MSc in Global and Planetary Health

at Durham University

Course structure

Core modules
 

• Anthropology of Global Health
• Planetary Health in Social Context
• Society, Energy, Environment and Resilience

Plus one dissertation module
 

• Dissertation
• Vocational Dissertation (including placement)

A maximum of two from this list
 

• Fieldwork and Interpretation
• Field Study
• Statistical Analysis in Anthropology

Optional modules may include
 

• Context and Challenges in Energy and Society
• Society, Health and Wellbeing
• Advanced Studies in Anthropological Skills for Climate Change Survival
• Anthropology and Development
• Interrogating Ethnography
• Thinking Anthropologically
• Understanding Society and Culture
• *Advanced Studies in Anthropological Skills for Climate
• Change Survival
• *Advanced Studies in Anthropology of Tobacco
• *Advanced Studies in Capitalism in Ruins
• *Advanced Studies in Development, Conflict, and Crisis in the Lower Omo Valley
• *Advanced Studies in Power and Governance
• *Advanced Studies in The Anthropology of Health Inequality
• *Advanced Studies in Poison, Pollution, and The Chemical Anthropocene
• *Environmental Economics and Policy (Economics)
• *Environmental Valuation (Economics)
• *Natural Resource Management (Economics)
• *Hydrology and Water Resources (Engineering)
• *Critical Medical Humanities: Frameworks and Debates (English Studies)
• *Understanding Risk (Geography)
• *Climate, Risk and Society (Geography)
• *Using Geographical Skills and Techniques (Geography)
• *Risk, Science and Communication (Geography)
• *Hydro-Meteorological Hazards (Geography)
• *Risk Frontiers (Geography)
• *Climate Change Law and Policy (Law)
• *Global Environmental Law (Law)
• *Medical Law and Ethics (Law)
• *Contemporary Issues in Medical Law (Law)
• *Science, Medicine and The Enlightenment (Philosophy)
• *Ethics, Medicine and History (Philosophy)
• *Philosophical Issues in Science and Medicine (Philosophy)
• *Sociology of Health and Illness (Sociology)
• *Communities, Civil Society and Social Justice (Sociology)
• *Participatory Action Research (Sociology)
• A credit-bearing language module offered by the Centre for Foreign Language Studies

*may not run every year

NB The optional modules in English and Modern Languages are both subject to the approval of new Master’s degrees in Medical Humanities and Environmental Humanities respectively.

• Normally a minimum 2:1 Honours degree from a UK institution (or the overseas equivalent) in a relevant subject. This requirement may be waived for applicants with particularly high levels of relevant practical or professional experience
• Strength of personal statement, experience in a non-academic engagement with sustainability or development issues (whether salaried, volunteer or self-directed) and quality of references will be taken into consideration.
• IELTS at least 6.5* (and with no component under 6*) or equivalent scores in an alternative accepted English language test. 

Fees and funding
 

• Home students    £11,300 per year
• EU students    £24,200 per year
• Island students    £11,300 per year
• International students    £24,200 per year

The tuition fees shown are for one complete academic year of study, are set according to the academic year of entry, and remain the same throughout the duration of the programme for that cohort (unless otherwise stated).

Students with a postgraduate qualification in Anthropology pursue a diverse array of careers in areas such as conservation, tourism, public health, health research and management, captive primate care and zoological research management, local government research and management, education (secondary, further and higher), social care, social research, in addition to academia.