MSc Mental Health Recovery and Social Inclusion (Online)

Our Mental Health Recovery and Social Inclusion postgraduate degrees will provide you with the knowledge and skills to make a difference in the recovery and social inclusion of people experiencing mental distress. The programme aims to:

• provide you with the knowledge and skills to work with service users, carers, and agencies, to develop policies and practice and manage mental health work to aid the recovery and social inclusion of people experiencing mental distress
• enable you to develop an understanding of national and international processes for, and developments in, the recovery and social inclusion of people experiencing mental distress.

Our student body is made up of people with lived and learned experience of mental health and distress. This creates exciting multi-dimensional conversations about issues such as leadership, participation, collaboration and involvement. You'll experience and understand how the lived and the learned experiences can cohabit in interesting spaces in mental health education and practice to encourage organisational innovation and change. Through learning about recovery and social inclusion, youl be able to adapt approaches and understanding of recovery journeys with a fundamental philosophy about enabling students to bring innovation and change to practice.

Normal entry requirements for the programme are:

you'll be committed to actively engaging in the ideas and values of mental health recovery and appreciate the limitations experienced by social exclusion and stigma

a good first degree or equivalent

We encourage applications from people who haven’t benefited from positive educational experience due to their lived experience of mental distress and will consider applicants without a first degree based on their experience*

All students from non-majority English speaking countries require proof of English language proficiency. Normally a good first degree or equivalent, therefore demonstrating the ability to study at Level 7

GCSE English language grade A-C, or equivalent

IELTS 6.5 (with no less than 6.5 in any band). Other English language tests and means to assess appropriate skill are accepted

All our students choose to study our programme to gain a better understanding of MHRSI and find this learning journey enriching and transformational. Our postgraduates use their knowledge and experience in a variety of careers to further their roles within a range of health and care services. They find that being a postgraduate of MHRSI gives them the expertise so that they can progress within their chosen career.

Our postgraduates have gone on to work in a variety of roles and sectors and have highlighted a few of the career paths, including:

• with growing recognition of mental health issues, our postgraduates have gone on to work in a variety of mental health leadership roles for organisations including the NHS and Mind
• if you're already working in mental health services the programme will help you develop innovative practice in your work towards a more recovery and inclusive focus and the skills to evaluate them
• graduates have gone on to further research study into mental health recovery at our doctoral college.
• peer/patient voice is increasingly being represented in roles at all levels in mental health services. This course equips people with lived experience with the learned experience to confidently engage in the discourse and has gone on to various mental health leadership roles.

Additionally, through learning about recovery and social inclusion, you'll hopefully be able to adapt approaches and understanding of your own recovery journey and the journey of loved ones. The underpinning philosophy of this course is to bring innovation and change to practice and we hope that the course will help you be able to work collaboratively with services towards this goal.