The MSc in Social Research Methods aims to provide students with competence in a broad range of social scientific methods appropriate for either discipline-based or interdisciplinary research.
Tutors are drawn from across the social sciences at Sussex, ensuring that each student is exposed to a wide range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives.
In addition to generic social science research training, students can take subject-specific courses in theory and philosophy, a thematic course in their subject, and a subject-based research elective.
The research elective combines individual supervised study and attendance at research seminars, leading to a dissertation on a specialist topic of the student’s choice. This allows students to place their specific area of research interest into a wider context, and provides the opportunity to develop a full research proposal for subsequent doctoral research.
The MSc SRM is specifically designed to meet new ESRC postgraduate training requirements for the social sciences and most students will be following the programme with this ultimate aim in mind. A minority of students will be taking the MSc as a stand-alone programme, particularly if they intend to enter a career involving the commissioning or evaluating of research findings in public organisations.
At the end of the programme, the successful student will be able to:
- Demonstrate competence in specific techniques of data collection and analysis.
- Design, under supervision, a research project suitable for MPhil or PhD awards.
- Demonstrate an understanding of a range of epistemological and methodological positions within social science research.
- Demonstrate the capacity to apply their skills within a particular disciplinary or interdisciplinary context.
The MSc in Social Research Methods is run by the Sussex ESRC Doctoral Training Centre, in the Doctoral School. If you have any queries, please Contact Us
How to Apply: details of how to apply are available here.
Please note: in the online Postgraduate Prospectus you arrive at the MSc in Social Research Methods via the Subject Area you are interested in. So for example, if you are a Sociologist interested in the MSc, you would need to follow the links via Sociology to the MSc in Social Research Methods.
More about the programme is available here.