MRes Urban Research

Comments about MRes Urban Research - At the institution - Glasgow - Scotland

• 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.
• Academic title
  MRes Urban Research
• 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.