Masters courses

• September 2026 start
• 1 year 2 years Full-time Part-time

Investigate the latest digital media developments, data, and algorithms through the lens of prominent social issues, such as gender, race, health, intimacy, surveillance and activism. This course will advance your skills in qualitative, quantitative and digital research methods.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year Full-time

Learn about social and environmental justice, inequality, and rural and urban development. Gain applied knowledge and skills rooted in interdisciplinary learning and decolonising knowledge. Connecting theory with policy and practice, you’ll grow highly transferable career-enhancing skills.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year 2 years Full-time Part-time

What is the global economy and how is it shaped by relationships of power that are generated by political decision-making? Where traditional economics tends to focus on the market as something that simply exists, politics tends to ignore or underplay it. This course will show you that the two are inextricably linked.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year 2 years Full-time Part-time

How should we make sense of the many global challenges that are increasingly destabilising international politics? Learn how to practically address some of humanity’s most pressing challenges, from global heating and ecological destruction, to geopolitical conflict, public health crises and rapid technological change.

• September 2026 start
• 1 year 2 years Full-time Part-time

How do policymakers actually make policy? What are the effects on governance, and how do governing systems in turn shape policymaking? This course helps you answer these questions at every level of governance where political authority is exercised, from the very smallest local authority to large international organisations. It balances state-of-the-art academic theory with real-world practice to prepare you for working in the world of policymaking.