My name is Hedvig, I'm doing the
MSc here in Criminology and
Criminal Justice at the University of
Edinburgh, and I've come from Sweden to
do this master's here.
The fact that you
do get to kind of shape the programme as
you please in a sense, the first semester
you get to choose one course that you
would like to do, you have two different
options, and the same goes for the second
semester, you get to choose two different
modules or courses that you'd like to do,
and I think that's very nice; it kind of
allows for you to, you know, develop your
interest in particular fields, and yeah,
that's been really good. You also
have the opportunity throughout the
first and the second semester to work on
our own research project, and kind of
like with empirical research, going out
in the field, and that's
been really, really good as well and very,
very fun, and very kind of developing my
skills as a researcher.
We all come
from like a wide variety of well,
different countries and different places
within the UK as well, and I think that's
been really good because, we all have
kind of different experiences, but also
education wise we have different
experiences. I did my undergrad in Peace
and Conflict Studies which is obviously
like social science based, but it's
not criminology per se. So I think
we've all brought our different kind of
perspectives with us, and because it's
quite heavily like seminar based where
we do here, it kind of makes a lot of
interesting discussions thrive really.
I think Edinburgh is a great city for like
students like you, younger students, or
mature students, it's just got
a bit of everything. You're very
close to nature in a sense; obviously not
too far away from the highlands, but also
you've got Arthur's Seat, you've got
really beautiful places, like really
close to the city, you've got good
restaurants, you've got just the campus area
in general where Old College is
placed and where the other campuses are
placed as well, it's really quite central
and in really like historical parts of the city.
I've been offered a job for the
civil service as like, on a graduate
scheme basically, as a social researcher.
So I won't be working as a criminologist
per se, I'll be working as a social
researcher, and obviously I'm not really
sure what's gonna come in the future, 
but I think the programme has really
allowed you to develop skills that are
kind of applicable to different fields
so to speak, so what you really become is
like a social researcher, and then I
guess your interest or expertise would
lie in issues within the criminal
justice system and criminology, but I
will also say that it's very like
transferable skills, yes. So yeah, that's
what I'll be doing in the near future
anyway, yeah.
