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Study Details: full-time 12 months; part-time 24 months.
This programme offers you the opportunity to develop and extend your knowledge and understanding of how key health and social policies and outcomes intersect, while also providing advanced training in research methods.
It aims to improve your knowledge and understanding of the factors which shape people’s health and wellbeing, and the ways in which different societies and governments have intervened to shape these relationships.
This integrative approach to health and social policy is inspired by recent policy efforts to develop whole-of-government and systems approaches that focus on understanding cross-policy links - efforts that are, in turn, informed by evidence demonstrating such approaches are more cost-effective.
There is strong focus on combining postgraduate level research methods training with study of research challenges from a policy perspective. The programme includes opportunities for students to undertake a placement-based dissertation module, examining advocacy and research challenges in partnership with non-governmental organisations (NGO), policy bodies, or academic research teams.
First-class or Second-class Honours degree, or International equivalent, in health or social policy or a related discipline.
The MSc Health & Social Policy is strongly informed by our partnerships with NGOs and policy organisations and is designed to support graduates to develop three potential career paths:
Careers within policy organisations concerned with addressing health and social challenges (e.g. local, devolved and national governments, health policy advisory bodies, and international policy organisations such as the World Health Organization and global health charities).
Careers in organisations using research to influence the policies that impact on people’s health (e.g. large charities/NGOs/non-profit organisations and health policy think tanks). Recent graduates from our social policy programmes have taken Policy Director and Policy Lead roles on in prominent health NGOs.
Research careers, within universities and research consultancies. Graduates can also use this qualification as a platform for undertaking PhD study. The research methods training on the MSc Health & Social Policy is approved by the ESRC via the Scottish Graduate School in Social Sciences.
Core modules:
Health Policy in an International Context
Inequalities in Social Policy
Welfare Concepts & Ideas
Comparative Social Policy & Welfare Systems
Co-Production & Engagement in Health Policy & Practice
Optional modules:
Feminism, Gender & Violence
No Matter How Small: Children's Health Across the British World
Perspectives on Social Research
Food and Health in the West during the 20th Century
Becoming an Effective Health Analyst
Concepts and Theories of Sustainability
Media & Health
Health Systems Performance, Financing & Innovation
Gender, Health and Modern Medicine
Quantitative Methods or Qualitative Methods
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