Course Overview

This program provides an exciting opportunity to study adult safeguarding at the Masters's level through the lens of law, ethics, policy, and practice. Applying a variety of perspectives, you will interrogate case law, statutes, and law reform processes, academic research, policy documents, work practices, and professional guidance, in order to develop and enhance your critical and practical awareness of adult safeguarding. The aims of this program are to introduce key principles of interdisciplinary socio-legal research methods and scholarship, facilitate the development of higher-level critical analysis, and develop the students capacity for original thinking in relation to the complex issues arising in socio-legal scholarship.

General Eligibility

Applicants should have a first or second class honors degree in law, social work, healthcare practice (nursing, or medicine), or a related discipline such as criminology, sociology, or politics.

Part Time Work Details

Language Requirement

• IELTS 6.5