Healthcare Practice
MSc
PgDip
Postgraduate
September 2025
Overview
The MSc Mental Health & Wellbeing will provide you with the comprehensive knowledge, understanding and skills to allow you to pursue a career in mental health and wellbeing.
You will engage with theories, principles and practices that contribute to improvements in mental health and will explore current local, national and global mental health challenges. You will develop your insights into innovative responses to meet these challenges, within the context of complex political, cultural, geographical and economic environments.
We will support you to develop your knowledge and skill base through innovation and creativity in a flexible learning environment.
Why study Mental Health and Wellbeing at CCCU?
Our MSc Mental Health and Wellbeing allows you to study mental health in a non-clinical capacity and provides you with the knowledge to work in a variety of roles in statutory and non- statutory, educational, health and social care environments.
It will give you the opportunity to progress onto more in-depth study of mental health and wellbeing at postgraduate level, to enable you to help support and address the mental health and wellbeing needs of society. The course will be delivered by a mix of inter-professional academics which will ensure a range of perspectives is covered, to provide variety and also to utilise as many areas of expertise as possible in order to deliver a unique learning experience.
The course will develop your skills so you can progress onto careers in areas such as postgraduate entry healthcare, mental health support, social prescribing, public health, health and mainstream education, campaigning and policy development, health-related charity work and increasingly, private sector organisations who are commissioned to improve particular aspects of health and wellbeing.
You can also progress onto further specialist study or research, PhD study opportunities are available at Canterbury Christ Church University. The MSc Mental Health and Wellbeing adopts a strong ethos of widening participation, facilitating the engagement of a diverse profile of postgraduates within the health and wellbeing sector.
Innovative mental health and wellbeing approaches are needed to help tackle discrimination and stigma, as well as core issues such as poverty and health inequalities that contribute to the increasing levels of poor health, globally, nationally and locally.
Dr Elisabetta Corvo, Course Director
Entry requirements
Applicants should normally possess:
- a relevant first degree
Or
- a professional registration in a related area or equivalent
- working in the field of practice relevant to their proposed study and a cover letter to demonstrate this.
Consideration will be given to other, non-professionally registered specialists, who can demonstrate the relevance of the award to their professional and career development.
International students will need to meet the requirements of any international student coming to study in the UK.
If English is not your first language you require an IELTS overall score of 6.0 with no element below 5.5 for most standard undergraduate and postgraduate courses. For more information on the IELTS (International English language Testing System) requirements for this course, please click here to visit our dedicated IELTS web page.
Module information
Core/optional modules
*Modules subject to approval
How you’ll learn
For full time students, in each trimester you will attend 3 taught modules per week. Each module has 30 hours of direct contact teaching and 20 hours of directed study per Trimester, and 150 hours of independent study.
The hours assigned to each module will divided amongst face-to-face teaching, directed study, and independent learning. Each week you will have a 3 hour directly taught session and 2 hours of directed study set for you by the module leader for each module. So, in Trimester 1 you will have 3 x 3 hour lectures and 3 x 2 hours of directed study. You will also be expected to work independently for each module each week. You will be given detailed guidance about the structure and content of each week of the modules.
Teaching strategies used will include lectures, large group discussions, small group work, engagement with online tools, student presentations, and student led workshops.
You will be taught within inclusive, flexible and responsive learning environments which will involve research and enquiry-based approaches to support you in the development of the knowledge and skills outlined in the course aims. Technology-enhanced learning in the form of blended learning will be an extension of face-to-face teaching and will offer a more open and flexible form of teaching and learning. To develop your digital literacy in line with the Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching (TELT) strategy of the University, you will be introduced to the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and will be supported to develop your engagement with other colleagues and lecturers throughout the route in a safe virtual environment.
You will be encouraged to use available technology and a wide range of digital media to maximise and support your learning. You will also receive full academic writing support from our dedicated learning developer team and faculty librarians will support you with accessing the library and its vast range of resources, both hard copy and digital.
You will be allocated a Personal and Academic Tutor (PAT) from the Public Health teaching team at the beginning of your studies, who will support you throughout the year by offering individual and group tutorials at regular intervals.
How you’ll be assessed
The course is made up of 180 level 7 credits. Each module will be assessed individually, allowing you to accrue credits as you move through the route. Assessment formats will include;
Coursework: essays, reflective writing, case study, written report, review/critical review, research project.
Oral assessment: group or individual presentations - PowerPoint, Poster, Pecha kucha, Debate, Ted Talk style video.
Your future career
The teaching team has links with community organisations, NHS Trusts, Kent County Council and Medway Unitary Authority Public Health teams to create a ‘bank’ of potential employers who advertise work opportunities directly to our students. We have a peer-based employability networking support which is co-produced with the student body. Students are actively encouraged to assist and volunteer with the organisation of the University-wide celebration of public health and health promotion events, such as World Mental Health Day.
- The taught sessions will include guest lecture sessions from the Enterprise and Employability Team to advise, support and provide information towards gaining voluntary and paid employment.
- Guest lectures where public health professionals will present ‘real-world problems’ to students.
- Alumni will be invited into the taught sessions to advise students how their learning from the programme has assisted their career path.
- We invite postgraduate research students to share their experience which potentially opens up further study opportunities at doctorate level.
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Fees
Government loans are available for some postgraduate Master’s courses. Loans are subject to both personal and course eligibility criteria.
The rules around course eligibility mean that in some cases it may depend on how you are studying (full-time or part-time) as to whether you can apply for a postgraduate loan. To check whether your course is eligible, you can email the Student Fees Team or call 01227 923 456.
Tuition fees for this course
| UK | Overseas | |
| Full-time | £9,545 | £15,500 |
20% Alumni Discount
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Important Information on Tuition Fees
Tuition fees for all courses which last more than one academic year are payable on an annual basis, except where stated.
There will be an annual inflationary increase in tuition fees for this course where the course lasts more than one academic year. For further information read the Tuition fee statements and continuing fee information.
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*We are advertising this course as ‘subject to approval.’ When we add new courses or update existing courses, we advertise the course as ‘subject to approval’. We do this to let you know the University still needs to agree to run the course. It is rare for a course not to gain approval, but it is not guaranteed. There may be changes to course and module titles, content and assessment, but we will tell you about these if there is a change. You can still apply to study a course subject to approval. We have prepared some questions and answers to tell you more.