School of Psychology

MSc dissertations and projects

Examples of dissertations on the MSc in Applied Social Psychology

  • Acculturation preferences of minority and majority adolescents in Germany in the context of society and family (published in International Journal of Intercultural Studies)
  • Advertising's effect on male body image (submitted as part of multi-study article for publication)
  • Consumerism and well-being in the UK and India: a comparison of young and middle-aged adults (manuscript in preparation for special issue of Indian Psychology Journal)
  • Dealing with the past and facing the future: collective guilt, shame and forgiveness in post-war Bosnia Herzegovina (published in Political Psychology, and European Journal of Social Psychology.)
  • The effect of model size on advertising effectiveness and women's body-focused anxiety (in press as part of multi-study article in Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology)
  • "Nie wieder: Group-based emotions for ingroup wrongdoing affect attitudes toward unrelated minorities" (to be published in Political Psychology)
  • "Rehabilitating civilian victims of war: an evaluation of a psychosocial intervention in Sierra Leone" (submitted for publication),

Examples of student projects on the MSc in Foundations of Clinical Psychology and Mental Health

  • Developing cognitive interventions to enhance alcohol consumption regulation
  • Exploring the impact of physical exercise upon people diagnosed with Alzeimer's disease
  • Exploring the role of social identity in moderating the stressful effects of trauma in mass emergencies and disasters
  • Exploring the use of technologies to facilitate the care of people with learning disabilities
  • Impression management in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders
  • Needs assessment and audit of local NHS recovery services
  • The development of a computerised cognitive behavioural therapy program for per-natal mental health
  • The develpment of mindfulness-based groupwork for people experiencing long-term depression
  • The effects of social anxiety of face recognition
  • The role of parental speech patterns in the development of childhood behaviour styles
  • "Talking to children about mental illness: a randomised controlled trial to promote positive mental illness literacy in primary school children" (submitted for publication).