Education, Health Promotion and International Development MA

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The MA offers students the opportunity to extend and deepen their understanding of concepts, theories and issues related to international development, education and sustainable ways of promoting health, wellbeing and social justice.

About this degree

Students will:

• build on their existing knowledge to develop new understandings of key concepts and issues in education, health promotion and international development
• appraise and evaluate current policy and practice through evidence-informed analysis
• draw connections between distinct academic disciplines with regard to the promotion of wellbeing and social justice
• investigate and propose sustainable ways of working and
• through conducting a small-scale research study, apply what they have learned to create personally and professionally relevant new knowledge of the field.

Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits.

_{Compulsory modules}

• Education and International Development: Concepts, Theories and Issues
• Promoting Health and Wellbeing: Planning, Practice and Participation

_{Optional modules}

A range of optional modules are available, including those listed below.

We also encourage students to select modules from across the UCL Institute of Education (IOE), subject to availabilty, including those related to education technology, effective learning, social policy, art education. Please discuss your module choices with your personal tutor so that you can build a modular programme relevant to your professional development.

• Education, Conflict and Fragility
• Education and Development in Asia
• Education and Muslim Communities
• Planning for Education and Development
• Gender, Education and Development
• Gender, Sexuality and Education
• Learners, Learning and Teaching in the Context of Education for All
• Children's Rights in Practice
• Theories of Childhood and Society
• Understanding Education Research
• Understanding Research

Visit the UCL Institute of Education website for more information.

_{Dissertation/report}

All students undertake an independent research project which culminates in a dissertation of up to 20,000 words or a report of 10,000 words

Teaching and learning

The programme is taught through a combination of lectures, participatory and interactive groupwork, online learning and individual tutorials. Assessment is through coursework, taking the form of 5,000 word assignments or equivalent, such as a 3,500-word project proposal + 1,500 word conceptual framework. The small-scale research study is assessed by way of a 20,000-word dissertation or 10,000-word report

Fieldwork

Fieldwork is not a compulsory part of the programme. However, students are encouraged to draw from their professional or voluntary experience as well as the ideas encountered during the programme to write critically and cogently for different audiences. The small-scale research study usually takes the form of a combination of desk-based research (a literature review) and fieldwork.

Placement

Placements are not routinely part of the programme. But good links have been established between the programme and UCL’s Volunteering Services Unit (http://uclu.org/services/volunteering-at-uclu). Some students have also taken part in the UCL ChangeMakers programme (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/changemakers). Taking part in these programmes can provide those studying in London with valuable international development-related experience.

Funding

For a comprehensive list of the funding opportunities available at UCL, including funding relevant to your nationality, please visit the Scholarships and Funding website.

Careers

Graduates of this Master's degree have been engaged:

• as policy-makers and advisers in government ministries and departments
• as policy advocates and programme managers in international NGOs and development agencies
• as social research consultants
• as teachers and lecturers in schools, colleges and universities
• as international development consultants
• in doctoral study (either on PhD or EdD programmes).

Why study this degree at UCL?

This unique Master's programme provides students with opportunities to explore and examine the links between three academic and professional fields - education, health promotion and international development. It encourages a consideration of the ways that these fields are both distinctive, yet inter-related, and how evidence-informed practice might best contribute to working across professional boundaries, enhancing wellbeing and advocating for social justice.

Students learn alongside tutors who hold a breadth and depth of expertise in education, health promotion, social research and international development and who have professional experience in national and international contexts. Tutors are active in research on areas related to physical and emotional health and wellbeing, international development, refugees, young people, gender and sexuality, teaching and pedagogy and curriculum development.

The centre has extensive experience and expertise in education-related research and practice in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Themes addressed include equality and human rights, gender, migration, race, health and wellbeing, sexuality, disability, social class, conflict and peacebuilding.

Department: Education, Practice & Society

Applications

Students are advised to apply as early as possible due to competition for places. Those applying for scholarship funding (particularly overseas applicants) should take note of application deadlines.

There is an application processing fee for this programme of £75 for online applications and £100 for paper applications. Further information can be found at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/taught/application.

Who can apply?

This programme welcomes professionals and practitioners from a range of backgrounds in health, education, health promotion, arts and humanities, anthropology, psychology, sociology (and social sciences in general), nursing, medicine, as well as in social development in low- or middle-income countries. The programme encourages applications from those with substantial experience in low- and middle-income countries, as well as those with minimal experience in these country settings but who would like to extend and deepen their understanding of research, policy and practice in these contexts

Application deadlines

26 July 2019

For more information see our Applications page.

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What are we looking for?

When we assess your application we would like to learn:

• why you want to study Education, Health Promotion and International Development at graduate level
• why you want to study Education, Health Promotion and International Development at UCL
• what particularly attracts you to the chosen programme
• how your academic and professional background meets the demands of this challenging programme
• where you would like to go professionally with your degree.

Together with essential academic requirements, the personal statement is your opportunity to illustrate whether your reasons for applying to this programme match what the programme will deliver.

Visit the Education, Health Promotion and International Development MA page on the University College London website for more details!