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Child psychology universities/routes

Good afternoon all,

Looking for a bit of advice for my wife. She’s been a teacher for over a decade and now is looking at routes into child psychology (her undergrad was psychology).

Her main problem appears to be potentially our location (South Wales). I was looking at providers for MSC Child Psychology and couldn’t find any within commutable distance, or any that offer distance learning.

I just wanted to ask if anyone had any ideas of potential routes into Child Psychology, or alternatively any universities that I may have missed that are commutable/offer online learning?

Thanks
There isn't a job as a child psychologist - the closest would be doing research around this area (as part of and then after a PhD) or as either a clinical or educational psychologist, both of which require a doctorate

I don't know anything about clinical unis, but Cardiff does educational psych
(edited 5 months ago)
Original post by ML431
Good afternoon all,
Looking for a bit of advice for my wife. She’s been a teacher for over a decade and now is looking at routes into child psychology (her undergrad was psychology).
Her main problem appears to be potentially our location (South Wales). I was looking at providers for MSC Child Psychology and couldn’t find any within commutable distance, or any that offer distance learning.
I just wanted to ask if anyone had any ideas of potential routes into Child Psychology, or alternatively any universities that I may have missed that are commutable/offer online learning?
Thanks

Hi,
I have linked two websites that may be useful, in showing which pathways you can do in regards to becoming a Psychologist that works with children.

Clinical psychologist job profile | BPS
nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/job-profiles/psychologist

I have also left a link below for the UCAS website below, as you will be able to find most, if not all MSc Psychology degrees on there, and you'll be able to filter to show the closest universities that offer the degree to you.
Search - UCAS

I am currently a masters student, although it is MSc Criminology and not Psychology, there is quite a few commuters on the course, as we have relatively little contact time on campus compared to undergraduate degrees. As a lot of the work done is independent. I am not too sure how much it differs to Psychology but I had roughly 6 hours per week on campus in semester 1, 4 hours per week in semester 2, and currently in semester 3 I have zero, as the dissertation is done independently which is supported by a supervisor that I am able to contact over teams/zoom if I don't want to go on campus.

I hope this helps,
Suzan - Student Ambassador

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