Program Overview

MSc Migration, Mobility and Development

Key Information

• Start date: September
• Duration: 1 year
• Attendance mode: Full-time or part-time
• Location: On Campus
• Fees:
  • Home: £12,220
  • International: £25,320
• Course code: L6V2
• Entry requirements: We will consider all applications with 2:2 (or international equivalent) or higher.

Course Overview

The MSc in Migration, Mobility and Development programme offers you the opportunity to combine study and analysis of critical perspectives on development and the related field of migration studies.

Structure

• Dissertation in Development Studies (60 credits)
• Migration and Development: analytical and policy perspectives (15 credits)
• Migration and Development: contexts and engagements (15 credits)
• Guided options - List A (30 credits)
  • Political Economy of Development: Foundational Concepts (15 credits)
  • Political Economy of Development: applied topics and policy debates (15 credits)
  • Theories of Development (15 credits)
  • Policy and Practice of Development (15 credits)
• Guided options (minimum 30 credits)
  • Civil society, social movements and the development process (15 credits)
  • Gender and Development (15 credits)
  • Development Practice (15 credits)
  • Issues in Forced Migration (15 credits)
  • Fundamentals of research methods for Development Studies (15 credits)
  • War to Peace Transitions (15 credits)
  • Security (15 credits)
  • Borders and Development (15 credits)
  • Global Commodity Chains, Production Networks and Informal Work (15 credits)
  • Agrarian Development, Food Policy and Rural Poverty (15 credits)
  • Aid and Development (15 credits)
  • Migration and Policy (15 credits)
  • Labour, Activism and Global Development (15 credits)
  • Energy Transition, Nature, and Development in a Time of Climate Change (15 credits)
  • Environment, Governance and Development (15 credits)
  • Global Health and Development (15 credits)
  • Cities and Development (15 credits)
  • Feminist Political Economy and Global Development (15 credits)
  • Global Approaches to Peace (15 credits)
  • Structural Change and Economic Development in Africa (15 credits)
• Open options (maximum 30 credits)

Teaching and Learning

Our teaching and learning approach is designed to support and encourage students in their own process of self-learning, and to develop their own ideas, responses and critique of international development practice and policy.

• Dissertation: In addition to the taught part of the masters programme, all students will write a 10,000 word dissertation.
• Contact hours: All Masters programmes consist of 180 credits, made up of taught modules of 30 or 15 credits, taught over 10 or 20 weeks, and a dissertation of 60 credits.

Employment

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
• Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
• National Health and Medical Research Council
• Overseas Development Institute
• Oxfam
• Royal Norwegian Embassy
• Save the Children UK
• The World Bank
• Thinking Beyond Borders
• US Department of State
• UN World Food Programme
• UN High Commissioner for Refugees
• WaterAid

Scholarships

• Tibawi Trust Award
• Commonwealth Shared Scholarships
• Felix Non-Indian Scholarship
• Felix Scholarships
• Sasakawa Studentships
• SOAS Master's Scholarships (Home)

Staff

• Dr Paolo Novak, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies

Research

• Border crossings: Exploring history and community through virtual reality at the 75th anniversary of the Partition
• London International Development Centre Migration Leadership Team
• Research and Evidence Facility: Informing migration policy in the Horn of Africa
• Drugs & (dis)order
• The AGRUMIG project: "Leaving something behind"
• Industrial Development, Construction and Employment in Africa (IDCEA): A comparative analysis