Science & Technology Policy & Management – (M.Sc.)

The programme aims to prepare students for positions in policy and management areas dealing with science, technology and innovation, primarily in public sector agencies, consultancies, professional and industry associations, trade unions and similar organisations. The programme covers theoretical and thematic grounding in sociological, economic and related treatments of science and technology. It also covers generic policy and management issues in science, technology and innovation and approaches to them.

It introduces appropriate disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, gives students opportunities to share and reflect on their experiences in practice, and to deal with issues relevant to the organisations and contexts they work in. Three specialist routes are offered: information and communication technologies; energy and environment; and life sciences and biotechnology.

Students who follow this programme will be able to: * demonstrate substantive knowledge and understanding of a selection of important policy and management issues in science, technology and innovation; * identify and characterise key theoretical approaches to understanding issues in science, technology and innovation, understand and evaluate policy and management processes and interventions in those areas; * critically evaluate contributions to the academic and public debates on these issues, and decisions on them; * apply these understandings and skills and deploy these approaches, concepts and techniques in analysing a new problem in policy or management in science, technology and innovation.