Careers and employability
On completion of the programme, your resulting knowledge, skills and attitudes will enable you to put psychological principles into effect in a variety of settings including research, practice and the interface of applied research.
The scientific aspects of the course, including the application of a reasoned approach, problem solving and manipulation of data, provide useful tools for careers in healthcare, law enforcement, finance, IT and research.
This Programme provides a solid grounding for careers in law enforcement, criminal justice, government agencies, education, commercial or industrial sectors.
Forensic and Investigative Psychologists can work in various fields, including:
- Crime analysts and principal crime analysts working for police forces
- National and International Police forces
- Behavioural investigative advisors
- Medium/high security prisons, psychiatric units or hospitals.
- Home Office
- Probation services
- Youth offending teams
- National Crime Agency
- Office for National Statistics
- PhD’s
- Research associates
- Lectureships
- PsychD Clinical Psychology
- Fraud investigators
- Ministry of Defence
- Security Services (MI5, MI6)
- Defence and Science Technology Laboratory
- Expert witness
- Professional consultancy
- Independent Office for Police Conduct
- TiKTok Hate crime policy
- Mobile phone cellsite analyst