Centre for Health PolicyOur Teaching

Post-graduate teaching

Our postgraduate teaching programmes include the innovative MSc Health and Social Policy and the MSc Public Health and Social Innovation, 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.

Both MSc Programmes embed 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.

This includes 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.

Short courses

We offer a short course for people looking to carry out community-led research with or for their community, called From Experience to Evidence: Foundations in Peer Research. This course is designed to equip students with the basics of how to design, develop, deliver and share the findings of their research, and is part of our commitment to community-led research.

The course currently runs in-person over 10 weeks. Significant discounts on course fees are available to learners affiliated with a third sector organisation. This course is also ideal for people taking part in academic research projects as peer researchers.

This course is led by the Centre for Health Policy’s Associate Director for Participatory Research, Dr Lisa Garnham. If you have any questions about the course, or would like to enrol in our next session, please contact lisa.garnham@strath.ac.uk.