Information for current students 2016/17

Department information and procedures 

• Basic study skills - note-taking, essay writing, citation and referencing, class/seminar presenting
• Communication and networking - keeping in touch, sources of information, socialising, Department committees and student representation
• Courses in the Department - includes information about course suspension, withdrawal and capping
• Cumberland Lodge 
• Examination and assessment - coursework presentation, summative coursework submission procedures, feedback, examination advice
• External Examiner reports
• Hardship funds 
• Plagiarism - defining plagiarism, how to avoid it
• Prizes
• Social Policy Society - Facebook group, log in required
• Student representatives

Undergraduate students

• Undergraduate Programme Handbook (PDF)
• Undergraduate teaching, supervision and support
• Marking framework (PDF)

Taught Masters students

• Dissertation guidelines
• Graduate teaching, supervision and support
• Marking framework (PDF)  
• MSc Programme Handbooks (PDF):
  • Criminal Justice Policy
  • Global Health
  • Health Policy, Planning and Financing
  • Health, Population and Society
  • International Health Policy (both streams)
  • Population and Development
  • Social Policy (European and Comparative Social Policy)
  • Social Policy (Research)
  • Social Policy (Social Policy and Planning)
  • Social Policy and Development
  • Social Policy and Development (Non-Governmental Organisations)

Executive Master Programmes 

• Executive Master Programme Handbooks (PDF):
  • Executive MSc Behavioural Science
  • Executive MSc Health Economics, Outcomes and Management in Cardiovascular Sciences
  • Executive MSc Health Economics, Policy and Management

Research students

School resources

• PhD Academy
• PhD overview: Year by year
• Handbook for PhD supervisors (also available to students)

Department resources

• Research Programmes Handbook (PDF)
• SA550 Research Seminar Programme- MT
• PhD Style Guide (PDF)
• PhD Template (WORD)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities