Health psychology is the educational, scientific, and professional contributions of psychology to: understanding the promotion and maintenance of health and the aetiology of illness, the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of physical illness, the study of psychological, social, emotional, and behavioural factors in physical illness, the improvement of the health care system, and formulation of health policy. This masters in health psychology programme aims to train people who will become scientist-practitioners working in a range of health settings. On MSc Health Psychology your acquisition of core and specialist knowledge and understanding is gained through traditional lectures, seminars, tutorials, and interactive workshops. Alongside these teaching methods you will have regular coursework in the form of essays, presentations and practicals involving the study and analysis of original and second-hand data sets. Throughout this masters in health psychology programme you are encouraged to undertake independent reading both to consolidate what is being taught and broaden the knowledge and understanding of particular topics.