MA PGDip PGCert Evidence Informed Practice

Entry requirements
You will need:
a minimum 2:2 in a policing studies or related social sciences discipline
or
a strong portfolio demonstrating appropriate equivalent skills in the workplace
Additional information
IELTS 6.0 (minimum 5.5 (6.0 in writing) in each component)
Pearson PTE Academic 61 (minimum 59 (61 in writing) in each component for UKVI purposes)
RPL is accepted on this programme
If you have any specific queries, please contact apsadmissions@ljmu.ac.uk

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Employability
Further your career prospects
LJMU has an excellent employability record with 96% (HESA 2018) of our postgraduates in work or further study six months after graduation. Our applied learning techniques and strong industry connections ensure our students are fully prepared for the workplace on graduation and understand how to apply their knowledge in a real world context.
The PgDip is aimed at practitioners already working within or alongside policing or criminal justice agencies.
Through an improved knowledge of key issues and engagement in new research, you will better understand the landscape and challenges facing your role and employer. You will develop new key skills, including dissemination and communication of complex information, and the role of leaders in key public service organisations.

Core modules

Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice

30 credits

This module, designed with ‘in-service’ criminal justice professionals in mind, seeks to develop your knowledge, understanding and ability to critique available research and good/best practice guidance in respect of evidence informed policy and practice. The module aims to:

• develop your critical appreciation and understanding of the capacity of evidence-based research
• examine the contributions research informed knowledge has
• encourage you to think critically about the scope to extend further the role of evidence-based thinking

Methods for Work-Based Research

30 credits

This module, designed with ‘in-service’ policing, probation and criminal justice professionals in mind, seeks to develop your knowledge and understanding of the research methods used in the design, conducting, and delivery of good quality social research. It will enable you to:

• develop the skills required to design and undertake your own original, work-based research project
• develop an advanced and critical knowledge of the key issues that impact on research into criminal justice practice
• generate a critical appreciation of diverse approaches to conducting research, methods of data collection and analysis

Work-Based Research Project

30 credits

This module, designed with ‘in-service’ criminal justice professionals in mind, provides you with the knowledge and skills to plan, implement and critically evaluate your own work-based research projects. It will enable you to:

• design, conduct and deliver a research project explicitly focused on an area of your working practice
• plan and implement an agenda for research in an area of work-based practice
• critically reflect the policy and practice development work that have taken place in the subject area
• document and reflect on the challenges of conducting work-based research and, by its conclusion, produce critical commentary on how the understanding of practice may be meaningfully developed

Applied Research-Informed Evidence – Policing pathway

10 credits

This course, designed with ‘in-service’ criminal justice professionals in mind, aims to develop your research data and direct key messages to academic and practitioner audiences. It aims to:

• provide you with the knowledge, skills and confidence to identify and present the impact of your research activity
• tailor your research findings to academic and practitioner audiences, a process that will involve working together to peer review and discuss generated research data

Optional modules

Delivering Rehabilitation

20 credits

This module critically evaluates, at an advanced level, the role and function of the prison and probation services in relation to the delivery of state punishment and rehabilitation. It aims to:

• critically reflect on the values and principles that underpin the delivery of contemporary penal policy through the creation of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS)
• scrutinise the extent to which contemporary penal policy and practice actually delivers a more systematic approach to the management of offenders

Contemporary Issues in Research-Informed Criminal Justice Practice

20 credits

The module aims to develop your ability to identify good and the best practice in the generation of evidence-informed policy and practice in criminal justice. You will be encouraged to explore the role of evidence-informed practice in fields across the criminal justice sector and propose new directions for practitioner-led research activity to take in the future.

Leadership and the Individual
20 credits

The aim of this module is to examine leadership as a theoretical concept and to interpret different perspectives in terms of personal leadership in various settings and environments within policing and law enforcement. It explores emerging debates relating to leadership and how this discourse impacts on practice within operational spheres in policing and law enforcement.