Nursing Studies (MSc)

Program Overview

Improve your knowledge and skills to become an expert practitioner on our MSc Nursing Studies degree. During this part-time master’s top-up award you'll gain the skills to appraise and challenge current practice. You’ll develop and lead evidence-based provision services that meets the needs of a modern health and social care service.

If you completed your PG Diploma with us, this master’s course gives you a chance to top up to a master's degree by studying one of the following:

The course is entirely dissertation-based so you’ll get to focus on a single piece of work.

You’ll graduate with improved career options and will get the chance to move into leadership roles or continue your studies at PhD level.

Course lead

Your course lead is Dr Lyn Wilson, a lecturer in a range of topics related to promoting health including:

Lyn has worked in secondary education and in the NHS as a senior health promotion specialist. She’s also a registered Public Health Practitioner. Find out more on

Dr Wilson’s staff profile page

If you have a question about the course you can contact Lyn directly:

lynw@soton.ac.uk

Program Outline

This course is made up of a single dissertation module and will run for up to 18 months, starting in October. It will involve planning and writing an independent, original project which is relevant to your current or future area of practice.

You can choose one of the following dissertation formats.

1. A literature review – you'll search for and critically review a wide range of evidence relevant to your topic or clinical issue. You’ll need to explain the implications for current or future practice.
2. A service improvement project (including audit) - you’ll plan and undertake a service service improvement project in your area of practice.
3. Empirical project – you'll carry out a piece of original research on a small scale. You'll need to get ethical approval and make time to collect and analyse data.

Want more detail?

See all the modules in the course.