You will benefit from a range of stimulating learning opportunities. Taught by our academic faculty, practitioners, and experts by experience, you’ll also get to work with service-users and carers.

You will work within a supportive study environment. This will help you develop crucial skills for independent and collaborative learning.

Learn from people influencing social care. We work with local social welfare agencies on joint projects. These include development, training, and research initiatives.

Careers

Our graduates have gone on to work in the field of professional social work and are highly sought after by employers, working with children and families and in adult social care.

Many pursue learning through continuing professional development courses and progress to take leadership roles in the profession.

Other awards associated with the Social Work MA

The course may lead to any one of four awards:

• Applied Social Care PGDip, with satisfactory completion of all elements of the course except the placements and dissertation
• Applied Social Care MA, with satisfactory completion of all elements of the course except the placements
• Social Work PGDip, with satisfactory completion of all elements of the course except the dissertation
• Social Work MA, with satisfactory completion of all elements of the course.

Only successful completion of the Social Work MA or PGDip entitles you to apply for registration as a social worker with the professional regulator, Social Work England.