If you’re interested in how people think and behave at work – and in helping them optimise their wellbeing and performance – this is the course for you. You’ll learn to play a key role in developing knowledge, and to influence best practice and policy in the workplace, both today and in the rapidly changing workplace of the future.

Taught by the School of Psychology and the University of Sussex Business School, you’ll gain valuable skills and knowledge in:

• psychological assessment at work
• learning, training and development
• leadership, engagement and motivation
• wellbeing and work
• organisational design, change and development.

The course will also cover issues relevant to the future of work, bringing you the latest thinking on a range of topics such as digital connectivity and agile working practices, emotions and wellbeing at work, managing work conflict, employing vulnerable groups such as refugees, relational attachment at work, attitudes to diversity, and modern leadership.

On graduation, you’ll be well prepared for professional practice as an occupational or organisational/business psychologist in fields such as:

• in-house in the private sector and the public sector (MI6, military, NHS, emergency services, Government and the Civil Service)
• test-publishing houses
• research consultancies and institutes
• policy think-tanks
• management consultancy
• HR consultancy, and within HR/people/wellbeing departments in organisations
• self-employment.

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION

Accredited against the requirements for the Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) of the British Psychological Society (BPS