Our MSc in Research and Quality Improvement (QI) in Health and Care is your gateway to making a real impact. This cutting-edge, multi-professional programme doesn't just teach you fundamental research skills – it empowers you to apply them directly to transform healthcare outcomes.

What sets this programme apart? Complete personalisation. You'll build essential research knowledge while crafting your own individualised learning pathway through carefully tailored modules that match your career ambitions and specialty interests.

This programme is suitable for professionals with clinical and non-clinical health and care research interests. Whether you're working as a health or care professional or in another health and care research-related role, it’ll enable you to improve outcomes, enhance individuals' well-being, and influence health and care policy

The content of the programme is informed by current capability frameworks (NIHR Clinician Researcher Credentials Framework (2023), NHSE Multi-Professional Practice-based Research Capabilities Framework (2023)) and by internal and external stakeholder engagement. The whole programme is underpinned by analysis and evaluation of the health and care contexts in which research and Quality Improvement take place, consideration of stakeholder and research participant experience, and the design and delivery of effective health and care research and research-related activity. You'll apply your enhanced knowledge, understanding and skills in your own final-year systematic review, small-scale research or Quality Improvement project.

The course is designed to be taken part-time and is available fully online, enabling you to study at a distance whether you're based in the UK or internationally. Flexible access to a full portfolio of modules allows you to complete single modules as standalone Continuous Professional Development (CPD), which you can subsequently import (within 5 years), or enrol directly to undertake the full Master's.