MPA Public Administration
Course Overview
This one-year Master of Public Administration (MPA) equips you with the analytical skills to understand governance, policy design, and implementation across local, national, and global contexts. You will learn how public organizations tackle major societal challenges and assess the real-world impact of policy choices. The program culminates in a dissertation, allowing you to conduct original research on a pressing public issue.
Key Program Highlights
- Analyze policy-making and administration from local, national, and international perspectives
- Develop a critical understanding of how major policy problems are addressed by organizations
- Receive expert training in research design and methodologies
- Complete an original research dissertation on a topic of your choice
- Learn from leading academics like Dr. John Boswell, whose research focuses on public engagement
Course Overview
This one-year Master of Public Administration (MPA) equips you with the analytical skills to understand governance, policy design, and implementation across local, national, and global contexts. You will learn how public organizations tackle major societal challenges and assess the real-world impact of policy choices. The program culminates in a dissertation, allowing you to conduct original research on a pressing public issue.
Key Program Highlights
- Analyze policy-making and administration from local, national, and international perspectives
- Develop a critical understanding of how major policy problems are addressed by organizations
- Receive expert training in research design and methodologies
- Complete an original research dissertation on a topic of your choice
- Learn from leading academics like Dr. John Boswell, whose research focuses on public engagement
Requirements
Modules
- Advanced Policy Analysis
- Comparative Public Administration
- Issues in Contemporary Public Administration
- MPA Capstone
- MSc Dissertation in Politics & International Relations
- Public Ethics and Public Policy
- Ageing, Health and Well-being
- Challenges of Governance
- Demographic Change, Ageing & Globalisation
- Development and International Relations
- International Social Policy
- Migration Policy in Practice
- Population, Poverty & Policy
- Professional Skills for the 21st Century Policy World
- Qualitative Research Methods 1
- Qualitative Research Methods 2
- The Political Psychology of Crises and Conflicts
