UCL DIVISION OF PSYCHOLOGY AND LANGUAGE SCIENCES

Obligatory Modules
The degree has five main components:

Transferable skills

PLINGM01: Research Methods and Statistics

PLINGM02: Theoretical Frameworks

PLINGM04: Research Plan

PLINGM99: Research Project

Option Modules

The Theoretical Frameworks module allows students to choose to attend any two modules in the first, and second term from within the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences (subject to availability) and then complete two pieces of cross-disciplinary coursework based on them.

The transferable skills module is chosen from a selection offered by the UCL Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching (CALT), the modules offered vary from year to year, but recent modules offered to students have been:

Investigating Research

Professional Development in Practice

Exploring Postgraduate Writing

Time table
The timetable of each MRes Speech, Language and Cognition student is different, although all students attend core statistics teaching, theoretical frameworks teaching will depend on the options chosen.

Programme Director: Dr Bronwen Evans

Many members of staff from accross the division of Psychology and Language Sciences are involved in the teaching and supervision of MRes Speech, Language and Cognition students.

Funding

Departmental Scholarships

Centre for Human Communication Award for Students on the MRes in Speech, Language and Cognition: One award of £500 is available for the MRes in Speech, Language and Cognition on behalf of the Centre for Human Communication. Candidates holding an offer of admission to UCL for the MRes Speech, Lanuage and Communication by 1 June 2013 will be considered for this award. It is therefore strongly recommended that applications for admission to UCL are submitted as early as possible, and certainly no later than six weeks before the 1 June 2013 scholarship deadline. Please note that this scholarship cannot be held in conjunction with other funding.

UCL Scholarships

For information on general scholarship opportunities, please select the link below:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/scholarships/graduate

Application

Entry Requirements

For the MRes in Speech, Language and Cognition, we normally require a 2.1 BA or BSc in a language-related area such as linguistics, speech sciences, psychology, cognitive science, or a cognate discipline.

Deadline for Applications

Application Process

A large proportion of our students go on to study for a PhD and pursue a career in academia. The MRes is excellent preparation for a PhD degree and we have been very successful at getting candidates onto funded programmes. A number of graduates have returned to clinical practice as specialised speech and language therapists, or have gone on to work as researchers. Others go on to work in other fields ranging from business to education. The skills that the MRes develops - independent research, presentation skills, statistics - are very highly sought after outside academia.

A number of the undergraduate and Masters degree programmes based at Chandler House are participating in an Open Day event on Thursday, 27 June 2013. A drop in session with the Programme Director of MRes Speech, Language and Cognition will take place at 12:30, there will also be building and library tours.

You can view the programme of events here, and register to attend below.