Psychology & Child Development

Developmental and educational psychology is essential to understanding how children learn, mature, and adapt, to ensure they can succeed in life. It helps us to understand how children learn to navigate our social and cultural world, identify how technology can benefit and compromise healthy development, and support neurodiversity in development and education. Studying Psychology and Child Development at Winchester opens a broad range of career opportunities. We focus on your future from the start and are committed to helping you find and work towards an exciting career. Our approach to your employability is personalised, successful, and unique to us.

Join us to discover the science behind how we think, feel and behave, with an emphasis on child development. You will work with experienced lecturers and applied psychologists in our supportive learning community that puts your future first.

Why study Psychology and Child Development at Winchester

You will learn in a supportive environment with all your teaching provided by a friendly team of experienced lecturers and qualified applied psychologists.

• We favour small group teaching and personal tutoring to help you build your academic confidence and transferable skills.

Your future is at the centre of everything we do. Our ‘Psychology Futures’ employability programme takes you on a transformative journey of self-development that will help you maximise the value of your degree and find a personally meaningful career.

• Developed by our Chartered Occupational Psychologist, our unique, award-winning employability programme is embedded throughout your degree and has been applauded nationally.

You will be joining a vibrant research community. Your lecturers are active researchers and experts in their field. Your course is designed to craft your research skills and you will have unlimited access to all our research labs and software.

• We have extensive research facilities and dedicated laboratories including our labs for social observation, eye-tracking, and electro-encephalography and neurostimulation. Several of our staff have been working closely with local schools and colleges, see for example The Creativity Collaborative.

You will be guided throughout your degree by a tutor who is an expert in developmental psychology and a member of our Childhood and Youth Research Group.

• They will be your personal tutor to provide subject specific guidance and will supervise your final year project on a psychology and child development topic.

You will study specialised modules in psychology and child development in your final year.

• You will learn how psychology applies to child development and the application of psychology to the education system.

Where your degree could take you

Our BSc (Hons) Psychology and Child Development is fully accredited by the British Psychological Society, so your degree could be the first step in your training as a chartered psychologist working in an applied field such as educational, clinical, health, forensic, or occupational psychology. Alternatively, it could take you into a career in teaching, research, social work, marketing, human resources, criminal justice, or any job that involves working with other people.

What our students say

• 100% of students say the course is well organised. • 100% of students say it’s easy to contact teaching staff when they need to. • 100% of students say it is easy to access subject-specific resources (e.g. equipment, facilities, software, collections) when they need to. • 92% of students say staff are good at explaining things.