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While globalisation, digitalisation and social media are helping to bring virtually everything – and everyone – closer together thanks to easier access, they also present challenges.
Such advances mean there is a much greater interdependence between the global economic and social issues facing international policymakers, government officials, academics and researchers.
“Governments across the globe increasingly face similar policy challenges, but the special answers to them continue to vary considerably,” says Professor Stefan Kuehner, assistant professor at Lingnan University and programme director of the new master of social sciences in comparative social policy (international) programme, known as IMCSP.
“Comparing the social policies and politics in different localities helps students understand whether their own country or city is typical or unusual, or whether it is a leader or a laggard with regard to specific aspects of public services provision.”
Governments across the globe increasingly face similar policy challenges, but the special answers to them continue to vary considerably
Kuehner, a renowned social sciences scholar who worked at Britain’s University of York before moving to Lingnan in 2016, says IMCSP is primarily designed for graduates with degrees in social policy, public policy, international development, sociology or other social sciences, or professionals whose work is directly related to social policy formulation, execution and analysis.