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Study Details: 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time
Explore the relationship between stress, health, and performance across diverse environments, from corporate offices to space exploration. Understand how humans adapt and thrive in high-pressure settings and maintain longevity in highly demanding occupations.
The psychology of human performance is a unique and dynamic field that plays a crucial role in helping individuals and teams fulfil their potential. On this course, you’ll gain a holistic understanding of human adaptation and functioning in performance domains.
You’ll examine enablers and disablers of human performance and learn about the factors that predict who’ll thrive in extreme conditions, from a biopsychosocial perspective. You’ll explore the concept of “extreme jobs” and their impact on health and performance.
You'll engage in a variety of learning experiences, including lectures, small group tutorials, and workshops, designed to foster holistic and practical understanding. You’ll have the opportunity to hear from guest speakers, including world-renowned individuals working in high-performance domains.
A 2:2 or above in an undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline, such as Psychology, Science, Social Sciences, or Business. Applicants with relevant occupational experience (for example, experience of working in a high-performance domain such as the police or healthcare, or relevant corporate experience in positions such as management, HR, talent-acquisition) will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
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With a postgraduate degree in the Psychology of Human Performance, you will have a diverse range of career prospects and key transferable skills. Interdisciplinary knowledge of the psychological aspects of human performance under pressure, an understanding of the individual challenges that different performance environments present, and knowledge of how to maximise human performance will benefit postgraduates who wish to work in any applied human performance setting. This could include, but is not limited to, corporate settings (particularly management, Human Resources and Talent Acquisition), Education, Healthcare, Defence and Security, Critical Infrastructure (e.g. energy), Aerospace, Third Sector and the Civil Service.
Core modules
Biopsychosocial Foundations of Human Performance
Critical Thinking in Human Performance Research
Human Performance in Demanding Environments
Maximising Human Performance
Synthesis and Independent Project
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