Psychology with Positive Education BSc (Hons)

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Overview

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Degree

UCAS code: C824 112 UCAS points
  • BSc (Hons) Psychology with Positive Education, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 3 years
    • Pound 9250 per year
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  • BSc (Hons) Psychology with Positive Education, home applicant, part time

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    • Part time
    • pro-rata full time fee
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What makes this course different

3rd in London

Our Psychology courses rank 3rd in London in the Guardian University Guide 2025.

Community

This course will provide you the opportunity to participate in bespoke events and join an existing professional network

Professional expertise

Our academic team possess a vast amount of knowledge and competence to offer training into positive psychology in educational institutions

Accreditation

BPS accredited

Studying a BPS accredited course will give you the opportunity to gain membership of the society.

Course modules

NOTE: Modules are subject to change. For those studying part time courses the modules may vary.

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Your future career

With a psychology degree, you'll have a range of job options in the allied psychology sector - as well as related educational psychology jobs. This may include roles such as employment specialist, psychological wellbeing practitioner, social prescribing link worker, wellbeing manager or mental health social worker. You could also train to be a psychology teacher, research assistant, or assistant psychologist. Some positions may need extra training. Studying positive psychology and education gives you the knowledge and skills to develop positive education programmes in schools, or other educational settings, or even pursue a different educational psychology career altogether.

Industry links

TBC

Graduate employers

Our psychology graduates have gone on to work for the NHS, local councils, the civil service and education institutions, and found careers within the educational psychology sector.

Job roles

Psychology with Positive Education, like other educational psychology degrees, can lead to roles such as psychology research assistant, working in teaching and education, or in the allied psychology sector.

Explore the different career options you can pursue with this degree and see the median salaries of the sector on our Career Coach portal.

Further study

For those interested in further training and careers in academia, research, clinical, counselling, occupational, or educational psychology, the BSc Psychology degree is essential. Alongside relevant experience, it also allows for specialisation in areas like health psychology, sports psychology, neuropsychology, or neuroscience. You could also stay on at UEL and study our MSc Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP).

Male student standing in front of books in the library
Our degrees in psychology will equip you with the tools and skills you need to investigate human behaviour and to adopt a critical analysis of what you discover. I very much hope you will join us in our search for behavioural insights and for solutions to the problems that face humanity, whether at the individual, group, national, international or global level."
Dr Richard Ralley

Head of Department of Psychological Sciences

How we support your career ambitions

We offer dedicated career support, and further opportunities to thrive, such as volunteering and industry networking. Our courses are created in collaboration with employers and industry to ensure they accurately reflect the real-life practices of your future career and provide you with the essential skills needed. You can focus on building interpersonal skills through group work and benefit from our investment in the latest cutting-edge technologies and facilities.

Career Zone

This digital platform provides you with careers and employability resources, including:

  • Jobs board for internships, placements, graduate opportunities, flexible part-time work 
  • Mentoring programmes for insight with industry experts
  • 1-2-1 career coaching services 
  • Careers workshops and employer events 
  • Learning pathways to gain new skills and industry insight

Mental Wealth programme

Our Professional Fitness and Mental Wealth programme issues you with a Careers Passport to track the skills you've mastered. Some of these are externally validated by corporations like Amazon and Microsoft.

Our Mental Wealth programme

We are careers first

Our teaching methods and geographical location put us right up top:

  • Work-based projects
  • Networking and visits to leading organisations
  • Support in starting a new business
  • London on our doorstep

How you'll learn

When not attending timetabled lectures or workshops, you will be expected to continue learning independently through self-study. This will typically involve skills development through online study, reading journal articles and books, working on individual and group projects and preparing coursework assignments and presentations. Your independent learning is supported by a range of excellent facilities including online and specialist facilities. We have game labs, the library, the full Microsoft Office software, including MS Teams, and Moodle: our Virtual Learning Environment.

Guided independent study

When not attending timetabled lectures or workshops, you will be expected to continue learning independently through self-study. This will typically involve skills development through online study, reading journal articles and books, working on individual and group projects and preparing coursework assignments and presentations. Your independent learning is supported by a range of excellent facilities including online resources, and specialist facilities, such as game labs, the library, the full Microsoft Office software, including MS Teams, and Moodle: our Virtual Learning Environment.

Academic support

Our academic support team provides help in a range of areas - including learning and disability support.

Dedicated personal tutor

When you arrive, we'll introduce you to your personal tutor. This is the member of staff who will provide academic guidance, be a support throughout your time at UEL and who will show you how to make the best use of all the help and resources that we offer.

Workload

Each year you will spend around 300 hours of timetabled learning and teaching activities. These may be lectures, workshops, seminars and individual and group tutorials. Contact hours may vary depending on each module.

Your timetable

Your individualised timetable is normally available to students within 48 hours of enrolment. Whilst we make every effort to ensure timetables are as student-friendly as possible, scheduled teaching can take place on any day of the week between 9.00am and 6.00pm. For undergraduate students, Wednesday afternoons are normally reserved for sports and cultural activities, but there may be occasions when this is not possible. Timetables for part-time students will depend on the modules selected.

Class sizes

Class sizes will vary.

How you'll be assessed

Assessment tasks are spread throughout the year to manage the workload. Methods include group work, exams, essays, presentations, case studies, professional development, and practical activities. All grades count towards your module mark. Details can be found in the student handbook and module guides.

The course includes a work-based learning module at level 5 (Work-based Learning in Psychology) with a minimum of 30 hours of included work experience. Assessment focuses on reflection, connecting to psychology research and theory, and personal/professional development.

Feedback is provided within 15 working days according to UEL's policy.

Campus and facilities

Water Lane, Stratford

Who teaches this course

This course is delivered by School of Childhood and Social Care

The teaching team includes qualified academics, practitioners and industry experts as guest speakers. Full details of the academics will be provided in the student handbook and module guides.

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What our students and staff say

Staff profile image of Dr Miha Constantinescu
This degree is a perfect fit for anyone who is interested in psychology and wellbeing and offers an opportunity to learn about positive psychology coaching
and the chance to learn about interventions used by clinicians to improve our wellbeing."

Miha Constantinescu

Senior lecturer

John Read
I love to help our psychology students understand and normalise emotional distress and relate it to events in their lives, and their social context, rather than think in terms of ‘disorders’ ‘chemical imbalances’ or ‘mental illnesses’. Educating them about the research relating adverse life events to mental health problems is important to me."

John Read

Professor of Clinical Psychology