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Study Details: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time
This course offers you the opportunity to develop and extend your knowledge and understanding of key social policy issues together with advanced training in research methods.
It aims to improve your knowledge and understanding of the factors which shape social needs and the ways in which different societies have responded to these. This will enhance your research skills and enable you to undertake an independent research project on a topic of your choice.
First-class or Second-class Honours degree, or International equivalent, in Social Policy or related discipline.
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Social policy graduates are employed in a wide range of occupations, including:
business, research and administrative professions
welfare and housing associated professions
caring and personal service occupations
protective services
This course has been designed to enable you to update and extend your knowledge of a wide range of social and welfare issues whilst also developing your practical research skills.
It is particularly well-suited to individuals who wish to develop their methodological expertise in order to undertake research within the social and welfare services or to pursue opportunities for further postgraduate study.
Core modules:
Perspectives on Social Research
Welfare concepts & ideas
Quantitative Methods or Qualitative Methods
Comparative Social Policy & Welfare Systems
Optional modules:
Policy Analysis
Inequalities in Social Policy
Feminism, Gender & Violence
Advanced Project Module
Comparative Public Policy
Health Policy from an International Perspective
The Contexts of Criminal Justice Research
Contemporary Issues in Criminology
International Institutions and Regimes
Contemporary International Relations
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