Are you interested in how children and young people learn? Do you want to know more about their development, mental health, emotional wellbeing, and how psychology is applied to learning and teaching?

Whether you already work with children and young people or would like to work with them, the BA Psychology with Educational Psychology at Birkbeck will prepare you for a wide range of jobs and career progression. This degree will give you significant skills and understanding in how psychological theory and research can support children more effectively.

Drawing on our expertise in psychological sciences, you will focus on issues of relevance to professionals working with children and young people, including:

- intellectual, social and emotional development

- mental health and wellbeing

- learning and learning difficulties

- communication and relationship building

- special educational needs, inclusion and diversity

- reflective practice.

You will study key issues in developmental and educational psychology, critically analyse theories and research, and explore how these can support your professional practice. Throughout the degree you will be able to select option modules to reflect your individual and professional interests. In your final year you will produce an extended essay on a topic of your choice, under the guidance and supervision of an academic member of staff.

**Highlights**

- This BA Psychology with Educational Psychology will equip you with knowledge and a critical appreciation of contemporary psychological theory and research, and key issues in educational and developmental psychology.

- The degree is unique in its highly applied focus, allowing you to explore how psychological theories (especially in educational psychology) can benefit both teachers and students. It will support you to develop your skills as a professional and to develop strategies and approaches that will be directly applicable in your work with children and young people.

- You will have access to extensive support as part of your lectures and through additional study days and workshops.

- Birkbeck is strongly oriented towards research in psychological sciences and we are home to the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, the Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, the Birkbeck-UCL Centre for Neuroimaging and the Centre for Cognition, Computation and Modelling. We also recently became members of the Bloomsbury Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Statistics.

- We are consistently regarded as one of the top instititutions teaching psychological sciences in the UK. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, and for the third time, we were ranked in the top ten universities in the UK.

**Careers and employability**

Graduates can pursue career paths in psychology, education and research. This degree is suitable for those who want to support children and young people’s learning, development and wellbeing as:

- mentors

- family support workers

- behaviour specialists

- primary or early years teachers.

Please note: this degree does not confer Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) with the British Psychological Society or Qualified Teacher Status. You will need to undertake further training at postgraduate level.

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