PB414      One Unit
Advanced Methods for Social Psychology Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

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This course is the advanced methods option for MSc students in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science.  It will:

1. provide an overview of methodological issues for psychological research;
2. cover core skills in research design in Psychology; and
3. provide training in core psychological methods of analysing quantitative and qualitative data.

By the end of the course as a whole, students will be equipped with methodological skills that will enable them to conduct empirical research for their MSc dissertation and in a variety of real world contexts.

This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Autumn Term.

Teaching takes place in the AT.  The course has two components:

• MY421A Qualitative Research Methods (AT)
• MY452A Applied Regression Analysis (AT) 

Students will follow the formative work requirements on the MY course(s) that they take under each stream.

• Bauer, M. and Gaskell, G. (2000) Qualitative researching with text, image and sound - a practical handbook London, Sage
• Breakwell, G. Foot, H. and Gilmour. (1988) Doing Social Psychology: Laboratory and Field Exercises. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Haslam, S.A., & McGarty, C. (2014). Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology. London: Sage.
• Miell, D. and Wetherwell, M. (1998) Doing Social Psychology. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
• Agresti, A and Finlay, B, Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences. A course pack will be available for download online.

Exam (50%), duration: 120 Minutes in the Spring exam period

Course participation (5%)

Peer review / assessment (5%)

Project (40%)