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Social Science and Health Research MSc

Postgraduate

In Newcastle Upon Tyne ()

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

Profile Our Social Science and Health Research MSc provides broad research training in the social sciences, along with research skills related to health, illness and health care. It is for students who want to progress to a PhD or research career in universities or public and private sectors.      

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Subjects

  • IT
  • Social Science
  • Public
  • Public Health
  • Skills and Training

Course programme

Modules Compulsory modules
  • HSS8001 Thinking about Research
  • HSS8002 Information Skills
  • HSS8003 Dissertation Preparation
  • HSS8004 Qualitative Methodology in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  • HSS8005 Introduction to Quantitative Methods
  • HSS8007 An Introduction to the Nature of Explanation and Enquiry
  • HSC8040 Health and Health Care Policy
  • HSC8047 Health and Society
  • HSC8098 Social Science and Health Research Dissertation
Optional modules

You will take a further 20 credits from the following:

  • HSC8027 Health Economics
  • HSC8042 Public Health Intervention
  • HSC8045 Public Health Protection
  • HSC8048 Health Care Quality
  • HSC8052 Further Qualitative Research Methods
  • HSC8054 Further Quantitative Research Methods
  • HSC8055 Introduction to Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal
  • HSC8058 Applications Epidemiology to Public Health
  • HSC8059 Chronic Disease Epidemiology
  • SOC8034 Social Divisions and Inequalities
  • SOC8045 Environment, Environmentalism and Society

Modules may change in your year of entry.


Entry Requirements

A 2:1 honours degree, or international equivalent, preferably in a sociology/policy discipline such as:

  • criminology
  • organisational studies
  • cultural studies
  • media studies
  • film studies
  • human geography
  • history
  • politics

Social Science and Health Research MSc

Price on request