MSc Professional Studies

Practitioners in health and social care are working in an ever-changing environment, and have a diverse range of demands made upon them in order to meet both employers’ requirements and their own educational needs.

This means that practitioners are often required to take a mix of postgraduate certificates or stand-alone modules that do not fit easily into existing Master’s programmes. This programme is intended to provide flexibility within the choice of modules for practitioners, so that they can use their credits to gain an award.

The MSc Professional Studies programme is intended to:

• Offer a coherent programme of study directly relevant to the work environment of practitioners working in health and social care
• Offer practitioners choices of postgraduate studies in order that they can build a programme relevant to their own and their employers’ needs
• Facilitate practitioners to utilise higher level critical, analytical and reflective skills within academic and practice environments
• Enable advanced practitioners to be cognisant of the holistic nature of health and social care, and to gain comprehensive higher level knowledge, expertise and the individual qualities necessary to work as autonomous, competent practitioners within unpredictable professional environments
• Enable practitioners to innovate and apply contributions to the evidence base of practice, and communicate conclusions clearly
• Continue to develop the practitioners’ skills in collaborative practice and the partnership delivery of care, and to consider the impact of their professional role within the organisation and wider context

Why study Professional Studies?

This programme enables professionals working in health and social care to integrate a range of modules applicable to their workplace into a coherent programme.

Features:

The MSc Professional Studies programme allows for greater flexibility of modules so that practitioners may choose modules from education, practice, management or research. It also allows for a choice of dissertation between a traditional research dissertation and a work based project.

This programme is delivered at Riverside Campus, Chester.