of Psychiatry, the UCL Institute of Education, and the Metropolitan Police.

The diverse skills you'll learn in a psychology degree could lead to careers such as:

  • Counsellor
  • Social worker
  • Psychologist
  • Teacher
  • Researcher

You could also work in areas such as law, business management or clinical health.

Why study psychology at Middlesex

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Valuable psychology placements

Kickstart your career with a psychology placement. We work with institutions such as the UCL Institute of Education, Great Ormond Hospital School, St Georges Hospital, the Priory, the Institute of Psychiatry, and the Metropolitan Police.

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Learn from experts

You'll be taught by leading academics who are therapy practitioners and researchers in mental health, psychological wellbeing and trauma.

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Cutting-edge facilities

Gain access to state-of-the-art facilities and specialist equipment including psychophysiology, auditory cognition, and social observation labs, a video editing suite, and a virtual reality laboratory.

Discover how our brains work and how we can change them: Studying psychology at Middlesex video thumbnail

I am Dr. Jonathan Silas and I'm a senior lecturer at Middlesex University in the psychology department. We have research laboratories that are dedicated to running experimental psychology work, facilities for developmental psychology, non -invasive brain stimulation.

We can actually not just measure brain states, we can change the way that the brain is working using these specialised techniques. We run dissertation projects every year and one year we took a group of students and we got a residency at the Science Museum in London.

Being in the museum with the students when it's closed at the beginning so you get to kind of wander around a little bit, also just engaging the public in science and psychology was really exciting. You get to know every single one of the students and it's like group work all the time so you're switching partners on and on again and again so you know every single person you're familiar with them,

you become friends with them, you know their stories, you support each other so that was the most favourite part for me. We were one of the first departments to have an academic employability officer.

Within the first year in the first time we begin to get them thinking about what their trajectory is out of the degree. We offer a sandwich year where students can take a year out fee free and go on a placement and develop in -work employability skills.

We also have a in -year placement option as well. As soon as you leave here you're ready to go into further education or ready to step into the workplace. What I found special about Middlesex University is the course that they offered which is psychology and counselling skills.

I think having a basis in psychology is super helpful if you want to go down a more clinical route but the counselling skills aspect of it is really nice for somebody like myself who wants to go down the psychotherapist route because it kind of gives you a bit of an opening into therapeutic approaches, counselling, different ways that you can help other people.

So many students come to study psychology because they have a vested interest, something that they feel about themselves or their life or the peoples in their life that they feel they want to know more about.

So psychology is just so fascinating because that's what the students are bringing part of themselves to the table and that's what makes it exciting.

Discover how our brains work and how we can change them: Studying psychology at Middlesex

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