Psychology students....what do you plan to do after your degree?

So if you do a masters in nursing you can go into nursing even with just a undergraduate degree of Psychology.

Hi all, I am hoping to get onto a psychology degree through clearing!

I originally applied for children's nursing and received an offer but after a lot of stressful evenings at the computer I realised it wasn't exactly what I wanted!

I still want to work with children and their families but with more focus on mind and behaviour!

If I get an offer I am hoping to either do a Msc mental health nursing or a Msc Health Psychology!

Fingers crossed



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Another aspiring Clinical Psychologist here.

I've just completed my undergraduate degree, and whilst I was studying I worked as both a health records clerk in a mental health hospital, and a therapy assistant in neurology, both jobs have equipped me with the skills I will need for my new job as an Assistant Psychologist working in pain management. In this role (which I start in a few weeks, working my notice right now) I will be working alongside the neuropsychology department so I'm quite excited to get started (I loved my optional cognitive neuroscience module in my final year). Once I finish in this post I plan to get another assistant post working with a completely different client group (children, older adults or forensic ideally, just depends on what jobs are available), then apply for the clinical doctorate.

Once I qualify I would love to specialise in working with either adults who have been labelled as having a personality disorder, or children who are displaying signs of emerging personality disorders, as I realised I wanted to work towards becoming a psychologist whilst I was working in a personality disorder service, so I would have come full circle if that is where I ended up specialising.



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To apply for a PhD have people generally done a masters first then applied for funding for PhD? Or is it worth trying to apply for funding for both at the same time straight after leaving? I'm doing a mixed degree so ive only done one full year of psychology (im starting third year now) so it seems quite harsh to think of a research proposal in much detail now...

There's no harm in trying to apply straight after your undergrad degree, but don't get your hopes up. It's extremely difficult, you need an exceptional research proposal and usually a fair bit of research experience under your belt before you're even going to be considered.

I know people who had all of the above, graduated with firsts and still got knocked back.

Personally, I just graduated from my undergrad degree in July, and I'm starting a psychology Masters of research (MRes) course in September, which will hopefully stand me in good stead for getting onto a funded PhD place

Where are you doing it? Also, do i need to do a masters in research specifically or would a masters where you get 2 terms taught theory then a dissertation be fine?

Also, is there a student loans equivalent for masters?

Northumbria. I did my undergrad there, the psychology department is really good, and it won out over everywhere else I got offers from in the end because I qualified for 25% discount on my course fees.

I'm not 100% sure, to be honest. I would imagine a taught masters would be fine, but I was advised to do an MRes over an MSc if a PhD was something I wanted to do.

And nope. There are career development loans that you can apply for, but unlike student finance, you start paying them back one month after you've completed your masters.

My family are urging me to go to Northumbria because of the discount haha! It did look really nice though and with out finances, it's either stay at home or go to Northumbria or a couple of others with financial incentive!