Advanced Practice MSc at Royal Holloway, University of London

Programme overview

Built upon long-standing partnerships with employment agencies and service user groups, the MSc in Advanced Practice offers post-qualifying education to individuals working in social care or health services. The course provides professionally and academically rigorous postgraduate Social Work training that enables you to critically evaluate theory and utilise research findings in relation to advanced practice and leadership.

Department: Social Work | Duration: 3 years part time | Study mode: part-time | Location: Egham, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Core modules: Conducting Research and Writing for Publication, Supporting and Assessing CPD, Academic Integrity. Optional modules: Advanced Practice in Child Protection and Family Support, Work with Children and Young People with Sexually Harmful Behaviours, Practice Educator Standards (PEPS) 2, Supervision of Professional Practice, Inter-professional Working: Power, Identity and Organisational Culture and others.

Career pathways

For experienced professionals, postgraduate study will assist you in thinking critically and more deeply about your work, its setting and the role that you take within it. This programme will give you knowledge and skills that are transferable to a wide variety of employment opportunities in advanced practice, leadership and management in social care and health services.

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Application information

Entry requirements

UK Bachelor honours degree or equivalent in Social work or other professional qualification in a relevant subject, or Masters level. Applicants will also be considered with a Diploma of Higher Education in Social Work with at least two years practice experience. All applicants must be currently involved in practice or management work within a social care or health setting. Applicants should expect to provide one professional reference in support of their application. English language: IELTS: 6.5 overall. No subscore lower than 6.0.

Domestic applicants: GBP 12,500 a year (2027/28). Full-time rate; standard two-year part-time study is charged at 50% of the full-time fee per study year. Source

International applicants: GBP 25,500 a year (2027/28). Full-time rate; standard two-year part-time study is charged at 50% of the full-time fee per study year. Source

Duration: 3 years part time

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