Overview
This Crime, Policy and Security programme from London Metropolitan University combines your professional experience with an academic desire to develop sector specific expertise, influence public policy and ultimately effect change.
This part-time distance learning course is aimed at people working within the criminal justice and security sector, you’ll combine your professional experience with new research into a particular area of interest to you. They’re particularly interested in applications if you want to further the social justice agenda within your field of expertise or professional experience.
Assessment
You’ll be assessed through a variety of coursework and digital submissions that connect the module’s subject matter with your proposed area of study for your thesis.
The Research Methods module will be assessed through mixed methods data analysis exercises. You’ll also write a 50,000-word thesis that will be assessed by one internal and one external examiner through the postgraduate research viva process, which is an oral examination where you’re expected to answer questions and support your thesis to a panel of experts. Your thesis will be assessed for its knowledge and understanding of theory and practice, as well as your contribution to the original knowledge.
Programme Structure
Courses included:
- Research Methods
- Security and Policy in a Global Context
- Leadership and Ethics
- Security, Policy and Society
- Addressing Disproportionality and Vulnerability
- Developing and Shaping Policy
- Advanced Professional Learning Module
Admission Requirements
Academic requirements
Upper Second Class
English requirements
TOEFL iBT: 72
PTE Academic: 59
IELTS: 6
Other requirements
General requirements:
- A master’s degree and at least three years of experience within a managerial role within the specific sector you’re looking to research; or
- a minimum of a 2:1 bachelor’s degree and at least five years’ experience at a senior level within the sector you’ll be researching.
All applicants will be interviewed before being accepted and be expected to present a research plan at the application stage.
Fees and Funding
Tuition Fees
International: 2,516 AUD / module (≈ 1,320 GBP / module)
Domestic: 2,288 AUD / module (≈ 1,200 GBP / module)
Additional Details
September intake
- UK: £1,200 per module then £3,250 per year for thesis stage
- Overseas: £1,320 per module then £3,575 per year for thesis stage