MSc Social Science Research
Course Overview
Our ESRC-accredited MSc Social Science Research programme is a prestigious degree designed to cultivate the next generation of researchers for careers in academia, policy, and industry. The course provides a rigorous foundation in advanced research methodologies, ethics, and design across ten specialized pathways. Graduates are fully equipped with the expert skills required to independently undertake and lead sophisticated social science research.
Key Program Highlights
- Accredited by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Choice of 10 specialized pathways to align with your research interests
- Core training in advanced quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research
- Prepares graduates for both PhD study and professional research careers
- Thriving interdisciplinary research environment with access to leading research centres
Course Overview
Our ESRC-accredited MSc Social Science Research programme is a prestigious degree designed to cultivate the next generation of researchers for careers in academia, policy, and industry. The course provides a rigorous foundation in advanced research methodologies, ethics, and design across ten specialized pathways. Graduates are fully equipped with the expert skills required to independently undertake and lead sophisticated social science research.
Key Program Highlights
- Accredited by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Choice of 10 specialized pathways to align with your research interests
- Core training in advanced quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research
- Prepares graduates for both PhD study and professional research careers
- Thriving interdisciplinary research environment with access to leading research centres
Requirements
Modules
- Research Design and Research Practice
- Understanding Contemporary Media
- Media Industries and Professions
- International Politics: Issues and Policies
- Contemporary Issues in Criminology and Criminological Theory
- Building Data Driven Strategy
- Discovery Analytics
- The Development of Sport
- Psychology of Exercise for Clinical Populations
- Self-Regulation in Sport and Exercise
- Psychology of Exercise for Clinical Populations
- Financial Globalization
- Climate Futures
- Understanding Contemporary Media
- Digital Economies
- Researching Communications 1: Media Users and Cultural Industries
- Studying Talk and Social Interaction
- Climate Futures
- Mapping and Modelling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Research Traditions in Education
- Advanced Quantitative Research Methods in Social Science
- Dissertation in Social Science Research
- Media Representations, Identity and Digital Culture
- Researching Communications 2: Texts and Digital Platforms
- Media Representations, Identity and Digital Culture
- Sports Criminology
- Managing Big Data
- The Economics of Sustainability and Net Zero
- Social Processes in Sport
- Sports Criminology
- Mental Health in Sport and Exercise
- Social Processes in Sport
- The Global Financial System under Climate Change
- Climate Science into Practice
- Data, Power and Democracy
- Researching Communications 2: Texts and Digital Platforms
- Researching Communications 2: Texts and Digital Platforms
- Economic Modelling and Policy for Sustainable Development
- Climate Science into Practice
- Economic Modelling and Policy for Sustainable Development
- Strategic Interaction
- Researching Communications 2: Texts and Digital Platforms
- Qualitative Research
- Advances in Ethnography
- Dissertation in Social Science Research
