Distinctive features of this programme include:

a) School of Economics and Finance

The background of many of the teaching staff, who as well as being experienced academics, have extensive experience working for, or advising, a number of organisations such as the Council of Economic Advisers to the First Minister, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank (ECB), HM Customs and Inland Revenue and the Calman Commission. Students can expect to have the opportunity to engage with a number of specialist topics including for example experiments in economics, economics of innovation, globalization and international trade, financial economics and law and economics.

b) School of Psychology

A broad foundation across the range of modern scientific psychology. The programme progresses from sub-honours modules providing solid grounding in each of the subject areas of psychology and their methodologies to a choice of advanced Honours modules that provide in depth training exploring the state of the art in specific areas connected to the research expertise of members of the School. Examples include social cognition and evolution, group processes, emotion, visual perception, or memory processes.