Psychology conversion masters

[Christmascookiesmmmm]

Hi! Perhaps it’s my yearly january career crisis?! But thinking of doing a conversion course in psychology, I currently work as a music teacher and love it but have always been interested in psychology, did A level, then 2 psych modules at uni including research based one and my final major dissertation was very psychology based as it was about autism and music, so I read a lot of psychology articles! Also did maths a level with statistics module although I can’t remember anything about that! I was thinking of then applying for clinical psychology doctorate at Newcastle (I know extremely competitive!!). I just bought a house in Newcastle so I’m pretty tied to the area, so was looking into Northumbria uni for the course. Was thinking it looked really good , BPS credited, can do it part time with just one lectured day per week while still working, and obviously very handy geographically for me but then reading some places it keeps getting put down! Im not really bothered about the prestige as long as the course is well taught and it won’t put me at a disadvantage when applying for doctorates. (Also read somewhere that for conversion courses it doesn’t matter too much about reputation? But obviously it matters that the course is well organised and well taught!) My first degree was a 1st from Durham in music.
If anyone has done this course I’d be really grateful for any advice, or if anyone has any useful info about Northumbria.
I also really want to get some books to start reading to check I’m actually interested before paying ££££s course fees :’( so if anyone has recommendations/ reading lists I’d be super grateful!! Thanks in advance!!

Thanks! Great to hear someone else is considering this too
Do you know which uni would be your first preference?

MMU (for online) and Exeter. But I'd be happy with Plymouth considering I'll study the doctorate there.

Educational psychology is a fabulous career but you don't tend to have the time to develop relationships with children over time. If you want to be directly involved in therapy there are other careers that do that more (camhs for example, speech therapy, play or music therapy, or even specialist teacher). When I became an Ed psych I really missed the chance to build relationships with children. What I do now is very intense and whilst I may be involved with a family for a year or more the actual face to face time with the child is usually just one or two visits, plus planning, consultation, advice, action planning and monitoring. That doesn't mean it isn't really satisfying and I don't make a difference for children; we definitely do (at our best. I wouldn't claim to have solved everything for every child but we try to ameliorate situations).

Thank you for that advice. Much appreciated and actually it doesn't put me off at all - I think I would be very good and that kind of intervention. But I think it does highlight how important it would be to get the correct experience after the MSc.