Social Policy and Economics

Course description

Social policy examines the ways in which societies distribute resources and develop services. Economics aims to understand the activities of the different agents in the economy – consumers, producers and the government – and how they all fit together.

Why Social Policy and Economics at Strathclyde?
Ranked 2nd in the UK for Social Policy (The Times Good University Guide 2021).
Learn about the social and economic challenges facing both Scotland and the UK.
Address some of the major questions of our time, such as how social policy should adapt to a changing global, digital, connected and information-rich world.
Gain insight into how different societies organise their resources to meet individual and social needs.
Undertake an extended investigation into a topic of your own choosing for your Honours dissertation.

Your Career
Employment destinations for social policy graduates include local and national government policy development, regional and urban development, children’s services, health and social welfare, and protective services.

Recent graduate job roles include:
solicitor (Scotland) - this can be in a private practice, local or national government or in-house
advocate (Scotland)
company secretary

Subjects

• Economics
• Social policy
• Social sciences
• Humanities