Child Protection Data Futures MSc

Central Campus, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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# =30QS Subject Rankings

12 monthsProgram duration

YesScholarships

SociologyMain Subject Area

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Program overview

Main Subject

Sociology

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

The MSc programme in Child Protection Data Futures aims to build data skills and connect disciplines for safer futures for all children. The current child protection system is fragmented and disjointed, with multiple data sets, sources, standards and capabilities. This means that it is difficult to join up data, obscuring the scale of complexity and challenges within the child protection system. Without high-quality data that can guide policy, funding and interventions, children continue to be exploited and abused, and perpetrators of abuse have impunity.

Child protection data is also changing. With the advent of new technology like extended realities and generative AI comes new online forms of harm. Public services and frontline practitioners are experiencing for the first time enormous volumes of data, particularly around the creation and sharing of Child Sexual Abuse Material. Those who work across the child protection system therefore need to be prepared to not just build better foundations and standards to commission, collect and analyse existing data, but be ready to future-proof the system against harm in new spaces and in new ways.

This programme recognises that complex data insights are needed for a complex system, and that every actor and discipline within the system has a role to play. Through this interdisciplinary and challenge-driven programme, students will learn how to conceptualise and actually use child protection data to create change.

This programme will increase knowledge and understanding of:

risk and protective factors;
the prevalence and incidence; and
the theories and promising programmes and policies that exist to prevent and respond to child abuse.

Importantly, the programme will provide students with the specialist skills to make an impact, with a value-driven, socially responsible contribution to tackling child maltreatment and youth violence globally. Expert speakers, case studies and real-life examples will bring the child protection system to life, and students will have many opportunities to synthesise this learning through activities that apply theory to reality.

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Program overview

Main Subject

Sociology

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

This programme will increase knowledge and understanding of:

risk and protective factors;
the prevalence and incidence; and
the theories and promising programmes and policies that exist to prevent and respond to child abuse.

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Program Duration

1 Year

Starting Month(s)

Sep

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QS subject rankings

2013
#=19
2014
#16
2015
#19
2016
#17
2017
#19
2018
#25
2019
#=33
2020
#35
2021
#31
2022
#=23
2023
#20
2024
#23
2025
#=30

Ranking criteria

Overall

82.6

Academic Reputation

82.4

Citations per Paper

85.4

Employer Reputation

74.5

H-index Citations

88.3

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Central Campus, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

# =30QS Subject Rankings

12 monthsProgram duration

YesScholarships

SociologyMain Subject Area

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Program overview

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