MSc Research for International Development

Overview

Students must take 180 credits comprised of 120 taught credits (including core and option modules) and a 60 credit dissertation.

All students take core modules, ‘Battlefields of Method’, ‘Statistical Research Techniques in International Development’, ‘Research Methods in International Development’ and a ‘Dissertation in Development Studies’.

Specialisation

Students also take option modules from those offered by the Department of Development Studies and the Department of Economics. Please note that economics modules can only be taken with the permission of the specific Module Convenor and will depend on a specific background in economics.

Please note that not all option modules may run every year. Modules at other institutions (intercollegiate) are not part of the approved programme structure.

Part-time study

Students can take this programme part-time over 2 or 3 years. Students usually complete their core modules in Year 1 and their option modules and dissertation in subsequent years.

Students take the following FOUR core modules:

• Battlefields of Method: Approaches to International Development Research
• Dissertation in Research Methods for International Development
• Statistical Research Techniques in International Development
• Research Methods in International Development

Students choose modules to the value of 60 credits from lists below:

• Aid and Development
• Agrarian Development, Food Policy and Rural Poverty
• Borders and Development
• Civil society, social movements and the development process
• Development Practice
• Environment, Governance and Development
• Energy Transition, Nature, and Development in a Time of Climate Change
• Famine and food security
• Gender and Development
• Global Commodity Chains, Production Networks and Informal Work
• Global Health and Development
• Issues in Forced Migration
• Marxist Political Economy and Global Development
• Migration and Policy
• Neoliberalism, Democracy and Global Development
• Problems of Development in the Middle East and North Africa
• Natural resources, development and change: putting critical analysis into practice
• Security
• The Working Poor and Development
• Understanding Economic Migration: Theories, Patterns and Policies
• War to Peace Transitions
• Water and Development:Conflict and Governance
• Water Resources: Justice and Governance

Students need to get approval from the Module Convenor in order to take modules from the list below:

• African Economic Development 1 (MSc RID)
• African Economic Development 2 (MSc RID)
• China's Economic Transformation
• China and World Development
• Economic development of South Asia a) the macroeconomy
• Economic Development of Japan
• Economic Development of South Asia B) Major Sectors & The International Economy
• Economics of Environment and Development
• Financial Systems and Economic Development
• Gender Economics (PG)
• Global Economic Policy Analysis
• Global Production and Industrial Policy
• History of Economic Analysis
• Institutions and Governance
• Macroeconomics
• Microeconomics
• The economic development of South East Asia
• Theory of financial institutions & policy

• Gender in the Middle East

All MSc students in Development Studies are eligible to attend the one-term, non-assessed course, Economics for Beginners, which introduces students to basic concepts in microeconomics, macroeconomics, development economics, and statistics and econometrics.

If you are a current student you can find structure information on Moodle or through your Department.

• Programme Specification 17/18 (pdf; 203kb)
• Programme Specification 2016/17 (pdf; 163kb)

Important notice regarding changes to programmes and modules