Workplace Health and Wellbeing (Distance Learning) MSc/PGDip

Program Overview

The online MSc in Workplace Health and Wellbeing equips professionals with the knowledge and skills to enhance employee wellbeing and organizational effectiveness. Through coursework and research, students gain expertise in managing workplace stress, promoting healthy behaviors, and evaluating workplace health initiatives. The program is ideal for individuals seeking to advance their careers in workplace health and wellbeing or for those aspiring to enter the field.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This online MSc degree program enhances expertise in creating healthy workplaces that foster wellbeing and organizational effectiveness. The part-time program accommodates working individuals' professional commitments. Students develop evidence-based knowledge on maintaining a healthy and effective workforce, learning from experts with an international reputation for research and practice.

Objectives:

• Understand scientific theory and evidence concerning relations between work, health, wellbeing, and organizational effectiveness
• Apply scientific knowledge in contemporary work settings
• Create a health and wellbeing culture
• Use scientific methods to address workplace health and wellbeing challenges and opportunities

Outline:

The program consists of six taught modules and one research-based module:

Modules:

• Management of Workplace Health: Explores the definition and measurement of workplace, health, and wellbeing, approaches to identifying risks and opportunities, and strategies for prioritizing workplace health and wellbeing activities.
• Work-related Stress, Organizations and Culture: Examines work-related stress, depression, or anxiety, its management, and the application of psychological theories to its management.
• Absence, Rehabilitation and Retention: Considers attendance, sickness absence, presenteeism, and leaveism, and evidence-based approaches to employee rehabilitation following absence.
• Contemporary Issues in Workplace Health: Explores contemporary issues facing workplace health and wellbeing practitioners and the role of theory and scientific evidence in understanding and managing these issues.
• Workplace Health and Wellbeing Research and Evaluation Methods: Fosters a community of research practitioners who can collect, analyze, interpret, and draw informed conclusions on qualitative and quantitative data to make recommendations on actions to protect and promote workers' health and wellbeing.
• Promotion of Workplace Health and Wellbeing: Examines the business case for workplace health promotion, introduces contemporary psychological theories of behavior change, and explores how these theories provide an understanding of workers' behaviors and inform the design of interventions to encourage healthy choices.
• Applied Research Project: Theory and Practice: A year-long module where students conduct an applied research project, applying skills and knowledge acquired during the taught part of the course.

Assessment:

Assessment is purely coursework-based, with no exams. Methods include:

• Essay
• Online workbook
• Journal paper report
• Research process review

Teaching:

• eLearning
• Tutorials
• Workshops
• Webinars
The program begins with an optional campus-based workshop, with all remaining study taking place online. Live sessions provide opportunities to share thoughts and ideas with guest speakers and fellow students.

Careers:

Graduates become knowledgeable and influential advocates for workplace health and wellbeing practice in their organizations, sectors, or countries. Career progression opportunities are available.

Other:

• The program is suitable for individuals currently working in the field, those with a health and wellbeing remit within a broader role, and those aspiring to move into this area.
• Graduates contribute daily to creating happy, healthy, and productive workplaces.

| Qualification | Home / UK | International | | ------------------------ | ----------- | -------------- | | MSc | £11,850 | £11,850 | | PGDip | £7,900 | £7,900 |