Why Study MA Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care at CCCU? 

Canterbury Christ Church is uniquely positioned in the UK as the only Church Foundation University with both a Theology team and a Medical School (the Kent and Medway Medical School). This makes for a distinctive opportunity for highly specialised interdisciplinary study in this area, supported across the institution. Further, the University is also home to the National Institute for Christian Education Research, which is fully engaged with work relevant to the leadership of “Faith Schools” and Religious Education. As a Church of England Foundation, the University also has a vibrant and well-supported Chaplaincy team of its own, which, in addition to delivering pastoral care, actively contributes to academic research in this area.

As well as providing a postgraduate qualification in theology and religious studies, the course develops knowledge and understanding relevant to charity and community work, to hospital and other types of chaplaincy, as well as to educational institutions and the school sector.