This MSc Social Work two-year professional programme is designed for people who want to qualify and practise as a professional social worker. The programme leads to a nationally and internationally recognised professional social work qualification and graduates are eligible to register as a qualified social worker with Social Work England.

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 a practice-based professional, a postgraduate research student or a policy-focused professional. This degree will help you acquire vital tools to maximise your work in addressing genuine issues of concern with policymakers, managers, practitioners and service users in social work and social care.

Gain the skills necessary for professional practice as a social worker. Our Social Work Studies course is accredited by the Scottish Social Services Council.

Our MSc Social Care, Health and Wellbeing degree offers an excellent opportunity to gain an advanced understanding of the health and social care sector, as well as areas such as equality, diversity, and collaboration.

This MSc Leadership in Health & Social Care program is designed to help you progress as a healthcare professional. It will give you both the skills and the professional qualifications you need to apply for more senior leadership and management positions within health and social care.

The MSc in Caring for Children and Young People with Complex Needs programme aims to provide you with the knowledge, skills, training and education to work in caring for children and young people with complex health needs in a hospital and community setting. This interdisciplinary MSc is part of a suite of specialist programmes in childhood studies developed in conjunction with the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work.

The Master’s in Health and Social Care Policy at King’s College London blends policy insights with real-world clinical experience. Using global case studies, it teaches integrated thinking on healthcare, social care, and public health. The program runs alongside a course for UK health officials, fostering peer learning.

Transform your career with the Data Science for Health and Social Care (Online Learning) programme, where cutting-edge data science skills meet health and social care challenges. Our curriculum is designed to teach you the critical data science skills necessary for modern health and social care environments. You will gain knowledge of the fundamentals of data science, developing skills that will enable you to interpret, analyze, and interrogate data to make decisions in the health and social care sector.

In the MSc in Anthropology – Visual Anthropology degree program, you work with cultures and societies around the world. You work with a comparative perspective and, through the study of social and cultural conditions, you seek to acquire an understanding of human conditions and the way they change. You gain insight into how people live and interact with each other and into the society's institutions, rules, traditions and technology.

MSc in Youth Justice Designed for those who want to advance their understanding of youth issues, youth offending, and social and criminal justice responses to young people, this program focuses on developing critical analytical skills and enhancing the ability to assess policy and practice against international standards and benchmarks.

The MSc in Applied Psychology: Health Psychology and Counselling is designed to help students to work effectively as health psychologists with patients (and their significant others and caretakers) and other professionals, by acquiring the essential theoretical and empirical knowledge, as well as essential therapeutic counselling skills, emphasizing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), to meet the profession’s demands. The programme covers psychological theories of health and illness, stressing the importance of health promotion, risk prevention and behaviour change. The programme also stresses the importance of empirical evidence, legislation, ethics and related contexts (e.g. social, political) and health-related policies.

The MSc Integrative Counselling & Psychotherapy is a programme structured in order to equip students with all the necessary skills and knowledge to work in the field of psychotherapy as independent counsellors – psychotherapists of the integrative approach. Students are encouraged to develop their understanding of the theoretical, social, cultural and ideological contexts in which their clients perceive, confront and manage problems. They will also consider and analyse major trends and orientations within integrative therapeutic work and develop their ability to identify and use appropriate sources of supervision within counselling practice. The programme has been designed by the University of Derby according to the criteria of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). While it meets BACP requirements it is not accredited by the Association; therefore students can apply for individual accreditation with the BACP, upon course completion.

This fully online degree will develop your skills in critical thinking, statistical modelling, spatial data, data visualisation and science communication to allow you to tackle some of society’s biggest challenges including social justice, environmental justice, and sustainability.

If you’re interested in how digital technologies might reshape how we work, organize, and govern this new, multidisciplinary master track is the right fit for you. If you’re interested in how algorithms (re)shape the way we work, how robotisation is changing relationships among people, or how platform station is influencing our perceptions of organising and organisations, this master programme is for you

The MSc in Applied Psychology: Clinical Psychology and Counselling is designed to help students work effectively as clinical psychologists with clinical individuals and other professionals, by acquiring the essential theoretical and empirical knowledge, as well as essential therapeutic counselling skills, emphasizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), to meet the profession’s demands. The programme covers theories and empirical evidence around mental health, disorders and psychopathology, neuropsychology and psychopharmacology. The programme stresses the understanding of psychological functioning, as well as ways of dealing with psychological dysfunction and disorders, in everyday functionality.