MSc Human Geography and Urban Studies (Research)

About the MSc programme

This programme will be of interest if you have studied geography or a related social science subject at undergraduate level and are now looking for a more focused introduction to human geographical research. It is designed as a preparation for study at PhD level, as well as further training in a broad range of substantive geographical and environmental themes.

Our MSc graduates enter a wide variety of employment including consultancy, the public sector and education.

Compulsory courses

(* half unit)

• Contemporary Debates in Human Geography Seminar*
• Dissertation

Options

Choose to the value of one unit from:

• Fundamentals of Social Science Research Design*
• Qualitative Research Methods*
• Doing Qualitative Fieldwork*
• Qualitative Research With Non-Traditional Data*
• Special Topics in Qualitative Research Methods*

Choose to the value of one and a half units from:

• Globalisation, Gender and Development
• Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction*
• Globalisation and Regional Development*
• Local Capacity and Economic Development Policy*
• Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives*
• Cities, People and Poverty in the South*
• Urban Ethnography*
• Cities and Social Change in East-Asia*
• Cities, Politics and Citizenship*
• Urban Theory, Policy and Practice in the Global South 
• Planning for Sustainable Cities*
• The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning*
• Social and Political Aspects of Regional and Urban Planning*
• Race and Space*
• Development, Diaspora and Migration*
• The Urban Revolution* 
• Other courses to the value of one and a half units as approved by the programme manager