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My name's Sheila Brown, I'm studying the Master of Research in Health and Social Care at the
University of Manchester and I'm in my second year of the distance learning programme. Before
I started the course I was working as a midwife in North Wales and I've actually continued
to do that, and I've been able to manage the workload of the course and still continue
to work because its distance learning. The content of the programme is quite flexible
to be able ot fit around your day if you are working. There's six modules and all the content
is online pretty much. There's ten mandatory study days in all that I was able to get some
time off from work to be able to go to. But most of the content is online so you can access
it anytime and there's online lectures that you can go on and watch a bit of, stop it,
go back to it, there's transcripts of the interviews as well, that you can download
and read through so there's a number of ways, depending on your learning style and ou can
get anything online, the library's really good a the University of Manchester. So it
was fantastic. The reason I chose Manchester was for a few reasons. I was particularly
looking for the distance learning element but also looking at somewhere I'd get a really
good grounding in research methodology, but also being a midwife there's quite a number
of midwifery researchers at Manchester University, which has been fantastic for me as a midwife.
The course has, I feel, opened doors for me. I just recently started a seconded position
as midwifery lecturer at Bangor University. Perhaps if any positions came up as a research
midwife or practice development I feel that this programme would give me the skills and
the knowledge base to do that with confidence. The advice I would give someone who's deciding
to come and study at the University of Manchester is that, yes, I would strongly consider to
come here because of the flexibility of the programme, the support, the expertise that
is here is phenomenal - I think, especially for nursing and midwifery, is fantastic. So
I did look at other programmes, I actually asked quite a number of academics in the UK,
asked for their advice, and my looking into that led me to come to the University of Manchester.