Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: MA: 18 months full-time, 3 years part-time
The challenges of youth and community work are constantly changing and our course has been designed to help you face that change and engage with the policies and ideologies associated with this dynamic area. You may already be working in community services or as part of a youth project, or simply have the desire to understand how to better respond to and deal with the challenges of teaching or social work.
Our course examines contemporary topics such as the London riots, youth crime and alcohol and drug abuse allowing you to understand the impact of government policy on the everyday lives of young people. It highlights the importance of making the global local by studying international issues and applying them to situations closer to home.
You will learn how people can work together to bring about change in their community and explore contrasting conservative, educational and radical approaches to discover the right path for you. You will also gain practical experience and enhance your skills as you bid for funding from a panel of experts, using a live tendering case from the public domain, teaching you all you need to secure the funds for any future projects you may be working on.
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With an in-depth understanding of youth and community issues, you’ll be able to continue your career development in a management role. Graduates from similar subjects have gone on to work with children who have been excluded from school, refugees, the homeless and in hostels. You could consider mentoring, becoming a youth worker or pursuing a role as a case worker for a charity.
You will get an overview of recent Government policy and its impact on professional practice, then critically analyse this in relation to the values and ethics of youth and community development.
You will gain a theoretical, methodological and practical foundation for social research, enabling you to act as a social researcher to resolve practice based problems.
Gain an understanding of the challenges faced by managers and leaders in a complex and changing professional context by understanding the tensions that exist between the values of youth and community work and approaches to management and leadership.
An independent piece of original advanced research that you will be expected to plan, implement and report with guidance from a supervisor.
Explore the various models and approaches to community work, and locate them within a historical, ideological and global context. You will study key theorists and critically analyse their application to a range of practice contexts.
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