Master of Science - Social Research - Health (B90083)

MSc Social Research — Health, recorded with its source course code, is a methods-focused master’s training researchers for health and social care: qualitative and quantitative methods, research design and ethics, data analysis, and the applied practice of evaluating services and interventions.

Courses of this type are commonly structured as recognised research training, valued as preparation for doctoral study and for research-officer roles in universities, public health teams and policy organisations where methodological competence is the hiring criterion.

The training is genuinely technical — interviewing and thematic analysis alongside statistical methods, with attention to research governance and the ethics of studying vulnerable populations — and the dissertation is a substantial independent study.

The recorded fee of £7,800 is the single most significant anomaly across every batch delivered in this project, sitting roughly £9,000 below comparable master’s courses at the same university, and it should be verified with DMU in writing before the row is published or quoted to any applicant. Plausible explanations include a part-time rate, a research-council funded rate or a domestic-fee entry in the export. If the figure is confirmed as the international rate, the course becomes extraordinary value; if not, the row will need correcting. September entries run across the three recorded cycles. Applicants should also confirm whether the course runs full-time and whether the fee quoted covers the full award, since a figure of this size sometimes indicates a stage or module-based charge rather than a complete programme cost.

Graduates enter health research, evaluation and intelligence roles, and the qualification is standard preparation for PhD applications. The master’s qualifies for the Graduate Route’s 18-month allowance under post-2026 rules, and dependants are excluded on taught postgraduate study.