Social and Cultural Science (Research)

Overview

Programme overview

The Master's programme in Social and Cultural Science takes a multidisciplinary and multi-method approach to understanding key contemporary social issues, such as inequality, cohesion and cultural diversity.

You will benefit from working with a small group of highly motivated international students in courses designed for students enrolled in this programme. Every student receives personal guidance and supervision towards their own research project.

What will you learn?

• Understand the theoretical background to current social issues

• Gain the skills to translate social problems into research questions and conduct high quality comparative cultural research

• Get experience translating your skills and knowledge of theory and method to produce and communicate research findings

• Synthesise theories and methods across different disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, development studies, political science, and communication science

Career prospects

A large majority of our graduates gain PhD and other research positions.

Graduates from this programme could find jobs in a variety of different fields, almost all of our graduates find work shortly after graduation

Job positions

• Scientific or academic research

• Societal researcher in policy institutes or government organisations  

• Consultant or advisor for firms or other organisations

• Policymaker

• Journalist