MSc Advanced Leadership for Professional Practice (Nursing)

For entry in the academic year beginning September 2026, the tuition fees are as follows:

• MSc (full-time)
  UK students (per annum): £12,100
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £29,400

Further information for EU students can be found on our dedicated EU page.

The fees will be fully inclusive for the course tuition, administration and computational costs during your studies.

All fees for entry will be subject to yearly review and incremental rises per annum are likely over the duration of courses lasting more than a year for UK/EU students (fees are typically fixed for international students for the course duration at the year of entry).

For general fees information please visit postgraduate fees . Always contact the department if you are unsure which fee applies to your qualification award and method of attendance. Please be aware that you are only eligible for the postgraduate loan for English students if you choose the 1 year full-time or 2 year part-time programme.

For part-time routes, full-time fees will be split over two or three years as appropriate.

International fees

Self-funded international applicants for this course will be required to pay a deposit of £1,000 towards their tuition fees before a confirmation of acceptance for studies (CAS) is issued. This deposit will only be refunded if immigration permission is refused. We will notify you about how and when to make this payment.

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

1/ Produce students who:

a. Have a critical understanding of the concept of “mental disorder” and the medical model of psychiatry and an ability to apply this knowledge to practice situations.

b. Have a critical understanding of non-medical perspectives on the cause and identification of mental distress (including anti-oppressive practice) and an ability to apply this knowledge to practice situations.

c. Can critically reflect on the implications of receiving a mental health diagnosis (including anti-oppressive practice)

d. Have a critical understanding in relation to the formulation of ‘risk’.

e. Can critically evaluate multi-disciplinary perspectives on the care and treatment of people experiencing mental distress.

2/ Produce students who can formulate and clearly communicate their opinions using relevant evidence.
 

Students should be able to:

1/ The majority of the teaching will be provided on campus where external guest speakers will deliver face-to-face lectures, although some of the lectures may be provided on-line (via Teams and Zoom) to enable the contribution of external lecturers.

2/ Assignment guidance will be provided via face-to-face seminars and this will be supplemented with asynchronistic content on the Nearpod platform. Following the end of the timetabled dates, further online sessions will be offered to support students with the assignment. These will include formative learning opportunities.

3/ Students will be offered the opportunity to complete an online psychological assessment to reflect on their own personality style.

KU1.  Demonstrate a critical understanding of the concept of “mental disorder” and the medical model of psychiatry and an ability to apply this knowledge to practice situations.

KU2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of non-medical perspectives on the cause and identification of mental distress (including anti-oppressive practice) an ability to apply this knowledge to practice situations.

KU3. Demonstrate a critical understanding in relation to the formulation of ‘risk’.
 

IS1.  Critically reflect on the implications of receiving a mental health diagnosis.

IS2.  Critically evaluate multi-disciplinary perspectives on the care and treatment of people experiencing mental distress. PS1.  Formulate and clearly communicate their opinions using relevant evidence.
 

PS1. Formulate and clearly communicate their opinions using relevant evidence.

TS1. Assimilate, analyse and synthesise information from various sources.

Prior to completing the summative assignment, students will have the opportunity to complete and receive feedback on a formative assignment.

All students will receive detailed feedback on their assignment submission via Turnitin and have the opportunity for a 1:2:1 tutorial if required.

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Brossard, B. and Chandler, A. (2022) Explaining Mental Illness - Sociological Perspectives. Bristol University Press, Bristol

Cooke, A. and Kinderman (2018) “But What About Real Mental Illnesses?” Alternatives to the Disease Model Approach to “Schizophrenia”. In Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 58(1), pp. 47 to 71.

Davidson, G., Campbell, J., Shannon, C. and Mulholland, C. (2016) Models of mental health. Macmillan Education/Palgrave, Basingstoke

Johnstone, L. and Boyle, M. (2018) The Power Threat Meaning Framework: An Alternative Nondiagnostic Conceptual System. Journal of Humanistic Psychology

Kinsella, C. and Kinsella, C. (2015) Introducing Mental Health, Second Edition : A Practical Guide. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London

Kitwood, T. (2019) Dementia reconsidered, revisited : the person still comes first. Open University Press, London

Moncrieff, J. and Middleton, H (2015) Schizophrenia :  a critical psychiatry perspective. In Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 28(3), pp. 264-268.

Pilgrim, D., Rogers, A. and Pescosolido, A (2010) The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness. Sage, London.

Semple, D. and Smyth, R. (2019) The Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry (4th ed). Open University Press, London.