Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year
On our Social and Public Policy (MSc) programme you’ll explore the nature, causes and potential solutions to a wide range of pressing social issues - from poverty and inequality to migration, public health, and social justice.
Focusing on policy challenges in Wales, the UK and across the globe, you’ll be encouraged to think critically about how governments and organisations respond to complex social problems. You’ll also consider how those responses shape people’s everyday lives.
Through a combination of theoretical exploration and practical analysis, you’ll develop the knowledge to understand how social and public policies are formed, implemented and evaluated. You’ll interpret social science evidence, assess policy effectiveness and craft evidence-based recommendations.
You’ll be encouraged to challenge conventional thinking, consider policy responses in multiple contexts, and explore innovative solutions to some of today’s most urgent issues.
To be considered for an offer for this programme you will need to meet all of the entry requirements. Your application will not be progressed if the information and evidence listed is not provided.
With your online application you will need to provide:
A copy of your degree certificate and transcripts which show you have achieved a 2:2 honours degree in a relevant subject area such as humanities or social sciences, or an equivalent international degree. If your degree certificate or result is pending, please upload any interim transcripts or provisional certificates.
A copy of your IELTS certificate with an overall score of 6.5 with 6.0 in all subskills, or evidence of an accepted equivalent. Please include the date of your expected test if this qualification is pending. If you have alternative acceptable evidence, such as an undergraduate degree studied in the UK, please supply this in place of an IELTS.
For fees and funding options, please visit website to find out more.
The Social and Public Policy (MSc) programme has been designed to support your career ambitions in policy and academic research, policy design, advocacy and advice. It will be of particular interest if you’re interested in working for social or academic research organisations, departments at different levels of government (e.g. local, Welsh, UK-wide, European), international organisations (e.g. UNICEF), or at community and voluntary sector organisations.
You’ll develop a broad range of vital social science skills – for example, the ability to discuss competing theoretical perspectives with sophistication and apply them to understand real-world social issues; the interpretation of social issues and policy through various conceptual frames, appreciating the distinctiveness of each; and the ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative data.
Core Modules:
Continuity, change and crisis in advanced welfare states
Global Perspectives on Poverty, Precarity, and Welfare
Research Methods for Social and Public Policy Analysis
Developing and Evaluating Interventions in Complex Systems
Critical theories in social science
Citizenship and social policy in a globalising world
Dissertation
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