Financial Investigation and Digital Intelligence MSc

This course is made up of three stages - Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma and MSc.

Candidates will study three core modules:

A platform that will assist you to systemically and critically assess any form of criminality or victimisation, identifying opportunities for integrated approaches utilising financial and digital information, intelligence and evidence.

Offering critical insight on how to develop financial intelligence as a standardised tool. It will focus on the context of the effective and ethical development, control and sharing of information, intelligence and evidence to support investigations.

Providing insight towards how to develop digital intelligence as a standardised tool. It will offer reflection on contemporary crime and victimisation, deconstruct the problem of 'cybercrime' into pre-existing categories of harm, and apply criminology and victimology insights to policy and practice.

Candidates will study three core modules:

Developing the skills, knowledge and practical expertise to undertake advanced applied research at masters-level. It will provide tuition in qualitative and quantitative research while considering the politics and ethics of research.

Offering critical evaluation of the possibilities and limitations of financial investigation as a standardised tool. It will emphasise professional practice to identify, investigate, confiscate, forfeit or otherwise remediate the proceeds of/for crime.

Offering critical assessment and application of criminology theory to digital investigation as a standardised tool. It will focus on the 'real-world' harm associated with cybercrime, and the use of digital evidence in the context of existing investigatory powers.

Note: Prior to undertaking the Postgraduate Diploma, the Postgraduate Certificate must be completed.

During this triple module, candidates will use their accumulated knowledge and intellectual skills to carry out a systematic inquiry and academically rigorous study of a significant topic of their choice relevant to the field of investigation. Under the supervision of one of our team of specialist researchers and drawing upon our considerable professional investigative experience, candidates will generate a masters-level dissertation that can be used to showcase their skills and interests towards their current or future investigative role and organisation.