Health Humanities and Arts MScR

The programme team has a broad range of professional experience as both health practitioners and as leading researchers in the field of health.

This programme comprises 2 semesters of taught compulsory courses, optional courses and a dissertation.

Most courses are taught through a combination of lectures, seminars and tutorials. The content of seminars and tutorials varies but often consists of presentations, discussions and interactive sessions using action-based learning approaches.

Depending on staff availability, courses may also involve a range of more innovative teaching scenarios such as:

• documenting with film
• acting workshops
• participating in online forums

Students will benefit from the diverse expertise and creative research methods of staff, informed by staff members’ varied disciplinary backgrounds and experiences of working in the field and with different cultures.

The programme is committed to pushing boundaries of ‘traditional’ learning, teaching and research. Imaginative approaches are actively encouraged.

(Revised 29 March 2024 to update programme structure description)

Find out more about compulsory and optional courses

We link to the latest information available. Please note that this may be for a previous academic year and should be considered indicative.

The programme will equip you with knowledge and understanding of:

• theoretical understandings of health and well-being
• approaches linking the creative and the artistic with health and well-being
• debates about research and research evidence in the field of social science research
• transferable interpersonal, conceptual and analytical skills, including critical thinking, self-evaluation and research

Graduates can use this programme’s training and experience to enhance their career in a related profession such as health care, social work, nursing or education.

Increasingly, employers are seeking masters qualifications from applicants for practitioner and management roles and graduates are well positioned for these opportunities.

A wide range of career opportunities and specialities are open to graduates of the MSc Health Humanities & Arts including:

• health policy
• health management
• science and medical journalism
• bioethics
• medical sociology
• medical anthropology
• health advocacy
• art history
• heritage

These entry requirements are for the 2024/25 academic year and requirements for future academic years may differ. Entry requirements for the 2025/26 academic year will be published on 1 Oct 2024.

A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent.

If you do not meet the academic entry requirements, we may still consider your application if you have relevant work experience and submit a Personal Statement demonstrating a high level of motivation, and indicating why you wish to take this particular study route.

International qualifications

Check whether your international qualifications meet our general entry requirements:

• Entry requirements by country

English language requirements

Regardless of your nationality or country of residence, you must demonstrate a level of English language competency at a level that will enable you to succeed in your studies.

English language tests

We accept the following English language qualifications at the grades specified:

• IELTS Academic: total 7.0 with at least 6.5 in each component. We do not accept IELTS One Skill Retake to meet our English language requirements.
• TOEFL-iBT (including Home Edition): total 100 with at least 23 in each component. We do not accept TOEFL MyBest Score to meet our English language requirements.
• C1 Advanced (CAE) / C2 Proficiency (CPE): total 185 with at least 176 in each component.
• Trinity ISE: ISE III with passes in all four components.
• PTE Academic: total 70 with at least 62 in each component.

Your English language qualification must be no more than three and a half years old from the start date of the programme you are applying to study, unless you are using IELTS, TOEFL, Trinity ISE or PTE, in which case it must be no more than two years old.

Degrees taught and assessed in English

We also accept an undergraduate or postgraduate degree that has been taught and assessed in English in a majority English speaking country, as defined by UK Visas and Immigration:

• UKVI list of majority English speaking countries

We also accept a degree that has been taught and assessed in English from a university on our list of approved universities in non-majority English speaking countries (non-MESC).

• Approved universities in non-MESC

If you are not a national of a majority English speaking country, then your degree must be no more than five years old* at the beginning of your programme of study. (*Revised 05 March 2024 to extend degree validity to five years.)

Find out more about our language requirements:

• English language requirements

UK government postgraduate loans

If you live in the UK, you may be able to apply for a postgraduate loan from one of the UK’s governments.

The type and amount of financial support you are eligible for will depend on:

• your programme
• the duration of your studies
• your tuition fee status

Programmes studied on a part-time intermittent basis are not eligible.

• UK government and other external funding

Other funding opportunities

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