MSc Programmes

The Department of Gender Studies serves as a focus for gender research across the LSE, and works to promote a close relationship between policy makers and the academy. LSE Gender provides a vibrant research culture with resident Research Fellows, visiting scholars, public lectures and conferences, and a regular programme of research seminars.

You can meet the Department here. 

LSE Gender currently runs eight master's programmes with around 150 students each year from different academic backgrounds and from a wide range of countries. LSE Gender has an extensive range of over 20 courses attracting students from a variety of other LSE departments. You find find a list of our courses here.

2025-26 - Prospective Students

• Applications for September 2025 entry are now open.
• The Graduate Financial Support Application is now open. This application is open to all applicants in need of financial support, with awards from the Graduate Support Scheme ranging between £5000 and £15,000. Students who receive an offer to study at the department, and who have completed the Graduate Financial Support Application, can also be put forward for the LSE Master's Award.
• Please check the central LSE webpages for programme availability and more information on the admissions process. 
• Find more information on LSE's Virtual Graduate Events here.
• For a sense of what goes on at LSE Gender, check out our Instagram, Bluesky & YouTube

MSc Programmes

MSc Gender

We train MSc Gender students in how to treat gender as an object of study, as an analytic approach or perspective and as a way of thinking across disciplinary boundaries.

MSc Gender (Research)

In many ways similar to MSc Gender, this degree programme further emphasises research design, epistemology, methodology and research methods, introducing students to the significance of gender in producing as well as consuming knowledge.

MSc Gender (Rights and Human Rights)

This research-led programme provides students with an in-depth knowledge of the epistemological, conceptual, and empirical contexts in which gender and human rights operate and circulate around the globe.

MSc Gender (Sexuality)

This interdisciplinary degree programme foregrounds the relevance of theory to transnational issues of sexual activism and legal frames.

MSc Gender, Development and Globalisation

This programme draws on a wide range of perspectives and considers diverse analytical tools for the analysis of development and globalisation from a uniquely gendered perspective.

MSc Gender, Media and Culture

In this programme, students are encouraged to interrogate a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to the gendered analysis of contemporary media and culture.

MSc Gender, Peace and Security

This unique, multi-disciplinary programme is concerned with the ways in which women and gender are understood in relation to, and affected by, regional, national and global peace and security processes in conflict and post-conflict settings.

MSc Gender, Policy and Inequalities

The MSc Gender, Policy and Inequalities provides advanced study in the application of gender theory to social policy, planning and practice with an interdisciplinary approach.

MSc Social Research Methods (Gender)

 This programme stream is run by the Department of Methodology but is the entry point to our ESRC 1+3 programme - please see our PhD page for further information if you are interested in this route.