MSc Development Management

About the MSc programme

This programme is centred on a core course that employs a comparative political economy approach to examine the institutional roots of development and non-development. All students must take the core course and complete a dissertation of up to 10,000 words. Students also participate in a live group 'consultancy project' for a leading development agency, which forms part of their total assessment. You have the opportunity to attend a weekly lecture series that brings to the School prominent scholars and practitioners who discuss the findings and methodological dimensions of development research and/or problems of development practice. Students benefit from joining a highly selective and diverse group of fellow students, bringing practical experience from all over the world. The analytical skills developed here have secured past graduates promising careers in organisations as diverse as central banks, NGOs, multilateral organisations, charities, investment banks, consultancies, manufacturing firms, religious missions, and has independent writers and experts.

Compulsory courses

• Development Management
• Dissertation

Options

(* half unit)

Choose courses to the value of two full units from the following list in consultation with your supervisor. 

Accounting

• Accounting in the Global Economy*
• Management Accounting, Decisions and Control*
• Financial Accounting: Reporting and Disclosure*  

Development Studies

• Poverty*
• Economic Development Policy
• Population and Development: an Analytical Approach*
• Environmental Problems and Development Interventions*
• Global Environmental Governance*
• African Development*
• Complex Emergencies*
• Emerging Health Threats and Development*
• Global Political Economy of Development I*
• Global Political Economy of Development II*
• Managing Globalisation*
• Public Management of Development*
• Managing Humanitarianism*
• Global Civil Society* 
• Nationalism, Democracy and Development in Contemporary India*
• IT and Socio-economic Development
• Aspects of IT and Socio-economic Development*
• China in Developmental Perspective*
• Human Security*
• The Informal Economy and Non-State Governance*
• Key Issues in Development Studies*

Economics

• The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning* 

Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour

• Organisational Behaviour*
• Organisational Change*

Gender

• Globalisation, Gender and Development
• Gender, Post-colonialism, Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions* 

Government

• Public Management Theory and Doctrine*
• Public Management: A Strategic Approach*
• Democratisation and its Discontents in Southeast Asia

Geography

• Globalisation, Regional Development and Policy
• Local Economic Development and Policy
• Globalisation and Regional Development
• Economics of Local and Regional Development*
• Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives*
• Environment and Development
• Cities, People and Poverty in the South*
• Cities, Culture and Politics in the South* 
• Urban Ethnography*
• Urban Theory, Policy and Practice in the Global South
• The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning*
• Race and Space*
• Development, Diaspora and Migration*
• Environment and Development: Sustainability, Technology and Business*
• Environment and Development: Resources, Institutions and the Global South*

Management

• Business Model Innovation at the 'Base of the Pyramid'*

Social Policy  

• Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global South*
• Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Implementation and Evaluation*  
• Basic Education for Social Development*
• Migration: Population Trends and Policies*
• Planning for Population and Development*

Any other MSc level course in the School, selected in consultation with the student's supervisor and approved by the programme director.

Note that not all of the above optional courses will be available every year.

Some options have prerequisites, while others have limited places.

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