Masters Degrees (Sexual Exploitation)

The focus is on enhancing practitioners’ understanding of current issues in public protection, and developing their capacity to undertake their own research to underpin evidence-based practice. Read more

Advance your investigative career in law enforcement, finance, health and safety, social services and many other sectors. Develop the skills you need to conduct serious and complex investigations from beginning to end. Read more

Supported by the internationally renowned . Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit. , the master's in Woman and Child Abuse provides a solid grounding in theoretical frameworks, policy and practice approaches. Read more

This MSc focuses on case formulation and the applied aspects of forensic psychology. There is an emphasis on working with different groups, including children/adolescents, violent or sexual offenders and those with forensic mental health concerns. Read more

Our MSc Child Protection and Adult Safeguarding is now more relevant than ever, with recent changes in safeguarding legislation (i.e. Read more

Studying on this course enables you to develop your knowledge and skills to work with children, young people, their families and carers to improve health and wellbeing. Read more

A Master's by Research (MSc) allows you to undertake a one year (full-time) research degree. It contains little or no formal taught component. Read more

The Durham MSW is a 21 month course engaging students with the knowledge, skills and values that underpin social work practice with individuals, groups and communities. Read more

Your own interests will drive the direction of this course as you identify and address the latest theoretical concepts, evidence and research that are relevant to your individual practice. Read more

Criminal offending and the state’s response to it are constantly evolving, and this course explores the latest ideas, thinking and research into the subject. Read more

Our MPhil/PhD research degree programme offers you. Wide variety of research interests. The Institute of Health and Society has a strong mix of academics with a high degree of professional and personal experience, enabling you to get the most out of your programme. Read more

This subject area will help you join and create the next generation of cybercrime research and investigation experts in both professional and academic research fields. Read more

If you’re passionate about countering Cybercrime and terrorism, we want to hear from you! . The Applied Criminal Justice and Criminology programme will be of interest to those who are interested in both cybercrime and cybersecurity more generally as well as those seeking specialist study of terrorism. Read more

This programme can be studied part-time as MA, PGDip or PGCert. The PGDip and PGCert are shorter taught versions of the masters programme. Read more

The Advanced Child Protection MA is a distance learning programme which runs on a part-time basis for two or more years and has been created for experienced professionals. Read more