Our postgraduate teaching programmes include the innovative MSc Health and Social Policy, which CHP members designed and lead, and a PhD in Public Health & Health Policy - PhD students on this programme are important members of the Centre for Health Policy and often contribute to events and blogs.
The MSc Health and Social Policy embeds an MSc Placement Dissertation, offering our students the opportunity to apply their academic skills to real-world situations. Working with placement hosts from a range of public sector, third sector and government organisations, students undertake a placement project and produce an output to be used to support the future work of their hosts.
The Placement module, which was developed specifically for this MSc programme, has worked with a wide range of specialist and expert organisations, including the Health and Social Care ALLIANCE, Quarriers, NHS Education Scotland, the International Futures Forum, and the Students' Health and Welfare Centre's Organization (SHAWCO) at the University of Cape Town.
Our students produce innovative and high quality outputs, including policy reports, policy briefings, podcasts and academic narrative essays, some of which are available here:
- Developing a Picture of Creative Engagement in Anti-Stigma Work – report based on MSc dissertation placement undertaken by Mia Duncan for the Health and Social Care Alliance.
- Community Food Pantries: a combined response to food insecurity and environmental sustainability? A briefing developed for Scottish Government social researchers and policymakers by Emma Slavin.