Postgraduate Prospectus

This course has a start date in September

The PGDip in Work and Organisational Psychology will be of interest to those in the UK and abroad who wish to develop a career in organisational psychology or related areas such as human-resource management. This course provides an excellent opportunity for postgraduate education for students from a variety of backgrounds interested in this area who do not have the Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and who may not have a psychology background.

The course has been designed to provide you with knowledge of the main areas of occupational psychology, to provide you with good research skills, to cover the relevant social psychological and organisational issues, and to introduce the skills required in practice.

The PGDip in Work and Organisational Psychology utilises a range of teaching methods (including seminars, tutorials, workshops and self-managed working groups). Through our comprehensive programme, which includes workshops on consultancy skills and opportunities for occupational testing BPS levels A and B, you will have the facility to develop practical skills fundamental to your future career development.

• this programme aims to provide you with: a broad knowledge of work and organisational psychology as a professional discipline; the key theoretical and research models used within work and organisational psychology; and the role of the work and organisational psychologist as educator, researcher and practitioner
• the skills to evaluate critically and appraise theories and research within work and organisational psychology
• the knowledge of the main areas of work and organisational psychology
• a grounding in research skills appropriate to future work in an organisational setting 
• a grounding in the social, organisational and consulting skills required in practice
• a grounding in the application skills required for both research and professional practice in the core areas of work and organisational psychology
• the skills to design and conduct independent research within organisational context

Students on the PGDip who successfully complete and pass all their semester 1 assessments may, at the discretion of the exam board, be offered the opportunity to move on to the MSc in Work and Organisational Psychology. This would involve completion of a project in the June-September period, but no extra fees shall be charged.

• The Institute of Work, Health and Organisations (IWHO) is an international postgraduate research school. It is committed to promoting the contribution of applied psychology to occupational and public health and safety and to the development of successful and healthy organisations and communities
• While it shares modules with the MSc in Occupational Psychology and MSc in Management Psychology, the PGDip in Work and Organisational Psychology emphasises the organisational aspects of the discipline and students have more choice over modules
• Teaching within the Institute is informed by current research. We believe that research and teaching should be developed and delivered to help students and staff make a difference in the real world
• In the Research Assessment Exercise 2008, 95% of the Institute's research was rated as 'International' with 70% 'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent' (with Nottingham University Business School)
• The wider School of Psychology was awarded 24/24 in the latest Teaching Quality Assessment, with a commendation for teaching

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