London School of Economics

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Description

Founded in 1964, as a Department of Social Psychology at London School of Economics (LSE), the Institute is now located within the Department of Sociology. The broad project of the Institute of Social Psychology is to understand, through theoretical development and empirical research, the social processes that emerge at the intersection between the individual and wider societal contexts.

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Programmes

1. MSc Health, Community, and Development - This Master of Science (MSc) degree explores the role of community participation and small-scale collective action in public health and health promotion. It pays particular attention to the psycho-social processes underlying the impact of collective action on health, and explores the mechanisms whereby social development approaches have the potential to lead not only to improved health, but also to transformative social action.
   
   Central themes include:
   • strategies for mobilising grassroots communities to participate in health-related community and social development activities;
   • strategies for facilitating the success of such activities;
   • the role of alliances and partnerships in supporting community-level action;
   • the social psychology of participation;
   • factors shaping the likelihood that participation will have any positive impact on individual and community health and well-being;
   • psycho-social determinants of health-related behaviour;
   • the psycho-social and community-level processes that mediate between health policies and interventions on the one hand and the health-related experience and behaviour of individuals on the other; and
   • the implications of social psychological insights for the design and evaluation of participatory health promotion in the fields of public health and social development.
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2. MSc Social and Cultural Psychology - This one-year MSc programme addresses the relations between psychological, social, and cultural phenomena, providing extensive coverage of both theoretical and applied issues. The programme places importance on how societal and cultural processes influence the psychological life of individuals, groups, and institutions.
   
   Some of the potential course offerings include:
   • Contemporary Social and Cultural Psychology
   • Representations, Institutions, and Communities
   • Cognition and Culture
   • Social Representations
   • Social Psychology of Racism, Multiculture, and Resistance
   • Social Psychology of Health Communication
   • Science, Technology, and Resistance
   • The Social Psychology of Economic Life
   • Issues in Social Psychology: Evolutionary Social Psychology
   • Current Communication Research
   • Knowledge, Networks, and Collaborative Work
   • Organisational and Social Decision Making
   • Issues in Organisational and Social Psychology: Organisational Life
   • Corporate Communications
   • Theory and Practice of Organisational Development
   • Psychoanalysis and Communication
   • Gender and Media Representation
   • Globalising Sexualities
   • Cultural Constructions of the Body
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