Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience MSc

**Please check the Sheffield Hallam University website for the latest information.**<br/><br/>**This course is moving into one of our new buildings at City campus. Teaching will mainly be delivered at our Collegiate campus until December 2024 while we get our new facilities ready. From January 2025 you will study in brand new facilities at City campus.**<br/><br/>**Course summary**<br/><br/><br/>- Learn generic and specialised skills including learning brain-behaviour relation and underlying neurophysiological mechanisms and theories<br/><br/><br/>- Gain hands-on experience with various techniques including EEG, TMS, fMRI recording and analysis, IQ and other clinical psychometric assessments<br/><br/><br/>Designed for graduates of psychology and other related disciplines (biomedical sciences, neuroscience, psychophysiology), this course introduces you to various topics in cognitive neuroscience, normal and abnormal development of perceptual and higher level cognitive functions across the lifespan.<br/><br/>**How you learn**<br/>All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.<br/><br/>The course provides a robust academic framework across the broad spectrum of neuroscience and promotes the application of critical thinking and evaluative reasoning to the topics of study. This multifaceted learning and teaching approach allows for reflection on your own progress utilising peer and tutor feedback.<br/><br/>You learn through:<br/><br/><br/>- lectures<br/><br/><br/>- workshops<br/><br/><br/>- E-learning<br/><br/><br/>- VLE<br/><br/><br/>- tutorials<br/><br/><br/>- practical workshops<br/><br/><br/>- visiting speakers<br/><br/><br/>- discussion boards<br/><br/><br/>- research forums<br/><br/><br/>- personal progress plans<br/><br/><br/>**Applied learning**<br/>**Live projects**<br/>There is the possibility to gain research experience (subject to availability) such as writing a literature review, data collection and analysis by working on a research project alongside a member of academic staff.<br/><br/>Sheffield Community Brain Injury Rehabilitation Team (SCBIRT) offers occasional visits and other learning opportunities with limited places. <br/><br/>**Field trips**<br/>You have the opportunity to attend workshops run by experts from relevant professions and fields of work. Examples include private clinical consultants, NHS neuropsychologist, teaching staff from the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology course at the University of Sheffield and alumni from our course working in academia and the private sector.