MSc Social Work Research

UK

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What will I learn?

Programme overview

This programme creates links between social work research and practice in a range of settings. You will be taught the necessary skills to undertake research into social work and social care as practice-based professionals or as postgraduate research students.

This degree helps you acquire vital tools to maximise your work in addressing real issues of concern with policy makers, managers, practitioners and service users in social work and care.

The programme offers a combination of academic rigour, up-to-date practice content and relevant and transferable research skills development. Core units will draw on theories and research methods from across the social sciences - including economics, law and philosophy - providing you with a strong foundation to then carry out your own research.

Optional units build on our particular research expertise and will focus on the skills you will require as a social work researcher engaged with a range of multi-disciplinary colleagues. For example, you may choose to study community development programmes in the context of poverty, interventions to tackle domestic violence, or programmes for young offenders. Other optional units focus on the wellbeing of particular groups: children with disabilities, people with severe and long-term mental illness, or asylum seekers and migrants.

We recognise that students will be joining with relevant, albeit varied, experience and there will be opportunities for you to draw on your own experiences as researchers, managers and policy advisers and to share these with other participants on the programme. A co-learning environment also gives you the opportunity to interact and share insights with other students studying research degrees in disability studies, policy research and health and wellbeing.

This programme does not include practical training or lead to a professional qualification in social work.

Careers

The programme emphasises the development of social work and social research and analysis methods, as well as substantive knowledge. Graduates from our MSc Social Work Research can go on to careers as social work and care researchers or analysts, or research commissioners/managers in public or private agencies, both in the UK and internationally.

Potential employers include local or central government departments, voluntary or charitable organisations, national or international non-governmental organisations, or global institutions such as the United Nations.

Which department am I in?

Sociology

Study options

Full Time (1 year)

Tuition fees
£25,000.00 (26,32,133) per year
Fees are subject to an annual review. For programmes that last longer than one year, please budget for up to a 8% increase in fees each year.

This is a fixed fee

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution

Application deadline

24 July 2024

Start date

16 September 2024

Venue

University of Bristol

Beacon House,

Queen’s Road,

Bristol,

BS8 1QU, England

Entry requirements

For international students

An upper second-class honours degree (or equivalent) in a relevant social science discipline, such as sociology, social work, social policy, social welfare, public administration, social administration, psychology, economics, political science, management, history, philosophy and law; or an upper second-class honours degree (or equivalent) in any subject and a master's degree in social work; or a professional qualification in social work and relevant professional or voluntary experience. A professional social work qualification is not a requirement for admission to the programme. IELTS: 6.5 overall with no score below 6.0; TOEFL iBT: 85 overall with R20, L20, S21, W20; Pearson PTE: 67 average with no skill below 60; Cambridge CAE: Grade B, or Grade C with no skill below 168; Cambridge CPE: Grade C, or Level C1; Trinity Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level IV: with pass in all skills; Trinity Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III: with pass in all skills.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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About University of Bristol

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