The core modules give you the opportunity to build high quality research skills and learn from each other’s experiences as professionals. Each professional pathway then offers a choice of modules from which two may be selected to tailor your own course. Choose the professional pathway that’s right for you with a host of optional modules in seven diverse fields:

Housing
This pathway includes a choice of specialist modules in Providing Housing Services; Sustainable Communities; Organisational Behaviour; Delivering Affordable Housing; Housing Governance; Healthy Housing.

Social Work
Our Social Work pathway includes a choice of specialist modules in Understanding Children and Young People's needs; Understanding Children and Young People's Needs; Improving Outcomes for Children and Young People; and several others.

Dementia Studies
This pathway includes a choice of specialist modules in Evaluation and Assessment in Dementia Care and Researching Dementia.

Criminal Justice
Our Criminal Justice pathway includes a choice of specialist modules in Criminological Perspectives; Criminalisation Social Control and Human Rights; Rehabilitation and Criminal Justice Work; Research Methods in Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies.

Substance Use
Our Substance Use pathway includes a choice of specialist modules in Understanding Addiction: Society Policy and Practice and Understanding Addiction: Treatment and Recovery.

Family Therapy
As the only doctorate of its kind in Scotland the Doctorate of Applied Social Research (Family Therapy) is for family therapists and systemic practitioners who want to develop as a researcher complementing existing clinical skills and knowledge.

Applied Social Research
The Applied Social Research pathway includes a choice of specialist modules in Nature of Social Enquiry; Social Network Analysis; Policy Analysis and Evaluation Research; Advanced Quantitative Data Analysis; Theory and Method of Digital Social Research.

Modules
The module information below provides an example of the types of course module you may study. The details listed are for the current academic year (September 2022). Modules and start dates are regularly reviewed and may be subject to change in future years.

Please choose a course:

Doctor of Applied Social Research Applied Social Research (Applied Social Science)
There are four options for this course:

Starting September full time (Online learning)
A student who choses not to progress to the thesis may be awarded the Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Social Research (Professional).

Year 1 Autumn semester
Compulsory module

Module Credits
Research Design and Process (ASRP002) 20 credits
Compulsory module

Module Credits
Social Network Analysis (SSSP001) 20 credits
Compulsory module

Module Credits
Quantitative Data Analysis (ASRP004) 20 credits
Year 1 Spring semester
Year 2 Autumn semester
Year 2 Spring semester