Masters Degrees (Educational Neuroscience)

Offered jointly by IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society and Birkbeck, the Master's in Educational Neuroscience will introduce students to the methods and findings from the emerging field of educational neuroscience. Read more

Offered jointly by Birkbeck and UCL's Institute of Education, our Master's degree in educational neuroscience will provide you with experience of both in-depth… Read more

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience explores how the mind changes as children grow up, examining the environmental and biological influences on the developing brain.  You'll be provided with perspectives from developmental cognitive neuroscience and developmental and cognitive psychology, and receive hands-on training in brain imaging methods. Read more

This MSc combines theoretical grounding in development and its disorders with practical training in clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. You will focus on dyslexia, developmental language disorder, autism, ADHD, and dyscalculia. Read more

Neuroscience is beginning to influence education across the world. This programme will provide you with the skills and understanding to interrogate and apply insights arising from neuroscience in education. Read more

The Master’s degree in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology offers the latest developments in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical neuropsychology research and applications. Read more

Medical Neuroscience is the study of the brain and nervous system, examining its structure, function, chemistry, and physiology to better understand medical conditions relating to the nervous system and working as a framework for understanding human behaviour. Read more

Cognitive neuroscience examines the biological processes that help us to understand complex mental functions such as memory, language, emotion, perception, attention and consciousness.  While psychology focuses on understanding the structure of the mind through behavioural experiments, neuroscience provides a window on how these processes occur in the brain. Read more

Our MA Inclusive Special Education (MAISE) gives you an opportunity to develop a greater understanding and critical appreciation of the concepts, approaches and issues related to the education of children and young adults who have a special educational need and/or a disability. Read more

This course is not currently taking applications for September 2024 entry, the next intake will be September 2025. This programme focuses on the areas of pathology and clinical diagnostics and so provides an alternate to a postgraduate landscape dominated by computational and imaging aspects of neuroscience. Read more

The Master's in Cognitive Neuroscience program is a research-intensive course consisting hosted by the  MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit , one of the world's leading centres for cognitive neuroscience. Read more

In the master's programme in Education and Child Studies students can choose a specialisation in one of the sub disciplines of Education and Child Studies. Read more

This course combines psychological theory and application to the study of cognitive functioning, its development through childhood and ageing, and its deficits encountered across disordered populations. Read more

Supervision for MSD Psychology within our Department of Psychology is available in diverse fields of psychology including (but not limited to) cognitive psychology, social and cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and developmental psychology. Read more