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Dr Terri Cole is a Lecturer in Forensic Psychology. She completed her undergraduate BSc (Hons) in Psychology with Criminal Justice from the University of Plymouth in 1999. Within this she undertook a placement year with the National Crime Faculty at Bramshill Police College, where she returned upon graduation, working in the Serious Crime Analysis Section as an Assistant Analyst and then as a Serious Crime Analyst until 2002.
She then held a position as a Behavioural Investigative Adviser (and latterly Senior Behavioural Investigative Adviser), which entailed attending incident rooms and crime scenes advising serious crime investigations throughout the United Kingdom (predominantly stranger murder, rape and serious sexual offences) in relation to offender profiling, behavioural crime scene assessment, offence linkage and prioritisation of persons of interest to the investigations.
Graduate Destinations for Psychology:
Although some psychology graduates become professional psychologists, many others go on work in related fields.
A degree in psychology provides a useful foundation for a wide range of careers and employers.
Employers and Roles include:
- Research/ Academic
- Clinical psychologist
- Counselling psychologist
- Educational psychologist
- Forensic psychologist
- Further education teacher
- Health psychologist
- Occupational psychologist
- Primary care graduate mental health worker
- Sport and exercise psychologist
- Advertising account planner
- Advice worker
- Careers adviser
- Counsellor
- Human resources officer
- Market researcher
- Psychotherapist
Employment Stats:
- Employed (63.8%)
- Further study (15.7%)
- Working and studying (8.4%)
- Unemployed (6.2%)
- Other (5.9%)
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