MRes Security, Conflict and Human Rights

at University of Bristol

Year 1

Unit name

• Conceptual Issues in Security, Conflict, and Human Rights
• Advanced Interdisciplinary Research Design
• Dissertation (SWDTC)
   

The research training units "Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences" & "Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences" run a number of times across the Faculty. Students may request to take whichever unit best fits their timetable, but requests are subject to space constraints.
 

• Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences
• Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences
   

In addition to the mandatory units and the dissertation, students choose additional units from the list below or other optional units at Bristol, Bath or Exeter by agreement with the programme director. Depending on the institution offering them, units may be of different credit values; the minimum volume of credit required for this programme is 180.
 

• Theoretical Approaches to Security
• International Security
• Feminisms and International Relations
• Theories of International Relations
• International Political Economy
• Theories of Development
• Governance, Institutions and the Global Political Economy
• Foreign Policy Analysis
• Gender and Violence: International and Global Perspectives
• Migration, asylum and human rights: EU and global policy perspectives.
• Human Rights in Law, Politics and Society
• Interpreting Gender
• Global transformations: Issues and Trajectories
• Advanced Qualitative Research
• Climate Crisis and International Security
• Gender and Development
• Gender and Security
• Society, Politics and Climate Change
• The Politics of (Un)sustainability
• Security Governance

An upper second-class honours degree (or equivalent qualification) in a related field.
 

IELTS Academic for UKVI from authorised test centres only (otherwise see English language proficiency tests):

• 6.5 overall with 6.5 in all skills

Fees

• UK: full-time £4,565
   
• Overseas: full-time £19,500

The MRes in Security, Conflict and Human Rights offers useful preparation for a number of careers. Foremost, the MRes is the academic basis and preparation for students choosing the 1+3 programme (the first year is the MRes and the +3 the PhD).

The programme emphasises ESRC-accredited research methods training, the ability to plan, research and write a sophisticated dissertation, and the ability to think in broad theoretical and interdisciplinary terms about challenging issues. These provide an ideal introduction to academic research and to working for NGOs.

It would be of interest to anyone pursuing a career in international security, development and conflict issues, international development departments of government, policy research, consultancy, the civil service or the military.