Course details

The goal of the structured PhD programme is to provide a high quality research experience with integrated taught support. Structured support is offered through generic/transferable skills modules and specialist modules to provide students with academic and professionals needed for careers in industry and academia. Under normal circumstances, students who intend to pursue a PhD but who do not already hold a postgraduate qualification in psychology are initially registered to undertake a Master’s degree, with transfer to the Doctoral programme subject to satisfactory progress. It is expected that campus-based postgraduate students will participate in demonstrating and tutoring to undergraduate students.

Entry Requirements

Normally, candidates for research degrees must possess a first class or upper second class honours degree in psychology that qualifies the student for eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartership (GBC) with the British Psychological Society or for Graduate Membership of the Psychological Society of Ireland. In exceptional cases, graduates of cognate disciplines with a first class or upper second class honours degree may be accepted for postgraduate study; such students should be aware that they will require additional qualifications in order to be eligible for GBC or Graduate Membership of the Psychological Society of Ireland.

Applicants must have a recognised primary degree which is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level.

Minimum English language requirements:

  • IELTS: 6.5 minimum overall score
  • TOEFL (Paper based test): 585
  • TOEFL (Internet based test): 95
  • PTE (Pearson): 62

Module

  • ADVANCED CONCEPTS IN OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
  • INNOVATION AND RESEARCH COMMERCIALISATION
  • PEER REVIEW / PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATION 1
  • PRESENTING PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH
  • CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD) 1
  • JOURNAL CLUB 1
  • ADVANCED METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY 1
  • ETHICS IN PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
  • PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE IN POSTGRADUATE TEACHING & LEARNING : TUTORS & DEMONSTRATORS
  • QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
  • STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING
  • COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS FOR RESEARCH
  • INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS (R)
  • INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS (R)
  • PROBABILITY (R)
  • STATISTICAL INFERENCE (R)
  • STATISTICAL COMPUTING WITH R (R)
  • QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
  • NATURE AND SOCIETY
  • PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYABILITY MODULE
  • FINDING INFORMATION FOR YOUR THESIS
  • ACADEMIC WRITING MODULE
  • RESEARCH PRACTICE AND INTEGRITY (OPEN TO STUDENTS WITHIN THE FACULTY OF SCIENCE & ENGINEERING ONLY)
  • SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: MAKING A REAL DIFFERENCE
  • CREATIVE THINKING & PROBLEM SOLVING
  • RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Updated on 08 November, 2015

About Maynooth University

This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.

Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.

  • In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
  • Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.  
  • Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
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