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Faculty of

Humanities and Social Sciences

Public Policy and Professional Practice

MA in Public Policy

Subject to final approval by Senate

Award: MPP (MA in PP)

Course Director: Professor Calum Paton

Contact Name: Clare Nicholls, Course Administrator

Address: School of Public Policy and Professional Practice, Chancellors Building, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG

Telephone:  01782 733193 Fax: 01782 734069
Email: c.nicholls@keele.ac.uk

Part-time and Full-time study

The new Master’s degree in Public Policy is based on the belief that education in how policy is made, how it is implemented and ways in which these processes could be improved can, in turn, improve the capacity of government to ‘deliver’. This degree is also about the intellectual understanding of policy, government and politics. Government here may refer to central, local or regional government; and – in a wider definition of the state - to the public policy ‘fields’ (such as health, education, economic affairs and so on) which affect society, the citizenry, key social groups and individuals.

The course is led and staffed at a high-level of academic seniority by leaders in the field of public policy and its specialisms – widely published academically, and widely experienced in advising at central and local levels in the ‘real world.’