Overview

You’ll undertake intensive training on advanced statistical methods, which may open doors to many jobs beyond crime and investigations.

• Engage with the Research Centres and Institutes across the University.

• Hear from visiting speakers including experts from around the world, reflecting on real life cases.

• Learn about the full range of contributions that professional psychologists make such as evaluating the validity of suspect or witness accounts, assessing the decision-making processes of detectives or jurors, developing profiling inferences about likely offender characteristics, and geography. Intensive examinations of the variations in criminal behavioural style are a central feature of this course.

The Investigative Psychology (Distance Learning) programme from University of Huddersfield Distance Learning Unit aims to provide in-depth expertise in all aspects of Investigative Psychology. It has a strong research emphasis, helping to equip you with the expertise to conduct your own crime research projects in diverse professional contexts.

Enhance your career

• Previous graduates from courses in this subject area have gone on to work in a variety of roles such as Clinical psychologist, Counselling psychologist, Education mental health practitioner, Educational psychologist, Forensic psychologist, Health psychologist, High intensity therapist, Occupational psychologist, Psychological wellbeing practitioner, Sport and exercise psychologist.