Public policy making has become more challenging in recent years in the context of the increasing complexity of clients’ needs, growing expectations regarding appropriate service quality and diminishing public spending in many countries.

 

The Professional Diploma in Public Policy is designed to provide you with a selection of modules to introduce general concepts and skills to meet these challenges.

 

We examine the socio-economic changes and political issues which influence policy making, the challenges associated with effective regulation and administration of public services and ensuring that policy decisions are evidence based.

 

Students can specialise in any of these streams: Citizenship and Rights; Community, Drugs, and Health Policy; Economic Policy;  Environmental Policy; EU Policy; Regulatory Governance; Research Methods; Urban Policy.