Global mental health is a growing field with significant recent and ongoing investment from multilateral development agencies and governments, in both research and implementation.
As care is 'standardised' and 'scaled up' across radically different societies, the hardest questions relate to the intersections between social, cultural and political context, and individual and collective wellbeing and distress. These are exactly the questions this MSc foregrounds.
This programme takes a critical social-science approach to global mental health. Where much of the field sits within psychiatry and public health, this programme draws on:
Together, these perspectives examine how 'distress', 'mental health' and 'wellbeing' are understood, expressed and experienced differently across contexts, and what those differences mean for policy and practice.
You will develop:
This programme is not a professional programme in mental health and does not provide clinical or professional practice training or accreditation.
The programme is aimed at both professionals and graduates with backgrounds in:
We welcome applications from people with lived experience and from disciplines not listed above.
A UK 2:1 honours degree or its international equivalent.
The programme is aimed at both professionals and graduates with backgrounds in:
We welcome applications from people with lived experience and from disciplines not listed above. In your application to the programme, please do focus on how your particular personal and academic background fits with the study of global mental health as a discipline.
To find international equivalent qualifications, select where you studied from the country or region list.