Postgraduate Prospectus

Course Specific Facilities
Extensive tutorial support is provided to students on this course.

As well as receiving a programme handbook, handbooks will be provided to give you key information on teaching, assessment and resources (e.g. books, journals, websites) for each module.

You will be allocated a personal tutor and a dissertation supervisor.

At the start of your studies, you will be asked to submit a formative (that is, non-assessed) essay, which will be marked and commented upon before you write and submit your assessed essays.

Throughout the academic year, social events are organised allowing staff and students to mix together informally.

This course is supported by work taking place in the International Centre for Public and Social Policy. Based in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, this is a recently established and expanding multidisciplinary centre of research and postgraduate teaching.

The Centre brings together academics from within the University and other universities as a focus for teaching and research in the fields of social policy, public policy, public management and public administration.

Its staff are dedicated researchers engaged in projects for a range of UK and international public bodies seeking to inform and improve practice in public service, devoted academics that publish extensively, and committed teachers passionate about public policy and administration.