• The University of Bath rated in the top 12 universities in the UK in the Guardian and Times Good University Guides, 2008
• The department places great emphasis on the constructive relationship between its active research agenda and its postgraduate provision

• recent graduates who are interested in poverty, both globally and in the UK, and international issues and who are seeking a deeper conceptual and ethical understanding of this new discourse than is offered by conventional courses in ‘development studies’;
  
  
• professionals working in development policy and practice for whom the discourse of well-being is becoming increasingly relevant, and who would like to deepen their understanding of human wellbeing from an interdisciplinary perspective and with a strong policy focus.

• To provide a systematic understanding of the theories and concepts underlying the discourses of wellbeing and human development.
  
  
• To review systematically and critically the literature on contemporary issues in wellbeing and human development.
  
  
• To critically evaluate public policy from the perspective of human wellbeing.
  
  
• To analyze critically and rigorously the ethical underpinnings of development policy and practice.
  
  
• To enable students to identify and pursue their own research questions, and research and develop original arguments in specialist areas of their choosing.
  
  
• To develop critical skills to draw policy implications from research.

For more information see http://www.bath.ac.uk/soc-pol/postgraduate/mid/