MSc Advancing Practice in Health (Advancing Practice in Health Framework)

As a student on this programme you will develop your knowledge of the evidence-base for/of practice and deepen your critical thinking, professional reasoning and research skills. We have designed it to suit occupational therapists from a wide range of settings and to give you the support you need to redefine your career as an advanced practitioner in education, research, leadership, policy or practice. The MSc Advancing Practice in Occupational Therapy is embedded as an integrated pathway on our Person-Centred Practice Framework, which affords equal attention to both the philosophy of occupation and of person-centredness. This framework offers a student-centred approach to education, fostered through three approaches to learning: experiential and collaborative learning, critical discourse and evidence-based teaching. Specifically, the MSc programme aims to ensure the centrality of occupation as part of therapists’ postgraduate education and, in so doing, responds to the strategic drivers for change towards advanced and person-centred practice in global health and social care. Educationally, it will address philosophical concepts from occupational science and person-centred practice that will be blended throughout the programme to facilitate learning at master’s level.

As a student on this programme you will develop your knowledge of the evidence-base for/of practice and deepen your critical thinking, professional reasoning and research skills. We have designed it to suit occupational therapists from a wide range of settings and to give you the support you need to redefine your career as an advanced practitioner in education, research, leadership, policy or practice. The MSc Advancing Practice in Occupational Therapy is embedded as an integrated pathway on our Person-Centred Practice Framework, which affords equal attention to both the philosophy of occupation and of person-centredness. This framework offers a student-centred approach to education, fostered through three approaches to learning: experiential and collaborative learning, critical discourse and evidence-based teaching. Specifically, the MSc programme aims to ensure the centrality of occupation as part of therapists’ postgraduate education and, in so doing, responds to the strategic drivers for change towards advanced and person-centred practice in global health and social care. Educationally, it will address philosophical concepts from occupational science and person-centred practice that will be blended throughout the programme to facilitate learning at master’s level.