Master of Social Policy Programs

The courses are designed to enable students:

• to understand the social, political and economic contexts of policies
• to research the social dimensions of social policy: race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality and disability.
• to understand social policy as a contested process and apply research skills to a range of organisational contexts.
• to develop the suites of professional skills required for high quality policy development and evaluation.
• to take a strongly East-West comparative perspective which relates social policy to development programs.
• to understand the key bodies of knowledge informing contemporary social policy development: eg social inclusion\exclusion, social capital and globalisation

Master of Social Policy Programs include:

• MSP
• MA (Policy Studies)
• PhD