📖Program Curriculum
Year 1
Core Modules
Credits
Migration Studies: Issues & Perspectives
20.00
This module explores issues relating to international migration and their presentation in research in this field developing your critical awareness of this subject area. We will examine varied categories of migration identifying key trends patterns and debates relating to each of these as highlighted in current academic and policy research. Th...
Research Methods
20.00
Migration Policy and Governance
20.00
This module helps enhance your understanding of the challenges that international migration presents to policymakers and the origins and effectiveness of efforts to govern migration flows. With a focus on policy categories relating to different types of international migration you’ll examine the processes of agenda-setting and problem definition....
Postgraduate Migration Dissertation
60.00
This modules gives you the opportunity to conduct a substantial independent project under the guidance of a supervisor where you’ll develop a research question and implement a project that generates new knowledge in your field of study. This may be an empirical project a work-based learning project or equivalent alternative as appropriate.
Optional Modules
Credits
Case Studies: Working with Communities
20.00
This module introduces different critiques of working with and within communities from a criminological sociological and criminal justice perspective. It focuses on issues of working with and within communities including how to research communities seeks engagement with communities or work with individuals and groups who form those communities.
Refugee Studies
20.00
This module introduces the complex and multi-faceted landscape of forced migration and refugee studies. It is useful for anyone working with people who may be asylum seekers or refugees or who are refugees or asylum seekers themselves. You’ll gain an understanding of the politics policies and lived experiences of refugees and asylum seekers.
International Human Rights
20.00
This module explores key approaches and issues in international human rights law through examining the relationship between human rights law at the domestic regional and international levels. It will introduce you to the concept substance institutions and application of human rights law in the international context.
Vulnerable Groups in Forensic Settings
20.00
This module provides you with an in depth understanding of the complex psychological and social needs of vulnerable client groups enabling the development of skills to work efficiently and ethically with them. A range of approaches will be evaluated exploring the personal organisational and systemic challenges when working with such groups.
Psychology of Hope and Resilience
20.00
