Programme summary for MA Social Enterprise: Health & Social Care

Programme content

Most Masters programmes on social enterprise tend to be generic for the whole sector, with a broad approach. There is no focussed Masters programme that addresses the issue of leadership and management development with a keen understanding of the current policy climate, combining academic and professional approaches, especially for the Health and Social Care sector. This programme is designed to inculcate and nurture an entrepreneurial mindset for the participants and equip them to build entrepreneurial ventures in the emerging third sector in general and the health and social care sector in particular.

This is the programme for people involved in and who want to be involved in the third sector, especially social enterprises, who want to develop leadership and management skills and build and sustain enterprises that deliver public services in a policy environment that supports such public service delivery. The programme aims to develop a keen understanding of the policy environment in the third sector and respond appropriately to the external environment that impacts service delivery through socially entrepreneurial organisational forms that are sustainable. You can build a strong career in the third sector with the skills, knowledge and understanding facilitated by the course and be confident leaders and managers of sustainable social enterprises.

The programme is flexible with intermediate awards (Postgraduate Certificate or Associate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma) so that you can take individual modules or a whole Masters, and study part or full time. There will be the opportunity to take a variety of optional modules, some taught by the core team and others in related fields including NGO management.