Convenors: Jeremy Kendall & Peter Taylor-Gooby
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The MA is a 12 month full-time or 24-month part-time course at an advanced level, taught by leading academics in comparative social policy.

Help with fees:
Bursaries are available from the School and the University to help with the costs of study: Applications for the course and for bursaries may be made online at:
http://www.kent.ac.uk/studying/postgrad/apply/index.html
Closing date for bursary applications: Friday 5 March

The course will give you:
•       Advanced understanding of current debates, theories and concepts relevant to international social policy
•       Country-specific as well as cross-national empirical and theoretical knowledge of current challenges and processes of transformation of welfare systems.
•       An understanding of, and capacity to think critically about, the key policy contributions of, and roles fulfilled by, the State, the market, and civil society as a significant policy actors in welfare
•       Skills in research design and data collection in areas relevant to, or forming part of, social policy.
•       Familiarity with using the primary and secondary data needed to develop research in international social policy

Core modules
•       International Social Policy
•       Design Philosophy and Ethics of Social Enquiry
•       Key issues in international social policy
•       Techniques of data analysis

Optional Modules include :
•       Using Secondary and Qualitative Data
•       Social Science Perspectives on Environmental Issues
•       Social and Political Movements
•       Making and Implementing Health Policy
•       Organized civil society and the third sector
•       Gender and family in a global society
•       International migration: Issues & Perspectives
•       Quantitative Analysis
•       Environmental Politics
•       Urban Sociology
•       Terrorism and Modern Society