MSc Psychology and Health Inequalities

Keele University

MSc Psychology and Health Inequalities

  • Country United Kingdom
  • Course Duration 12 month
  • Course Type Full Time
  • Courses Campus On Campus
  • Language Specification IELTS
  • Program Level Post-Graduate
  • Education Required Undergraduate
  • Admission intake SEP
  • Minimum GPA 70
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Application Charges

Application Fee Tution Fee
Free GBP 17,900

Application Date

Application Start Date Application Closing Date
2023-03-03
2023-08-20

Program Description

On this MSc, you will examine how health and wellbeing, and the care and treatment that adults, children and infants receive can be adversely affected by a wide range of unequitable and often systematic circumstances, on a national and sometimes global scale.With the ultimate goal of reducing health inequalities, you will use psychological research to understand the motivations, behaviour and situational factors that influence health and illness, which often result in greater risk to the most vulnerable members of our society. Sex, ethnicity, disability or social exclusion, such as homelessness, for example, can increase the likelihood of violence, poor diet, smoking and alcoholism.With psychology and health inequalities as its focus, this is a broad-based course that draws on research from psychology, social justice, politics and policy, sociology, models of behaviour change, and other cognitive areas of research. You will develop valuable, transferable skills in analysis and data processing, creative thinking, decision making and communicating with different groups. In doing so, you will learn behaviour changing approaches likely to be of use in a wide range of careers that require some form of public engagement or relationships with patients, not just in health settings, but also government, charity and industry.The MSc Psychology and Health Inequalities can be studied as either a one-year full-time or two-year part-time course, with a September start date. It also possible to study more flexibly part-time on a modular basis, accumulating degree credits by taking individual modules over a period of maximum of five years.You will complete 180 credits to obtain the master’s qualification, comprising eight modules. For full-time students, six core and two optional modules are spread over two semesters (120 credits in total), while the Dissertation is worked on throughout the duration of the course (60 credits). You will agree the topic for your Dissertation with your supervisor during Semester 1. You can choose optional modules from within Psychology or other relevant Schools across the University. For example, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences offers modules relating to mental health or behaviour change for health and wellbeing. Part-time students take 90 credits per year for two years with the dissertation taken in the second year.

Other Requirements

  • This course is open to graduates with a first or upper second-class degree in relevant subjects such as psychology, public health, nursing, sociology, anthropology, etc. or overseas equivalent. Applicants without a degree will be considered on a case-by-case basis, where they can provide evidence of relevant professional experience or other experiential prior learning.
  • For IELTS Waiver : CISCE/CBSE Class XII: 70% or above. All other State Boards Class XII (except Punjab or Mohali School Education Board): 75% or above in English, depending on course.Study should be taught in English. Otherwise IELTS is required.

Extra Notes


* NOTE : The Tuition Fee is subject to change Semester wise, as such for exact Tuition Fee kindly see the Website of the respective University.
* NOTE : Pathways : Students who want to pursue a Graduate Degree through a particular University but are unable to meet the university requirements for the GPA, GRE/GMAT or English Language scores, have to take up an additional academic and language support i.e. pathways in order to ensure the admit and study at the desired University.