MA in Hospice Leadership
This new part-time Masters in Hospice Leadership is designed to address the development needs and challenges facing leaders in palliative and end-of-life care, both now and in the future. Developed in partnership with the International Observatory on End of Life Care and Help the Hospices, the programme is designed for chief executives, senior managers and suitably qualified people who aspire to lead hospices both in the UK and overseas.
A central aim of the programme is to develop professionals capable of integrating their leadership practice in the context of modern hospice care, and to create a network of people engaged in learning about leadership who can share good practice across participating organisations and services.
The programme’s content, structure and learning methods have flexibility to allow you to pursue issues of particular relevance to your own personal development, within the specific context of end-of-life and palliative care. Through the programme assignments you are encouraged to look in depth at specific issues from your own ‘real world' context and generate new insights on your professional practice.
Programme objectives
By joining the programme you will be building your knowledge in skills in various key areas:
- understanding the requirements of leading and managing a hospice or palliative care service in an increasingly dynamic work environment
- analysing and critically exploring political, social and funding issues that impact on hospice provision nationally and internationally
- discovering new ways of looking at organisational issues and problems within a framework of dynamic learning
- developing new ways of thinking and acting when dealing with organisational issues from both external and internal perspectives
Reflection and personal development
At the start of the programme all participants begin a reflective learning journal, which not only provides research material for your first assignment but helps you to evaluate your personal learning and leadership throughout the programme.
'Leading questions'
Sarah Riches, Nursing Director at St Giles Hospice, and a participant on Lancaster's MA in Hospice Leadership, was featured in The Guardian's 'Society' supplement on 27 May 2009. Sarah answers questions about leadership in the Hospice Sector and describes how the Lancaster MA is providing immediate benefits.
Diploma and Masters pathways
The full Masters programme concludes with a 15,000-word research-based dissertation. An alternative Diploma option is available, following the same modules but finishing after the Summer School in Year 2.
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