Key dates

Find key dates for the coming academic year, including your programme-specific Welcome Week activities and the start of teaching. Download programme handbook, technologies handbook, and details on your first course, 'Theories and Politics of Social Justice'.

 You can register for all Moray House and University-wide welcome events on the University's UoE Events App linked below. Please always prioritise attending your PROGRAMME-SPECIFIC induction events over general induction events, if timings conflict. 

 Welcome week and Induction

Your programme induction

Welcome to Social Justice and Community Action! During welcome week (the week before teaching starts), we are running two live 'drop-in' welcome sessions, and we hope that you will be able to make one of these. See details below.  

Option 1: Tuesday 9 September 1pm – 2pm (BST) 

Location: Online through Zoom.

Option 2: Thursday 11 September 1pm – 2pm (BST)

Location: Online through Zoom.

In these live ‘drop-in’ welcome sessions, Callum McGregor (Programme Director) and Claire Bynner (Academic Cohort Lead) will be on hand to answer your questions and to welcome you to the programme. Come along, ask us any questions you have, and meet your new classmates from around the world. We’re looking forward to meeting you.

We suggest that you prepare for your session by doing the tasks in the ‘preparing for your studies’ section of these pages and by watching the pre-recorded ‘Welcome to the programme’ information session where the Programme Director (Callum McGregor), Academic Cohort Lead (Claire Bynner) and Student Advisor (Daniel Davis Wood) explain their key roles and how they can support you.  

Watch the 'Welcome to the Programme' session on Media Hopper

Social Justice and Community Action programme key dates for your diary

  • Monday 8 September –  Start of Welcome Week (Week 0)
  • Monday 15 September – Start of semester (Week 1 of teaching)
  • Monday 24 November – Final week of teaching of semester 1 

First course: Theories and Politics of Social Justice

Theories and Politics of Social Justice course welcome and summary

All new students should be automatically enrolled on our first core course, ‘Theories and Politics of Social Justice’. Please make sure that you are enrolled on this course, and if you have any questions, get in touch with your Student Adviser, Dan.

Contact your Student Adviser

Although we use a range of different learning technologies, the main virtual learning environment (VLE) we use for our courses is called ‘Learn Ultra.’ You will have access to the course on Learn Ultra from Monday 8 September, which is your induction or Welcome Week (‘Week 0’).  

Although there are no formal activities, we urge you to use this time to familiarise yourself with the course. There is a discussion forum in the ‘Welcome to Theories and Politics of Social Justice’ section of the course where we encourage you to introduce yourself and get to know your classmates and your tutors. his is where we start to build our online learning community! The teaching then formally starts the week beginning Monday 15th September.  

During ‘welcome week’, you should also familiarise yourself with the MSc Social Justice and Community Action ‘programme hub’ page on Learn Ultra. This space can be considered a ‘hub’, containing essential programme-level information, as well as essential and useful information for new online students.  It is also where student community activities take place and it is a space where you can communicate with your student representatives. The Programme Director and Academic Cohort Lead use this space for programme-wide (as opposed to course-level) communications. 

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