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This programme has been designed to provide educational development driven by policy, based on world health themes relating to individual health, lifestyle choices and the impact on health, health inequalities, populations, care pathways and health care priorities. The programme recognises contemporary challenges for experienced practitioners, educators, researchers, commissioners, managers, leaders and service users who play key roles in health and social care sector.

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In recognition of the value of Masters level programmes to enhance quality and professional practice across a range of settings relevant to health and well-being, the School of Health Professions are delighted to announce a new suite of master's programme pathways which can be studied one year full-time or part-time over a longer period of time.Our new Masters pathways will be launched in January 2013 and will lead to the award of MSc in Advanced Professional Practice in Neurological Rehabilitation, Occupational Therapy, Work & Wellbeing, Dietetics, Paediatric Dietetics or Physiotherapy.These new Master's pathways (full time and part time) build on our current portfolio of established master's programmes. They offer exciting new inter-professional learning opportunities, blended learning, new common core modules, additional pathway routes and the opportunity to study more intensively over a shorter period of time.

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PG CertThis postgraduate certificate course equips you with the knowledge, skills, personal, professional and inter-professional insights and qualities needed to function as a successful change agent in the advancement of healthcare, whether that be through leadership, policy and practice innovation work, or through research, evidence utilisation and practice skill development.Our suite of qualifications in advancing healthcare practice will introduce you to change as a recurring theme one that requires, leadership, innovation, research and skill enhancement. Leadership strategy, practice innovation, research, evidence utilisation and skill development are all part of strategic change, directing and supporting that which enhances the quality of healthcare.

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This postgraduate certificate course is targeted at doctors and other clinicians, working both in primary care and in acute services. It offers development in aspects of leadership relevant to you as a clinician working on the ward or in the clinic, so that you can play a fuller role in improving health service quality and discuss performance issues and potential innovations effectively with managerial colleagues.

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This MSc course is designed to equip practitioners with knowledge and skills, as well as the personal, professional and inter-professional insights and qualities you need to function as a successful change agent, skills analyst and researcher or practice innovator in the advancement of your own field of practice. Throughout your study you will explore module themes with regard to your own practice situation.The qualification comprises a series of modules, each with its own investigations or activities that enable you to explore your work as a place of learning and to further your enquiries using the study group, print and electronic resources of the qualification.

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This MSc course offers an opportunity to examine some of contemporary science's most pressing issues and to develop a wide range of skills associated with masters-level study. You can choose any of the current modules within the postgraduate science programme, which means that you can tailor this MSc to suit your own interests.

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The MSc in Professional Science is an innovative masters degree course designed to allow you to pursue advanced training in science, while simultaneously developing business and workplace skills highly valued by employers. This qualification enables you to explore scientific topics at postgraduate level and also have an interest in how science relates to the world of business.

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This postgraduate degree course enables you to study aspects of medicinal chemistry that explore the links between disease, mechanisms of action and the development of safe, effective commercial drugs. You have the opportunity to pursue these topics across a number of different disease therapies using the innovative teaching methods pioneered by The Open University, while developing a wide range of skills associated with masters-level study.

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Research in this area brings together the knowledge and expertise of leading researchers focusing on the governance, leadership and management of public agencies, not for profit organisations, inter-organisational collaborations and social enterprises. Through diverse conventional, non-traditional and multi-disciplinary approaches, we conduct research exploring the nature of and challenges pertaining to contexts and situations concerned with social, ethical and environmental (political) challenges rather than those focusing purely on economic goals.

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The Faculty of Health and Social Care's work in this theme ranges from research into experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood to the experiences of men who pay for sex. Key themes include the relationship between the body, health and identity and the understanding of reproductive and sexual health across the life course.

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