Both programmes provide opportunities to conduct research
alongside our world leading experts within the School.
Both programmes also require students to complete
their own original research disssertation, which is supervised by our excellent academic staff.
Both of these programmes incorporate a variety of
compulsory and optional modules  to build theoretical  and practical knowledge
in your subject area.
The focus within our MSc. in Group Processes is on the social psychological processes and mechanisms
underlying the group and intergroup context.
Our MSc. students on this programme are conducting timely and important research
on a variety of topics such as: collective action
tolerance building, prejudice reduction and attitudes towards immigrants and refugees.
The focus within our Social and Applied MSc is on the social psychological
processes underlying more specialised topics that are of interest to our students.
Our MSc. students on this programme are conducting research
and completing dissertations that integrate social psychology with the health and
clinical domains.
I was attracted to coming to Kent and the School of Psychology here
specifically because I know how expert the lecturers and supervisors are here.
I was really encouraged to do the research that I'm interested in and supported
quite well here by lecturers and my supervisor and the tech staff.
It was really enjoyable because you get to find a supervisor
who's very interested in what you're doing and your research
and really encourages and supports you with that.
The lecturers are really great and really encouraging.
They also offer a lot of extra training that I found really useful recently
and also a few extra seminars that are optional but
they're more informal and it shows you more niche areas
of psychology that you've not really been introduced to
during the module, so that's really useful
cause it sort of inspires you about more research topics
that you could potentially do.
We have outstanding research facilities, all of which are available for MSc. students to conduct
their own research.
These facilities include cutting-edge technology such as EEG labs
virtual reality labratories, eye tracking labs as well as
observational suites, video studios and group interaction labratories.
Most modules within our MSc. programmes are taught through a combination
of lectures, workshops, group discussions and seminars.
All masters students are required to complete our cutting-edge training
in basic and advanced statistics and methods.
Doing it at Kent was quite important for me because  of the
advanced statistics module that they do here which is very beneficial for
doing my PhD. research.
and then actually analysing the data I have now.
It has really helped me because it means that
I can do better research and hopefully create something within
my research that might be able to go into schools and the education system
and actually help reduce mental health stigma.
You get a lot more independence, which is really scary but also really fun!
