Forensic Psychology and Mental Health MSc

This MSc will give you a summary of forensic psychology and mental health care. We offer you a distinctive psychosocial focus, a key component of current Ministry of Justice and Department of Health Policy. This approach helps you to reflect on your own experiences and practice in a way that develops your skills as a clinician, researcher or leader in the field, as well as providing a framework for safe and therapeutic work with offenders.

There will also be the opportunity to apply your in-class learning in an optional placement within a forensic setting. Through this you would learn to work as part of a multidisciplinary team (MDT) within a forensic setting, and how to work in partnership with other organisations and pathways relevant to forensic mental health, such as the criminal justice system, probation services and local authorities.

You’ll produce an original thesis, which can be oriented towards clinical or research knowledge. We’ll encourage you to publish and disseminate this work.

This programme is accredited by the British Psychological Society

Additional costs

Students on this course may need to pay for travel to placements.

This programme develops the core clinical skills you’ll need to work in forensic psychology and mental health in the UK and overseas.

It’s ideal if you are training to be a psychologist or psychiatrist and want to work in forensic services: you not only gain an academic qualification but also the experience of reflecting on your own practice in forensic settings.

It’s also aimed at you if you are interested in becoming a future research leader in forensics: we’ll give you both the methodological skills and the clinical experience to pursue this goal.