The Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield is pleased to announce the launch of a new MA in Vulnerabilities and Protection starting  in September 2014.

The aim of the programme is two-fold:

1) To examine vulnerabilities, violence and protection across the life course in national and cross national contexts from different disciplinary perspectives, including sociology, social policy and social work.

2) To enable students to explore real life examples of ways in which theory and policy influence and inform practice.

These aims will be achieved by examining at both national and cross-national levels and all stages of the life course:

1. the social construction of vulnerabilities, violence and protection;
2. the impact of contemporary socio-economic, cultural and political dynamics on perceptions and patterns of vulnerabilities, violence and protection;
3. the policy and practice responses of statutory, voluntary and community agencies in various contexts to the issues of vulnerabilities, violence and abuse experienced across the life course. 

Please download the flyer for more info: MA Vulnerabilities & Protection flyer

Master of Childhood and Youth Studies

Southern Cross University, Australia

Accepting applications now

The Graduate Certificate and Masters of Childhood and Youth Studies are designed to meet the needs of people working, or intending to work, with children, young people and their families. These courses are targeted toward professionals from fields as diverse as social work, welfare, family services, health, education, family

dispute resolution, sport and recreation, law, juvenile justice, international community development, research and policy development. The Masters course includes studies in:

• Child protection and participation
• Young people’s social and emotional wellbeing
• Children’s rights
• Young people and the law
• Supporting children through difficult times
• Drugs, alcohol and sexual health
• Embracing diversity
• Program evaluation
• Research with and for children
• Workplace leadership
• Professional portfolio development.

The courses are offered externally/online allowing you to apply your learning immediately in your workplace. There is a strong focus on authentic and professionally-relevant assessment – no written examinations. You can enrol in a full award, or undertake single units as accredited professional development and continue on to the awards at a later date. Students who have completed a Bachelor degree in a similar discipline may receive advanced standing towards the Masters award.

We are always very happy to talk to you about the course and whether it would meet your professional needs, or those of others in your organisation. Contact us directly on edpostgrad@scu.edu.au and we will forward you a more detailed Prospective Student Guide.

We would like to recruit post graduates to our innovative MA Childhood in Society in the Centre for Education Studies at the University of Warwick

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ces/prospective/postgraduate-taught/masters/childhood_in_society

This degree responds to significant developments and key theoretical debates in childhood studies. The course explores children’s lives and experiences in the social, economic, technological and global contexts of contemporary childhood. It addresses the challenges of an expanding programme of Children’s Services that requires new ways of working with children and their families.

The course allows students to plan their study to focus on national and international policy initiatives about children’s rights, learning and development. Childhood in Society has an inter-disciplinary perspective, including: sociology, psychology, anthropology, education, children’s literary studies, early childhood and social policy. This perspective means that students have the opportunity to study the various, sometimes competing, paradigms concerned with children’s voice and rights and engage in debate, analysis and critique of the current research-policy-to-practice contexts nationally and internationally.

We welcome international and home students from a wide range of cultures and backgrounds. The course is attractive to new graduates, practitioners and professionals in education and children’s services; child related NGOs and voluntary sector organisations and those hoping to build an academic career in childhood studies.

The course is taught full-time over one year and part-time over 2-5 years.

MA in Children, Youth and International Development

This innovative interdisciplinary programme, based at Brunel University, is one of the first worldwide to cater specifically for those working, or interested in working, in the field of children, youth and international development. Taught by highly motivated, internationally recognised, research-active staff, it has been running for five years, and has attracted students from diverse disciplinary and occupational backgrounds and more than 40 different countries.

The course is designed to equip students with the conceptual understanding and breadth of knowledge required to critically evaluate policy and practice in the area of children, youth and international development. It also develops the skills necessary to design and undertake research relating to children, youth and development. Former students have progressed to careers with government, international organisations and NGOs as well as doctoral study.

The full time course requires attendance two days a week across two terms (September to April), followed by 6 months spent researching and writing a dissertation. During term 2, options include a work placement or participation in an academic exchange with the Norwegian Centre for Child Research in Trondheim.

The course commences in late September. We do not operate strict application deadlines, but partial scholarships are available on a competitive basis to international students who apply for the course by 25th May. It is advisable for international applicants to apply by early June in order to secure a UK study visa. Discounts are also available for UK-based applicants with first class degrees and to graduates of Brunel University.

Further details, are available on the Brunel website http://www.brunel.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/children-youth-international-development-ma. For further information, emailnicola.ansell@brunel.ac.uk.

The international Master program in Early Childhood Education & Care (IMEC) is a unique two-year, full-time Master program under the European Union’s Erasmus Mundus scheme focusing on international early childhood education and care.

IMEC has been running for the last four years and to date over 30 students have successfully completed and graduated with this degree. In addition, there are a further 28 students pursuing their studies in the first or second year of the program.

Regrettably, IMEC is offered for the last time starting August 2014.

Consequently, it has been decided that the deadline for applications be extended, allowing fee-paying applicants the opportunity to follow IMEC.  Unfortunately, this possibility is only open for European students.

Do you want to know what previous students write about the IMEC program? Take a look here: http://www.hioa.no/Om-HiOA/Fakultet-for-laererutdanning-og-internasjonale-studier-LUI/node_33005/Institutt-for-barnehagelaererutdanning/IMEC/Student-stories

 Benefits from the IMEC program:

• ·         a highly esteemed international master program recognized as an Erasmus Mundus programme;
• ·         the unique possibility of studying early childhood education and care in several international settings including  Oslo, Dublin, Malta and Gothenburg;
• ·         participating in international classes with students from all over the world;
• ·         attending lectures given by well-established lecturers in the field of ECEC;
• ·         visiting early years settings in different countries;
• ·         broadening your insights and experiences about ECEC through the diversity of settings, lectures and students’ contributions as well as through the varied readings, presentations, discussions and debates;
• ·         a joint final diploma recognized by  four European institutions which have been responsible for developing and delivering IMEC