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This seminar seeks to highlight the challenges that programme teams can face in managing students’ expectations regarding the nature of their degree programme and the work opportunities that it may present. This is an outcome of a range of factors including the cost of higher education, the requirement for post-graduate study to unblock career opportunities, and even misconceptions regarding particular subjects being studied and their associated careers driven by representations of the subject in popular media. This seminar aims to highlight recent challenges in this area, using forensic psychology as a case study.  This subject seems to be particularly affected by ‘the Netflix effect’, where students are presented with glamourous and unrealistic depictions of the area, alongside a series of assumptions regarding the very notion of ‘forensic that appear to confuse students.  Current issues regarding career choices, postgraduate options, and work experience will be discussed.

Hosted by the Teaching and Learning Academy, this event is part of the Teaching Insights series and will be led by Dr Victoria Blinkhorn, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology and Programme Leader for MSc Forensic and Investigative Psychology, School of Psychology, LJMU.