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MRes Urban Research
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Entry requirements
Entry requirements A first degree in a relevant subject. Applicants with relevant professional experience may be accepted with fewer qualifications. Please contact the programme director to discuss.
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Academic title
MRes Urban Research
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Course description
MRes: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time
PgDip: 9 months full-time; 18 months part-time
This programme provides excellent research training prior to a PhD and/or for employment in research or policy analysis in the public or voluntary sectors or in private practice.
Content
You will take three compulsory courses, three optional courses and a dissertation.
Compulsory courses
* Social science statistics 1
* Qualitative methods
* Introduction to social theory for researchers
* Urban theory.
Three optional courses from a list of over 20 courses, including
* Changing cities and neighbourhoods
* Housing market analysis
* Sustainable housing
* Risk and the environment
* Contemporary government and governance (urban)
* Economic development and employment
* Policy analysis
* Regenerating cities: strategies and evaluation
* Housing and social inclusion
* Regeneration and health
* Crime and community safety
* Strategic management and decision-making
* Partnership working and joined up government
* Spatial planning strategies
* Neighbourhood regeneration and community participation
* Designing places
* Advanced qualitative methods
* Social science statistics 2.
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