Public Policy and Management

What you will learn

This course will provide you with a deeper insight into the people and institutions that make policy happen. It aims to develop your analytical skills and applied reasoning, while honing your knowledge of contemporary theory.

It will help you to build the skills you need to apply ideas to real-world cases and studies, and is ideal if you are working, or seeking a career, in public policy research and implementation.

How you will learn

You can study this course full- or part-time and it follows an evening timetable with classes in the evening. These consist of lectures and seminars. Lectures aim to blend up-to-date theory with applied examples and are recorded to allow you to watch them at your own convenience. Seminars give you the chance to engage in live discussions, debates and analyses of contemporary topics ranging from how lobbying shapes politics, to whether the UK government ‘followed the science’ during the Covid pandemic.

This degree is part of our new Birkbeck Flexible Master's UK, which gives you the choice of how you want to study - on campus, online or via flexible learning, which combines both.

Highlights

Careers and employability

On successfully graduating from this MSc Public Policy and Management, you will have gained an array of important transferable skills, including:

Graduates can pursue career paths in government, policy analysis and influence, think tanks, public affairs and advocacy, and journalism. Possible professions include:

Some of our graduates from this course have gone on to be employed at the House of Commons, Cabinet Office and Financial Times.

We offer a comprehensive careers service - Careers and Enterprise - your career partner during your time at Birkbeck and beyond. At every stage of your career journey, we empower you to take ownership of your future, helping you to make the connection between your experience, education and future ambitions.