The majority of your teaching timetable will be on campus using our professional facilities. There will also be blended online activities where that extra flexibility works for you. We’ve planned your learning, so it has most benefit for you:
You’ll be on campus for practical work in our psychophysiology laboratory, project and interview rooms and will be working in small groups, which will provide a safe space for you to work with fellow students and tutors.
You’ll be taught online through both live lectures where you can ask questions of tutors and lecturers or through pre-recorded lectures that you can watch at your own time. You will have access to free printing on campus, free key text for study for each module, laptop loan, free cloud storage and key software usage such as Microsoft Office 365, Onedrive, Kortext, SPSS statistics package, which are all available for home, on campus and personal use.
Our specialist psychology laboratories and counselling practice rooms are among the highest-standard in the UK. They give you the opportunity to practice the skills you’ve learnt so far and between your second and third year, we encourage you to take those skills out on a year-long placement. Our degree also offers a work-based final year module in Professional Practicewhich allows you to develop, review, reflect on and improve employment skills within the context of your own discipline and further build on the skills required for your career in Psychology.
We have established great relationships with prestigious institutions including Great Ormond Hospital School, St Georges Hospital, Priory Hospital, Institute of Psychiatry, Institute of Education, University College London, Holloway Prison, and the Metropolitan Police.
Our placements give you the chance to build industry links, apply your knowledge, develop practical skills and will boost your CV and chances of employment when you graduate. We support you in gaining the employment skills you need, alongside the placements, so you graduate feeling confident and ready for the industry.
We are committed to supporting students find the right job and placement for them. MDXWorks is a superb employability and career service available to all students at Middlesex – even as alumni.
We have a strong focus on personal success and student wellbeing built into the curriculum in the first year through our module in Preparing for Academic Success which equips you with skills and knowledge about psychology, and the University, that contribute to academic success, whilst also helping you develop plans for your future development within and beyond your programme of study. In your final year you’ll have the opportunity to choose the Professional Practice Module, which allows you to gain and reflect on employment in the field you are aiming to join and these modules are enhanced throughout by exceptional resources.
Our graduates have been working on the front line, supporting the NHS through the pandemic crisis and our academics continue to put their knowledge into action, finding ways in which we can support society. We’re proud of the work we have done within our community and we are taking what we have learnt forward, to continue to offer you the best education and preparation possible.
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