Social and Community Leadership

Build your leadership capabilities so you can influence and create meaningful change across community, government, and not-for-profit sectors.

If you’re passionate about solving society’s most difficult problems, it’s critical to build a range of professional skills to help foster change.

The programmes are grounded within a strong social justice framework and designed for curious, committed practitioners who want to gain advanced capabilities in project management, programme design, consultation, and research evaluation and implementation.

Topics include policy appraisal and development, community and environmental psychology, programme evaluation, human service management, family counselling, youth development, social justice, health and wellbeing, and managing and developing people.

Programmes in Social and Community Leadership

Master of Social and Community Leadership

This degree offers taught courses in social and community leadership and leading social innovation, elective course options and a research component.

The research component will give you real life practise and a depth of experience that builds strong research, investigative and evaluative capabilities.

Postgraduate Certificate in Social and Community Leadership

This programme is the same first 60 points of the masters programme.

You will build your leadership capabilities and professional skills through two courses in leadership and leading social innovation and choose from elective courses to broaden your perspective and knowledge in an area you want to focus on.