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University College Dublin MSc Digital Policy

University College Dublin

MSc Digital Policy

1 up to 2 Years

English

Full time, Part time

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Sep 2025

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Distance Learning, On-Campus

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    About: The MSc Digital Policy focuses on the intersection of digital technology and public policy. This program equips students with the skills to analyze, formulate, and implement policies that address the challenges and opportunities presented by digital advancements. The course covers topics such as data governance, digital rights, and the ethical implications of technology.
    Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue various roles including digital policy analyst, technology consultant, public affairs specialist, or roles in non-profits focused on digital rights and governance. They may work in government agencies, think tanks, or international organizations that shape digital public policy.

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With support from Microsoft Ireland, UCD’s School of Information and Communication Studies has established the Microsoft-UCD Digital Policy Programme with the goal of building digital policy training and capability in Ireland and Europe.

The innovative programme mixes the abstract and the applied with core modules from the School of Information and Communication Studies and optional modules from other Schools in the College of Social Sciences and Law (COSSL) and Computer Science. This programme introduces students to basic concepts and issues in digital policy, giving a historical and critical understanding of how to theorise digital objects and environments by learning to situate them in perspectives such as platform capitalism, governance, data infrastructures, information analytics, interface critique and software studies.

The MSc in Digital Policy is designed to prepare graduates for careers in evaluating, implementing, and studying core topical, theoretical, and methodological issues that arise in digital policy today. The course will take a multi-disciplinary approach to investigate the institutional and public policy dimensions of the prevalence of digital technology, as well as the underlying social conditions (economic, political, and cultural) and public/private sector contexts that give rise to such technologies and their governance.

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