MRes Political Science

Our key academic staff for this course are Professor Jonathan Slapin, who specializes on political organizations and political parties and whose research has received multiple awards Dr Simone Dietrich, who uses laboratory, field, and survey experiments to study foreign aid provision and its effect on economic and political development around the world Dr Daina Chiba, who has interests in the areas of militarised conflict, international institutions, and political methodology Dr Anna Getmansky, who works on the electoral impact of terrorism Laura Montanaro, who works on democratic theory in the area of non-electoral representation and Dr Alejandro Quiroz Flores, who studies the political economy of natural disasters as well as research methods Specialist facilities Laboratories of networked computers featuring extensive software for political analysis ESSEXLab provides opportunities for experimental lab research Student societies for politics, debating, and Model UN We organise the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis A programme of seminars and events run by the department Your future An MRes puts you in a particularly strong position to succeed in a research degree We offer supervision for PhD and MPhil in the following fields: government and politics ideology and discourse analysis international relations political behaviour political economy Our academic reputation is illustrated by the fact that many of our graduates now teach or research at universities, colleges of higher education and schools For example, recent graduates are now research fellows and academic staff at: Mannheim, Germany; ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Duke University, USA; NATO/SHAPE, Belgium; and University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Other recent graduates have gone on to work for the following high-profile organisations: The Civil Service Local government The World Bank The United Nations NATO YouGov and YouGov America We also work with the...