Psychology with Human Biology

Examine the biological roots of psychology and behaviour, integrating neuroscience, anatomy, and biochemistry. With hands-on learning, this British Psychological Society accredited degree equips you with transferable skills for careers in psychology, healthcare, and beyond.

Active learning
Learn as you practise, applying your knowledge in practical activities within our psychology experiential learning lab, and building experience from the start.

Real-world experience
Apply your skills and knowledge with an optional placement year, or take part in an international exchange year by studying abroad. This builds your confidence and broadens your experience.

Understand health from all angles
Explore the mind-body connection and how biological systems like the brain, hormones, and genetics shape thoughts and behaviour.

This course is for you if...

• you're interested in the biological basis of behaviour

• you value hands-on learning to understand your subject

• you want the opportunity to engage in research

• you seek a versatile degree to acquire highly transferable skills.

Course Modules

Year 1
In your first year, you'll study the core theories of psychology, including topics like learning, social, developmental, clinical, cognitive, and physiological psychology. You'll begin developing key skills such as research methods, information technology, communication, and critical thinking. These will form a strong foundation for your future career. Alongside this, you’ll explore biochemistry, the human life cycle, genes, organisms, and populations.

Year 2
With a focus on developing research and practical skills, your psychology modules will give you additional hands-on experience in designing and testing your own experiments to explore a range of topics. You also continue to build upon your knowledge of the core areas of psychology, getting to grips with key concepts from across cognitive, developmental, social and clinical psychology. Human biology topics in your second year include fundamental immunology, biochemistry and human physiology.

Year 3
If you choose, you can take an optional work placement after your second year, expanding your knowledge of psychology in a real-world context across the UK. Apply to spend a year honing your skills on a psychological professional/work placement. Gain invaluable experience, make professional contacts and receive a Certificate of Professional/Industrial Placement. Please note some placements may require Occupation Health and/or Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.

Final year
Chart your own path in your fully option-based final year. With 32 different specialist psychology options offering a huge breadth of unique pathways you can follow your aspirations and gain and specialist skills and knowledge for your future.
With the study of morals, psychopharmacology, music and emotion, deception, and animal behaviour to name just a few of the topics, you are free to explore the areas of psychology that interest and benefit you the most. These studies are also augmented by a supervised research project, where you will work alongside one of our world-class research academics on a question of your own choosing. For further details, please refer to our website.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• British Psychological Society