Psychosocial Studies

About this course

Psychosocial studies is a discipline that refuses the sharp boundary between psychology and the social world, insisting that the mind and the social environment are always shaping each other and that neither can be fully understood without reference to the other. It draws on psychoanalytic theory, social theory, qualitative research methods, and the humanities to ask how social forces, including power, inequality, race, gender, class, and culture, are lived and felt by individuals, and how inner life, including desire, anxiety, defence, and attachment, is formed through and within social relationships. It is a genuinely interdisciplinary field that tends to attract students who find purely psychological or purely sociological accounts insufficient. At Birkbeck College, this programme is delivered part-time, which reflects Birkbeck's distinctive mission as a university that serves studen

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 45% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 72 / 100Information Technology Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 62 / 100Secretarial and related occupations · 15% of graduatescards →
• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 45 / 100Media Professionals · 10% of graduatescards →

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