MSc - Aims & Objectives - Centre For Investigative Psychology

SUSPENSION OF MSC IN INVESTIGATIVE PSYCHOLOGY UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2004

A note from the Course Director, Professor David Canter.

Despite the great many applications the MSc course still attracts from all over the world, The University of Liverpool has decided to suspend intake on the MSc for the academic year beginning in September 2003.

This is due to staff changes and my taking a much needed 12 month study leave. The year's suspension will give us the opportunity to update the course and enable newly appointed staff to prepare for future teaching.

It is one of the disadvantages of developing such a powerful graduate programme that people who move through it and then join me as colleagues quickly become very attractive to other institutions. It is now the case that there are 9 of my Investigative Psychology graduates, who have taught at Liverpool, who have gone to attractive lecturing posts in universities all over the world. This leaves us with the need to bring on new staff and thereby rejuvenate the whole activity.

The current plan is to make some new teaching appointments in the coming months and to relaunch the course for the start of the academic year in September 2004.

We will therefore start to process applications again in November 2003, but given the normal lag in administrative processes, it may well be February 2004 before we can confidently make offers of places.

Anyone who has applied for entry in September 2003 will be written to at the end of 2003 to see if they still wish to apply for the subsequent year. New applicants should apply in the normal way from November 2003.

David Canter, 21 May 2003