Master of Social and Community Leadership

The University of Auckland

This masters degree is designed with curious and committed practitioners in mind. Build skills and knowledge to advance your practice, as well as social and community change. The programme is grounded within a strong social justice framework. You will develop advanced skills and approaches in leadership, social innovation, programme design implementation and evaluation. These will help you to lead, innovate and evaluate for social change. This 180-point programme is flexibly designed to suit those working full-time or part-time in community, government, not-for-profit and social good sectors, as well as graduates from a range of disciplines. The programme is delivered online in 2022 in a series of scheduled workshops in Semester One and Semester Two. It comprises the core courses from the Postgraduate Certificate in Social and Community Leadership, plus a research methods course and a 90-point research thesis project. The thesis project can be focused on a need or opportunity within the community or something relevant to your workplace. The project will give you real-life, in-depth experience as you build strong research, investigative and evaluative abilities. You will learn how to use research to increase and improve social and community leadership.

Faculty of Education and Social Work