Wellbeing & Human Development – (M.Sc.)

This MSc has been developed to reflect the increasing interest in ‘wellbeing’ from academic and policy circles in both developed and developing countries. The programme moves the debate on international development from a debate about ‘development’ to a debate on wellbeing and social justice. The programme provides students with the theoretical underpinnings of the concept of wellbeing and its policy implications and develops conceptual tools for the critical analysis of contemporary development debates from a wellbeing perspective.

The MSc in Wellbeing and Human Development is therefore distinctive from existing degrees in that:

* it deals explicitly with conceptual and normative aspects of international development and social policy arising from the wellbeing discourse
* it approaches international development with perspectives from psychology and ethics
* it enables insights from ‘development studies’ to be brought to the context of developed countries as a means of addressing the analytical divide that has existed between the study of ‘developing’ and ‘developed’ nations
* it analyses the specific aspects of ‘globalisation’ which relate to social justice and the struggle of each human being to attain a decent level of wellbeing.

Units studied include: Foundations of International Development, Wellbeing and Human Development: Concepts, Measurement & Policy, Development Ethics, Sustainable Livelihoods, Wellbeing assessment in public policy and development practice, Economics for international development, Sociology & social anthropology of development, Policy and politics of developing countries, Research skills and dissertation preparation.

Qualifications and durations
* Full-time MSc 1 year
* Full-time PG Diploma 9 months
* Full-time PG Certificate 4 months
* Part-time MSc 2 to 5 years
* Part-time PG Diploma 21 months