Social Science and Health - MSc

About the course

1 year full time/2 years part time

You'll gain skills to do work in health and social science related research and teaching or develop your health related career in the public, private or voluntary sector.

Entry requirements

Minimum 2:1 honours degree or an equivalent professional qualification or relevant work experience.

English language requirements for overseas students

IELTS 7.0 (with no less than 6.5 in each part), or TOEFL 100 (iBT), or equivalent

Entry requirements for international students 

Core modules

• Health and Social Justice
• Contemporary Health Psychology
• Sociology of Health and Illness
• Introduction to Research Methods

Optional modules

• Gender Relations, Health and Health Care
• Introduction to Health Economics
• Introduction to Psycho-social Research Practice
• Introduction to Statistics and Critical Appraisal
• Global Governance
• Advanced Political Analysis
• Governance and Public Policy
• Development Politics
• Methods of Sociological Research: the research process
• Methods of Sociological Research: philosophy of social science

Teaching

• Lectures
• Seminars
• Tutorials
• Enquiry-based learning

Assessment

• Coursework
• Presentations
• Enquiry-based workshops
• Project work

Fees and funding

Financial information for postgraduate taught courses

Any questions?

If you'd like to know more about any aspect of our courses, contact us:

Teaching Support Unit
E: scharrtu@sheffield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)114 222 5454

Your career

Our courses help you develop the skills and knowledge you need to understand and improve health services. We offer postgraduate study programmes for health and social care professionals, managers and those wanting a career in health services research.

Our graduates go on to positions in health services management and health and social care, and to further clinical training or academic research.

About us

We employ around 200 staff and attract £6 million per year in external support. Our staff are active in their research. This means that what we teach you is based on current findings. We have experts in health economics, public health sciences, the sociology of health, health psychology, decision analysis, management sciences, epidemiology, medical statistics and information science.

Our programmes are popular with students from all over the world. We currently have over 28 different nationalities of students enrolled on our courses.

Facilities

We have purpose-built executive teaching facilities for our students. You'll have 24/7 access to library and computing facilities. We provide specialist information and library services in our information resources section.

Apply now

You can apply for postgraduate study using our Postgraduate Online Application Form. It is a quick and easy process.

Postgraduate Online Application Form