Students undertake 850 hours of Professional Placements for the Masters of Forensic Psychology degree. Generally, these placements occur in the final year of their course. Placements can be taken as a stream (involving one or more days per week over a number of months) or a block (two, three or more weeks) and all together they will amount to 850 hours or 105 eight-hour working days.

This component of the course is designed to provide the student with the opportunity to develop practical competency in a variety of forensic settings working with a number of experienced practitioners. This competency includes applying skills of a psychologist within different work settings as well as negotiating the role of a psychologist in these settings.

The placement fulfill a requirement for membership of the Australian Psychology Society and for state regstration as a psychologist. Placements are intended to equip students with practical skills that will enable them to undertake tasks in varied areas of forensic psychology.