MSc Wellbeing & Human Development (Department of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath)
Training Provider: University of Bath
This programme is aimed at:

• 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.

The programme aims to:

• 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/

MSc International Development - MID (Department of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath)
Training Provider: University of Bath
The Aims of the MSc International Development are:

• To review systematically, and to evaluate critically different ways of defining and measuring development and underdevelopment.
• To review systematically, and to evaluate critically explanations of development and underdevelopment from the perspective of different social sciences and schools of thought.
• To relate different theories of development to students' own experience, enabling them to bring to bear a wider range of ideas and perspectives on development issues and problems.
• To review systematically and critically the literature on contemporary issues in development.
• To review in more depth the development literature in specialist areas/fields of students' own choosing.
• To enable students to identify, research and develop their own original arguments in specialist areas of development of their own choosing.
• To enable students to identify and pursue in depth an original research question relating to some aspect of development of their own choosing.

The programme was designed for those students either already with a career in international development, or who wish to develop such a career.

Many past students have continued their career within the government or non-government organisation that sponsored their study and from which they came. Others have secured paid employment with a UK-based or international development agency for the first time. Recent "first time" employers include: Action Aid, Oxfam, Tear Fund, UK Department for International Development, Swedish International Development Agency, Food and Agriculture Organisation. Although graduates have historically been more likely to join non-profit agencies, a growing number subsequently work as private consultants. There is also an established tradition of students proceeding from the MSc programme onto MPhil/PhD programmes and academic careers.

MSc Globalisation and International Policy Analysis (Department of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath)
Training Provider: University of Bath

• To review systematically, and to evaluate critically the literature on the causes of globalisation and the impacts of globalisation on international policymaking from the perspective of different social sciences and schools of thought.
• To demonstrate a critical understanding of the institutional and policy environment within which governments, business and other actors are shaping the global system.
• Analyse the policy choices and conflicts with which these actors are presenting each other and the issues of public and private responsibility which these raise.
• To relate alternative theories of globalisation and policy making to students' own experience, enabling them to bring to bare a wider range of ideas and perspectives.
• To review in more depth the globalisation and international policymaking literature in specialist areas/fields of students' own choosing.
• To enable students to identify, research and develop their own original arguments in specialist areas of international policymaking of their own choosing.
• Develop practical skills of policy analysis and evaluation (learning by doing).
• To enable students to identify and pursue in depth an original research question relating to some aspect of globalisation and/or international policy making of their own choosing.

MSc Economics (Development )(Department of Economics, University of Bath)
Training Provider: University of Bath
The programme is designed for those students who either already have, or who wish to pursue, careers as: economists in general and those seeking an academic career; staff of international organisations and national governments working in economic analysis and policy roles, and; economists or managers in private sector business organisations (including the financial services sector).

This specialist MSc in Economics:

• Combines the academic study of theoretical and quantitative economics as in a conventional economics masters programme with a development specialism
• Provides an opportunity to produce a substantial dissertation on a research topic of your choice  

MRes International Development (Departmemt of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath)
Training Provider: University of Bath

• to systematically review and evaluate different research skills, methodologies and paradigms in International Development;
• to review systematically, and to evaluate critically, the application of these approaches in the specific areas of social and educational enquiry in which students are specialising;
• to support students, within an active research community, in identifying and investigating their own original research questions;
• to equip students with the skills to contribute to research projects using any of the main methodologies of the social sciences.
  
  

• First, those professionals who want to further develop their research and analytical skills in International Development.
• Second, those who wish to pursue a Masters in research as a precursor for PhD studies in International Development. The Master of Research in International Development is approved by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as a top quality research training degree that students can use for ESRC-funded PhD studies. ESRC is the most prestigious national institution for funding research in Britain and only few Masters have this recognition. The ESRC now requires that all the students whom it funds for doctoral studies should first complete a recognised programme of this kind (see http://www.esrc.ac.uk/esrccontent/postgradfunding/foindex.asp). Students applying for the MRes in International Development as preparation for a PhD at Bath are therefore eligible to apply for ESRC funding for the MRes/PhD 1+3 programme.
• More information at http://www.bath.ac.uk/soc-pol/postgraduate/mres-id/

MPhil/PhD in International Development (Department of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath)
Training Provider: University of Bath

• 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

BSc Economics (University of Bath)
Training Provider: University of Bath
 

• establish a firm disciplinary base in economics, a coherent understanding of the concepts and models of economics;
• develop an analytical and empirical understanding of the relevance of economics to contemporary problems and policies;
• analyse and evaluate economic problems so that they can reach considered and appropriate conclusions, and can competently communicate the reasoning behind these conclusions;
• focus knowledge of economics on issues of international development, and embrace different disciplinary perspectives;
• access a flexible educational framework that enables them to maintain a broad course of study, including the option to study a language;
• attain their full academic potential, within an environment which is constructively critical and where current research of staff members informs their teaching.