Masters Student - Ma Social Policy
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
This course seeks to explore how human well-being can be delivered through a range of public, private and voluntary institutions. Welfare systems and other public institutions face considerable challenges presented by economic crisis such as an ageing population, increasingly flexible forms of work, migration, and shifting ways of family life. Alongside these fiscal and demographic pressures, rising socio-economic inequality and austerity has begun to reverse a number of key social advancements… Show more This course seeks to explore how human well-being can be delivered through a range of public, private and voluntary institutions. Welfare systems and other public institutions face considerable challenges presented by economic crisis such as an ageing population, increasingly flexible forms of work, migration, and shifting ways of family life. Alongside these fiscal and demographic pressures, rising socio-economic inequality and austerity has begun to reverse a number of key social advancements in terms of health and social mobility.The MA Social Policy will address a range of social problems, such as poverty, homelessness, crime and health inequalities. Of key importance is consideration of the underlying causes in order to formulate policy solutions to address specific social problems. It also examines contemporary and comparative developments within social policy to encourage consideration of the shifting nature of welfare arrangements in a broader political, economic and social context, from both a UK and global perspective.Inherent to Social Policy as a field of study is a normative focus that seeks to describe the state of a specific society not only in terms of the fulfilment of human needs, but to consider if our societies should be more effectively and justly organised. A key focus for the MA Social Policy programme will be on the ways in which we might transform our societies to increase human well-being and to promote sustainable forms of living, thus seeking to evaluate alternative forms of social organisation.Key assignments of a standard for publication:- An evaluation of the effectiveness of school-based interventions to reduce suicide ideation and suicide attempts among adolescents.- A comparative analysis of policy responses to child poverty in the United Kingdom and SwedenThesis:- To what extent can social innovation bridge the gap between social policy and the private energy sector as a means to tackle energy poverty? Show less
