Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 Year
This unique programme provides students with analytical training and an in-depth understanding of the challenges of contemporary humanitarian aid, its interaction with conflict and development and new directions in the field.
Throughout the programme students will develop wide-ranging knowledge of the field and the tools to critically engage with the pressing questions of power dynamics, politics, accountability, intersectionality, security and access that are facing humanitarian organisations, academics and local communities today.
The programme presents students with comprehensive engages with theoretical, conceptual and policy debates relating to the challenges of the global responses to conflict, disasters and emergencies, and the diverse range of critiques that have been made of it. Students will gain knowledge of the history of humanitarianism in different contexts around the world, the architecture of humanitarian aid, the range of key actors at the local, regional and international levels, emerging innovations, context-specific challenges and agendas from the Global South.
We will consider all applications with 2:2 (or international equivalent) or higher.
In addition to degree classification we take into account other elements of the application such as supporting statement. References are optional, but can help build a stronger application if you fall below the 2:2 requirement or have non-traditional qualifications.
A degree from the Department of Development Studies at SOAS will further develop your understanding of the world and how society is organised, with specific focus on violence and conflict, the role of aid, refugees and forced migration. Graduates leave with a range of transferable skills, including critical thinking, analytical skills and cultural awareness.
Recent graduates have been hired by:
Amnesty International
BBC World Service
British Embassy Brussels
Department for International Development
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
Embassy of Japan
Government of Pakistan
Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
International Labour Organization (ILO)
KPMG LLP
National Health and Medical Research Council
Overseas Development Institute
Oxfam
Royal Norwegian Embassy
Save the Children UK
The World Bank
Thinking Beyond Borders
U.S. Department of State
UN World Food Programme
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
WaterAid
Core
Dissertation in Development Studies - 60 credits
Open
Compulsory
Humanitarianism: Ideas, Actors and Debates - 15 credits
Open
Humanitarianism: Issues and Challenges - 15 credits
Open
Guided Option List A
30 credits from List A
Migration and Development: analytical and policy perspectives - 15 credits
Open
Migration and Development: contexts and engagements - 15 credits
Open
Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development: Foundations, Concepts, Debates - 15 credits
Open
Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development 2: Applied Topics and Interventions - 15 credits
Open
Guided Options
30-60 credits from Development Studies Guided Options
Civil society, social movements and the development process - 15 credits
Open
Gender and Development - 15 credits
Open
Development Practice - 15 credits
Open
Issues in Forced Migration - 15 credits
Open
Fundamentals of research methods for Development Studies - 15 credits
Open
War to Peace Transitions - 15 credits
Open
Security - 15 credits
Open
Borders and Development - 15 credits
Open
Global Commodity Chains, Production Networks and Informal Work - 15 credits
Open
Agrarian Development, Food Policy and Rural Poverty - 15 credits
Open
Aid and Development - 15 credits
Open
Migration and Policy - 15 credits
Open
Labour, Activism and Global Development - 15 credits
Open
Energy Transitions, Nature and Climate - 15 credits
Open
Environment, Governance and Development - 15 credits
Open
Global Health and Development - 15 credits
Open
Cities and Development - 15 credits
Open
Feminist Political Economy and Global Development - 15 credits
Open
Global Approaches to Peace - 15 credits
Open
International Development Virtual Placement - 15 credits
Open
Structural Change and Economic Development in Africa - 15 credits
Open
Open options
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