PgCert Medical Science (Leadership and Management)

The program welcomes recent graduates (whether UK-based or international students), mature students, and professionals in one of the relevant fields (e.g. police officers, prison officers, probation officers, social workers, lawyers, magistrates).

The distinctiveness of the program resides in its multidisciplinary curriculum which is simultaneously rooted in the University’s combined honors approach to undergraduate teaching and interdisciplinary approach to research.

Course Structure

• CONTEMPORARY CRIMINOLOGY: THEORY AND PRACTICE (30 credits)
• CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE (30 credits)
• QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS (15 credits)
• QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS (15 credits)
• ADVANCED TOPICS IN CRIMINOLOGY AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE (30 credits)
• DISSERTATION (60 credits)

Employability

Graduates from our course have found employment in a variety of occupations including the accelerated police and prison graduate training programs; the probation service; other criminal justice agencies; in the voluntary sector with organizations such as Victim Support and NACRO; and in a variety of other graduate-level jobs. In addition, a number of graduates have gone on to take postgraduate courses at Keele and elsewhere. As part of your Criminology degree, you will have gained a set of Distinctive Graduate Attributes that put you in a unique position in an uncertain labor market that demands graduate employees be skilled, yet flexible, workers.