MA Gender and Global Sustainable Futures

Newcastle University

You’ll study gender alongside another social science, enabling you to:

• gain a strong intellectual grounding and apply academic theory and methods to create social change
• understand gender and intersecting issues at a high level of complexity
• become an independent researcher who can design, conduct and write up your own projects
• learn key transferable skills in research, communication, project management and ethics

Gender and Global Sustainable Futures

On this pathway you’ll develop the advanced knowledge and skills needed to identify challenges and solutions in sustainable futures.

You’ll also equip yourself with the skills to consider how these two subject areas can inform each other.

Your development

Throughout your degree you'll develop a range of professional, research and practical skills desired by a range of employers.

You will:

• Learn how to critically analyse important and pressing issues related to Gender and your combined subject area.
• Receive training from research active academics engaged in real world research.
• Become part of a vibrant research community and participate in research activities within the School.
• Develop your own supervisor-guided research project and present your work in progress at our annual MA conference.

At the end of your course you will have experience of:

• research design
• conducting fieldwork or document-based projects
• analysing and communicating rich and complex data
• communicating your ideas in diverse ways