MSc Mental Health Recovery and Social Inclusion (Online)

Our Mental Health Recovery and Social Inclusion postgraduate degrees will provide you with the knowledge and skills to make a difference in the recovery and social inclusion of people experiencing mental distress. The programme aims to:

provide you with the knowledge and skills to work with service users, carers, and agencies, to develop policies and practice and manage mental health work to aid the recovery and social inclusion of people experiencing mental distress
enable you to develop an understanding of national and international processes for, and developments in, the recovery and social inclusion of people experiencing mental distress.
Our student body is made up of people with lived and learned experience of mental health and distress. This creates exciting multi-dimensional conversations about issues such as leadership, participation, collaboration and involvement. You'll experience and understand how the lived and the learned experiences can cohabit in interesting spaces in mental health education and practice to encourage organisational innovation and change. Through learning about recovery and social inclusion, youl be able to adapt approaches and understanding of recovery journeys with a fundamental philosophy about enabling students to bring innovation and change to practice.

All our students choose to study our programme to gain a better understanding of MHRSI and find this learning journey enriching and transformational. Our postgraduates use their knowledge and experience in a variety of careers to further their roles within a range of health and care services. They find that being a postgraduate of MHRSI gives them the expertise so that they can progress within their chosen career.

Our postgraduates have gone on to work in a variety of roles and sectors and have highlighted a few of the career paths, including:

with growing recognition of mental health issues, our postgraduates have gone on to work in a variety of mental health leadership roles for organisations including the NHS and Mind
if you're already working in mental health services the programme will help you develop innovative practice in your work towards a more recovery and inclusive focus and the skills to evaluate them
graduates have gone on to further research study into mental health recovery at our doctoral college.
peer/patient voice is increasingly being represented in roles at all levels in mental health services. This course equips people with lived experience with the learned experience to confidently engage in the discourse and has gone on to various mental health leadership roles.
Additionally, through learning about recovery and social inclusion, you'll hopefully be able to adapt approaches and understanding of your own recovery journey and the journey of loved ones. The underpinning philosophy of this course is to bring innovation and change to practice and we hope that the course will help you be able to work collaboratively with services towards this goal.

Normal entry requirements for the programme are:

you'll be committed to actively engaging in the ideas and values of mental health recovery and appreciate the limitations experienced by social exclusion and stigma
a good first degree or equivalent

Why choose this course?
Unique programme offering: it is the only co-produced postgraduate master’s course in the UK that focuses on mental health recovery and social inclusion, where those with lived experience study alongside service providers of all disciplines in equal numbers. We open up conversations about collaboration and co-production in mental health care.
International best practice: you might think you know about recovery, but we can help you learn more with our international perspective on mental health developments. We have high academic expectations of students which they consistently meet and exceed regardless of entry qualifications.
Teaching excellence: we have an exceptional reputation in the field of recovery and social inclusion supported by experts in the fields of practice and research. As a university, we’ve been awarded Gold in the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework, meaning our teaching is of the highest quality found in the UK.
Inclusive global community: this globally unique and exciting programme was originally co-produced across Europe is now updated and facilitated by people with lived experience of mental distress and trauma, of caring and highly qualified and experienced clinicians and researchers across a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. We are an international learning community with mutual learning and respect at our heart.
Accessible and supportive: we have a widening access and participation approach to admissions to encourage those whose educational trajectory has been interrupted by their mental health challenges to be successful and offer understanding and extensive academic support to those with learning needs. We know that the learning journey is not always a smooth one, just like recovery.
Flexible study: studying 100% online means you can study when and wherever you want anywhere around the globe.