Gender and Development MA

Master

In Brighton

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Brighton

  • Duration

    1 Year

Having recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, this is one of the longest running courses on gender and development.

You'll gain a solid understanding of debates in feminist thinking, and link them to gendered policy and programming. You develop in-depth knowledge and capacity for gendered analysis of specific issues such as:
women’s empowerment
political economy and the environment
masculinities and patriarchy.

Our groundbreaking work challenges ideas about gender. We work with nuanced, fluid perspectives on gender and sex, and the ways they interact. You’ll gain the skills required to participate effectively in gender- and development-related research, policy-making and programme implementation.

We're home to some of the world's leading thinkers on gender and development. Your course teachers are all active in the field, working on high-level policy-oriented programming and cutting-edge academic research funded by UK and European Research councils, and philanthropic organisations from across the world.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Brighton (East Sussex)
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Sussex House, BN1 9RH

Start date

On request

About this course

Our graduates become specialists and advisers in gender and human rights for governments and development organisations worldwide –including ministries of foreign affairs in countries such as Azerbaijan and Indonesia, UNIFEM, USAID and the UK’s Department for International Development.

Some of our graduates also go on to teach gender studies in universities around the world.

Graduate destinations
100% of students from the Institute of Development Studies were in work or further study six months after graduating. Recent IDS students have gone on to jobs including:

humanitarian worker, GOAL Global
programme officer, European Commission
refuge worker, Crossroads.

You should normally have an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree or above.

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Subjects

  • Programming
  • Research
  • Design
  • Dissertation
  • Gender
  • Identity
  • Inclusion
  • Theoretical
  • Development
  • Professional

Course programme

Modules

These modules are running in the academic year 2018/19. We also plan to offer them in future academic years. They may become unavailable due to staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of such changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Core modules

Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.
  • Research Design
  • Dissertation Gender and Development
  • Gender, Identity and Inclusion
  • The Politics of Gender
  • Theoretical Approaches to Gender and Development
Options

Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests.
  • Aid and Poverty: the Political Economy of International Development Assistance
  • Climate Change and Development
  • Competing in the Green Economy
  • Development in Cities
  • Governance of Violent Conflict and (In)security
  • Health and Development
  • Nutrition
  • Poverty, Violence and Conflict
  • Public Financial Management
  • Reflective and Creative Practice for Social Change
  • Sexuality and Development: Intimacies, Health and Rights in Global Perspective
  • Theory and Practice of Impact Evaluation
  • Unruly Politics

Additional information

Fees Fees are not yet set for entry in the academic year 2019/20 but will be published here as soon as they are available. Note that your fees, once they’re set, may be subject to an increase on an annual basis.

Gender and Development MA

Price on request