Overview

Social Psychology course at The University of Edinburgh will teach you how to think as a social psychologist, how to answer questions about social phenomena, and advance your knowledge of the theories, concepts, and research that make up social psychology’s distinctive perspective.

Key research areas

Building on research methods training, you will take topical courses in the core research areas of our department including theoretical and methodological aspects of social psychology.

Your MSc culminates in a research dissertation in a core research area, an original, publication-quality piece of research, undertaken in close collaboration with researchers in the relevant group.

The staff involved in teaching and supervision include internationally recognised researchers from our Social Psychology group. Staff expertise covers a range of topics, including:

perceptions of animals
prejudice
collective action
romantic relationships
crowd behaviour
culture and identity
discourse and identities

Staff use a variety of research methods to address their research interests, including both quantitative and qualitative approaches.

Career opportunities

The programme is primarily designed for students who:

want to pursue a research-oriented career in social psychology
are interested in a wide variety of careers where it is valuable to be able to conduct sound social research, or to develop and evaluate practices and policies relating to social behaviour and thinking

The programme also teaches a broad range of transferable skills applicable to a wide range of modern jobs, such as:

research design
data management and processing
statistical modelling and interpretation
synthesis and communication of complex literature

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Programme Structure

Courses included:

Current Approaches in Social Psychology

Problem-based Social Psychological Research

Psychological Research Skills: General advanced research methodology

Univariate Statistics and Methodology using R: Introduction to R and statistical models

Multivariate Statistics and Methodology using R: Advanced statistical modelling

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Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 12 months
Part-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-14 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-04-30 00:00:00

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Deadline Round 1: 13 November
Deadline Round 2: 2 February
Deadline Round 3: 30 April

Language

English

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100

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Credits

180 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

GPA

Upper Second Class

English requirements

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100

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Other requirements

General requirements

A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent, in psychology or in a related discipline, with at least one advanced course in psychology studied.

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Tuition Fees

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33200 GBP / year

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13700 GBP / year

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Living costs

Edinburgh

United Kingdom

725 - 1167 GBP / month

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Funding

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