MSc Applied Social Data Science

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Sep 2025
Sep 2026
Duration
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4 - 6 weeks after your application is submitted
Backlogs accepted
This course accepts backlogs

Overview

  • You will develop the ability to apply data analysis techniques to a range of substantive and policy related questions
  • Choose to specialise within a policy subfield such as social and family policy, economic and public policy, environment, criminal justice and security
  • Delivered by the highly successful Q-Step Centre for Applied Data Analysis. Teaching covers a range of data analytic techniques and practical software and programming skills
  • Put your market-leading social data science skills into practice with optional work placements or industry-based research consultancy projects
  • You’ll gain an understanding of complex political and cultural issues, often in continually changing environments which will be relevant to both business and public sector careers or PhD study

Careers

You will develop a number of skills that are valued in professional and managerial careers: the ability to research and analyse information from a variety of sources along with written and verbal skills needed to present and discuss your opinions. The understanding you will gain of complex political and cultural issues, often in continually changing environments, can also be relevant to both business and public sector appointments.

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Requirements

The requirements may vary based on your selected study options.





















Modules

  • Social Data Science and Policy Analytics
  • Data Visualisation
  • Mathematics and Programming Skills for Policy Analytics
  • Policy Analytics: Dissertation or Research Consultancy Project
  • Text as Data
  • Applied Skills: Becoming an Effective Negotiator
  • Yes Special Adviser. Political Advisers and Policy Making in a Global Perspective
  • Applied Skills: Becoming an Effective Negotiator
  • Applied Analytics: Understanding Self and Others in a Post Conflict World
  • Applied Analytics: Understanding Self and Others in a Post Conflict World
  • Using Longitudinal Data in Family Policy Studies
  • Data Governance and Ethics
  • Introduction to Social Network Analysis
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    Use our magical AI system, to check your admission chances for this course.
    Tuition fee
    Apply by
    Start date
    Sep 2025
    Sep 2026
    Duration
    Campus
    Mode of study
    Fees and deadlines depend on the selected options. Fees and currency conversion are approximate.
    Offer response
    4 - 6 weeks after your application is submitted
    Backlogs accepted
    This course accepts backlogs