Graduate taught

Our Master's programmes equip students with a range of highly valued skills for work in policy, practice and research settings.

The Social Research Institute has three distinct Master's programmes and one specialist pathway. Our programmes focus on:

• Social Research Methods MSc: Learning advanced skills for designing and critiquing quantitative and qualitative social research.
• Social Policy and Social Research MSc: Combining social policy understanding with advanced research methods training.
• Social Policy and Social Research (With Systematic Reviews) MSc: Learning advanced skills for conducting reviews of research so as to inform decision-making in society.
• Sociology of Childhood and Children's Rights MA: Developing understandings of global childhoods and children’s rights, and advanced skills for research with children and young people.