(NEW) Political Economy MSc
An advanced social science degree that equips leaders and scholars with the knowledge and methodological skills they need to shape politically realistic economic policy.
Public Management & Leadership (MPA)
The MPA offers an applied, problem-based approach, blending new theoretical developments and practice, with a view to managing public policies domestically and overseas.
Democracy & Comparative Politics MSc
This MSc focuses on the design, creation, and operation of democratic institutions.
Global Governance & Ethics MSc
This MSc combines normative and empirical approaches to international justice, organisations and processes, and applies them to analysis.
Human Rights MA
The Human Rights MA develops the skills and theoretical tools needed to carry out human rights research.
International Public Policy MSc
This programme brings together the academic study of international relations with analysis of public policy formulation and governance beyond the nation-state.
Legal & Political Theory MA
This MA provides students with key analytical skills to study the ethical dimensions of public policy.
Climate Change Policy and Politics MSc
An advanced social science degree that equips the next generation of climate leaders with the knowledge, methods and technical skills they need to develop politically-intelligent policies.
Security Studies MSc
Apply empirical methods to explore the causes of terrorism, civil, and international conflict, the application of military force, humanitarian intervention, and the provision of global public goods.
Public Policy MSc
Familiarising a new generation of public policymakers and policy analysts with the necessary concepts, theories, methods and principles involved in the formulation and analysis of public policy.
Data Science and Public Policy MSc
A one-year, full-time degree which combines intensive training in applied data science, programming, statistics and machine learning with specialised study in economics and political science.
Postgraduate Modules
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Introduction to Quantitive Methods
Dr Jack Blumenau (Associate Professor of Political Science and Quantitive Research Methods) discusses the problems and questions the quantitive methods training will help you to answer and solve.
Dissertation Podcast
Hear from four of our past students on what it is like to write a dissertation for one of our masters programmes.
