Course summary

This programme's emphasis on independent research allows you to work closely with scholars who are leaders in their field. Research may be in any area of social, urban, environmental, development, political, economic, historical or cultural geography that is supported by the Human Geography Research Group. It is co-delivered with the University’s Graduate School of Social Science. The programme can stand alone as a masters degree, or form the first year of a ‘1+3’ ESRC-backed PhD programme. Students who successfully complete this programme will:

• acquire transferable skills relevant to advanced researchers

• develop skills in data acquisition and analysis

• understand wider methodological and epistemological debates relevant to their research

• Research Design

• Methodological Debates in Human Geography

• Core Quantitative Data Analysis 1 and 2

• Research Skills in the Social Sciences: Data Collection

• Dissertation in Human Geography

• Conducting Research Interviews

• Contemporary Social Theory

• The Documents of Life

• Explanation and Understanding in Social and Political Research

• Intermediate Inferential Statistics: Testing and Modelling

• Listening to Children: Research and Consultation

• Political Ecology

• Qualitative Methods and Ethnographic Fieldwork

• Survey Methods and Data

• Values and the Environment