30 Development & Social Policy and Planning Masters in Ireland

Master in City Planning and Resilience

You will learn about the planning and development of urban areas, the current challenges that face these areas and you will start to develop the knowledge, critical thinking skills and practical skills, which will allow you to contribute to tackling these. The programme combines spatial planning, urban design, and an understanding of Information and communications technologies in a unique manner.

Master in Regional and Urban Planning

The Master of Regional and Urban Planning (MRUP) is a two-year professional planning degree, which will provide you with the first steps to becoming a professional chartered planner. The MRUP offers you the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills and values fundamental to a career in planning and skills and knowledge which are transferrable to other careers.

Master in Rights & Social Policy, MSocSc

The MSocSc (Rights & Social Policy), provides advanced study in key and often challenging issues facing social policy today. It provides an opportunity for critical study in the application of social policy theory and methodology to policy and practice.

Master in Planning and Development

Dublin Institute of Technology

This two year, part-time course provides the educational requirements for practice as a Planning and Development Surveyor. It also serves the purpose of broadening the knowledge and skill base of professionals working in the built environment field.

Master in MBS (Government)

University College Cork

The MBS (Government) is a post-graduate degree, which may be taken either one year full-time or two years part-time from the date of first registration

Master in MBS (Co-operative & Social Enterprise)

University College Cork

This is a distance learning course delivered entirely over the Internet designed for graduates of all disciplines across Arts, Sciences and Engineering, Commerce, Humanities and Social Sciences, Law, and Languages.

Master in Culinary Innovation and Food Product Development

Dublin Institute of Technology

This programme (offered in both full and part-time format) is designed to uniquely bridge the knowledge gap between science, business and the culinary arts. It offers a combination of critical, reflective and technical knowledge of the development of innovative food products.

Master in Development Practice

University of Dublin Trinity College

The Masters in Development Practice will develop the core competencies required by practitioners in international development. The programme combines a range of teaching and learning approaches and mechanisms in the seminar room and in the field, and brings to bear expertise from both academics and practitioners.

Master in Masters in Voluntary and Community Sector Management

University College Cork

This programme aims to equip the student with the necessary knowledge and skills, linked to the particular values underlying work in the voluntary and community sector, to more effectively and efficiently manage and coordinate voluntary sector activiities.

Master in Drug and Alcohol Policy

University of Dublin Trinity College

This course has been designed to offer a broad critical understanding of how society attempts to prevent or respond to problems associated with the use of licit and illicit drugs, as well as a more specific opportunity to develop research, management and policy-making skills in this area.

Master in Disability Studies

University of Dublin Trinity College

This M.Sc. in Disability Studies builds capacity through a high quality and accessible graduate curriculum that combines the scholarly and the experiential. This programme is oriented towards professionals from the disability service provision sector in the middle and senior management positions, students from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, legislators, government and state agencies employees, advocacy organizations, and community agencies’ members.

Master in M.P Lan Planning and Sustainable Development

University College Cork

The M.Plan (CKE69) is a two year taught course that prepares graduates for professional careers in town and country planning, regional and spatial planning, sustainable and related environmental fields.