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Global Mental Health and Society MSc

The University of Edinburgh

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  • Qualification

    MSc - Master of Science

  • Location

    Main Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    SEP

  • Duration

    1 Year

Course summary

Global mental health is an interdisciplinary discipline with academic training programmes, journals, textbooks and research consortiums working to explore and address a range of global mental health priorities in diverse global settings.Much of this activity has been situated in psychiatry and public health disciplines, with a growing body of scholarly work from other professional and social science disciplines including:medical anthropologysocial workinternational developmentclinical psychologyThe role of the social sciences in global mental health is crucial to:further critical understandings of how conceptions of ‘distress’ and ‘mental health’ and 'wellbeing' are socially, culturally and politically constructed in different contextstheorising the intersections between social, economic and technological development and mental healthdeveloping effective interdisciplinary approaches to addressing the mental health and development interface

Application deadline

29/06/2026

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£ 32,000per year

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University information

The University of Edinburgh

  • University League Table

    19th

  • Campus address

    Main Campus, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL, United Kingdom

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    15th out of 75 10

  • Entry standards

    / Max 178
    n/a

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    94.0 94%

    16th

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    2.85 71%

    69th

    5

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