MA Contemporary Human Geography Research Methods

at University of Liverpool

Whole Session

• ENVS434: Space, Power and Culture (15 Credits)
   

Semester One

• ENVS450: Social Survey Analysis (15 credits)
• ENVS441: Qualitative Research Methodologies (15 credits)
• SOCI504: Philosophy of Social Science (15 credits)
• SOCI501: The Politics and Practices of Social Research (15 credits)
   

Semester Two

• ENVS416: Theorising Human Geography (15 credits)
• ENVS489: Researching Space, Power and Culture (15 credits)
   

Then either:
 

• ENVS453: Spatial Analysis (15 Credits)
   

OR
 

• 3 Optional 5 Credit Research Training Modules in Sociology. A range of 10-12 modules are on offer here and they change to ensure the most popular modules are available to students. They have in recent years included Participatory Action Research, Visual Methods, Foucault’s Methods, Ethnomethodology and Conservation Analysis, Narrative Interviewing, Photography and Creative Practice and Doing Twitter Analytics. (Total of 15 credits)
   

Summer

• ENVS493: Dissertation (60 credits)

The typical entry requirement is a Bachelors degree (with Honours) at 2:1 level or better in an appropriate field of study. Individual consideration is given to mature students with significant and relevant experience and with professional qualifications.
 

2:1 BSc or above (or equivalent for overseas students) in Science or Mathematics.
 

English language qualifications

All applicants must have reached a minimum required standard of English language, and are required to provide evidence of this. Qualifications accepted by the University include: GCSE English; GCE O level English; AS Level English; A Level English Language; IELTS; TOEFL; Cambridge Proficiency etc. 
 

If you meet the academic requirements of the course but do not have the required level of English Language, it is possible for you to come and study at the University on one of our Pre-sessional EAP programmes.  Please see the English Language Centre website for further information about these programmes;
 

• IELTS    6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each component)
• TOEFL iBT    88 or above with minimum scores in components as follows: Listening and Writing 17, Reading 17, Speaking 19.
• International Baccalaureate    Standard Level 5
• Hong Kong use of English AS level    C
• INDIA Standard XII    70% or above from Central and Metro State Boards
• WAEC    C4-6
   

Please be advised that TOEFL is no longer classified by UK Visas and Immigration as a Secure English Language Test (SELT). However, at the current time the university is continuing to accept TOEFL, at the required level, for entry on to Undergraduate and Postgraduate academic programmes. 

Tuition fees (Home)
 

• The University's tuition fees are normally fixed at yearly intervals and follow Government guidelines on minimum levels. The normal tuition fee for Home (UK) postgraduate taught students per year (for the academic year 2022/23, unless otherwise specified) are stated below.  Please note that part-time fees are charged at 50% of the full-time fee shown below per year (unless otherwise specified). 
• In addition to your tuition fees, you may incur other costs in relation to your studies such as photocopying in the library, buying textbooks and specialist equipment or going on field classes. See our study costs page for full details.
   

Fee for this course    Year 1: £10,000

International students
 

• International students are required to pay the full costs of their tuition in the UK with each university setting its own international fees. 
• The University of Liverpool's fees represent excellent value for money for a Russell Group University. The normal tuition fee for full-time international postgraduate taught students per year (for the academic year 2022/23, unless otherwise specified) will be as follows:
   

International fee for this course    Year 1: £20,000

Our degrees provide pathways into rewarding careers and our graduates have found employment in a wide range of industries and organisations, both in the UK and abroad. Graduates of the Environment and Climate Change MSc have gone on to continue their studies towards a PhD, or are employed in a wide range of positions, including environmental, energy and engineering consultancies, multinational companies (energy),  local government, environmental bodies, research positions and teaching.
 

PhD graduates are now working in academic life as lecturers in Geography, Environmental Science, Economic History, Development Studies and Statistics at universities in the UK and overseas. Others are employed in applied fields, working in Europe, Africa and across the world, for example as professional statisticians (one is now Director of Statistics in Zambia, another working in the Health Service in the UK), development professionals (including a member of staff on the WHO malaria programme in East Africa), and scientists at climate and environmental research centres around the world.
 

Students will be well placed to undertake a career in social science research at the end of their studies, both in an academic and a non-academic environment.