MSc in Developmental Science and Neurodiversity
Birmingham, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
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TUITION FEES
GBP 10,530 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for UK full-time students / £24,750 for International full-time students
Introduction
Change and diversity are essential characteristics of the cognition, behavior, and brains of children, adolescents, and adults. This MSc course will take neurodiversity as a framework for understanding development across the whole human lifespan and how development varies between people.
The course will provide a unique opportunity to gain advanced training in how to characterize diversity and development, and how to study them with the latest research designs and statistical methods.
Neurodiversity refers to variation in brain and cognitive functions including learning, attention, social ability, mood, and sleep. It provides a framework for understanding the factors that influence brain and behavior across the whole population and the whole lifespan; for understanding conditions such as autism and ADHD as a part of that variation; and for addressing the need for variation to be recognized, valued, understood, and accommodated.
You will have opportunities to interact with a wide range of researchers from the University of Birmingham's Centre for Developmental Science, practitioners, and people with lived experience of neurodivergence. Optional modules let you combine your interest in development and diversity with training in advanced data analysis, neuroscience methods, and mental health.
Why study this course?
The course is highly distinctive
Take neurodiversity as the central framework for understanding development and diversity.
Create your pathway
Combine optional modules on clinical psychology and developmental diversity, neuroscience, mental health, and advanced data analysis.
Address challenging questions
Review the perspective that neurodiversity offers on understanding differences between people, and implications for clinical practice, education, and the workplace.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Birmingham Masters Scholarship
Our Birmingham Masters Scholarship offers £2,000 via a tuition fee discount, to support the brightest and best applicants undertaking Masters study at Birmingham during 2024-2025.
Postgraduate Progression Award
Our Postgraduate Progression Awards offer final-year undergraduates at the University of Birmingham a fee discount of £1,500 for postgraduate taught study.
As a Birmingham graduate, we want to support you in taking the next steps in your journey as you continue to study and develop your career. With the familiarity of the University of Birmingham, you will have access to our resources, facilities, and support networks to shape and secure your future. As one of the UK’s Top 15 universities, we can assure you that you will receive our well-being and career support, community, and resources to assist you in your development.
The tuition fee discounts for our progressing undergraduate students are our commitment to you, in appreciation of your choice to stay with us for your postgraduate degree.
Curriculum
You will take a mixture of compulsory and optional modules totaling 180 credits, including a 60-credit supervised research project, leading to a 6,000-word research dissertation. See some of the recent projects undertaken by students on similar courses in the School of Psychology.
Compulsory modules
- Neurodiversity
- Modeling Change and Diversity
- Research methods and skills
- Proposing research in psychology
- MSc Research Project
Optional modules (two from this indicative list)
- Clinical psychology and developmental diversity.
- Data science for behavior and brain I
- Data science for behavior and brain II
- Translational Neuroscience
- Youth Mental Health
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Cognitive Neuroscience
- Applications of Electrophysiological Approaches
Please note: The modules listed on the website for this program are regularly reviewed to ensure they are up-to-date and informed by the latest research and teaching methods. Unless indicated otherwise, the modules listed for this program are for students starting in 2023. On rare occasions, we may need to make unexpected changes to compulsory modules after that date; in this event, we will contact offer holders as soon as possible to inform or consult them as appropriate.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
A wide range of careers is open to students graduating with an MSc in Developmental Science and Neurodiversity. Our students will be excellent candidates for research-related employment in both private and public sector organisations because this MSc develops key skills that are highly attractive to employers, namely analytical and statistical skills, as well as presentation and report writing skills. Knowledge of developmental science and neurodiversity has particular relevance in a variety of careers in clinical psychology and education.
This MSc is also excellent preparation for PhD or other advanced degree positions.
Program Admission Requirements
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