Study Details: MSc 1 year full-time, 2 – 5 years part-time
This programme creates links between social work research and practice in a range of settings. You will be taught the necessary skills to undertake research into social work and social care as practice-based professionals or as postgraduate research students.
This degree helps you acquire vital tools to maximise your work in addressing real issues of concern with policymakers, managers, practitioners and service users in social work and care.
The programme provides core research training in philosophy and research design in the social sciences, along with introductions to, and further approaches in, quantitative and qualitative methods in the social sciences.
An upper second-class honours degree or international equivalent in a relevant social science discipline, such as sociology, social work, social policy, public policy, social welfare, social administration, psychology, economics, political science, business administration and management, public administration and management, gender studies, development studies, health, history, philosophy and law. Or an upper second-class honours degree or international equivalent in any subject AND a master’s degree in Social Work. Or a professional qualification in social work and relevant professional or voluntary experience (minimum 18 months). A professional social work qualification is not a requirement for admission to the programme.
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