This programme, recognised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) under its 1+3 system (Masters plus PhD) for funding postgraduate studies, focuses on the development of the skills necessary to undertake research in the social sciences in general, and management and business studies in particular.

You take 80 credits of research training modules, 40 credits of specialist masters modules, and a research project culminating in a 12,000-word dissertation (60 credits).

Research training modules include: thinking about research; information skills; nature of explanation and enquiry; dissertation preparation; introduction to qualitative methods; and introduction to quantitative methods.

Specialist modules include: core readings in management and business studies; and research designs in management and business studies.

Teaching and learning take place in workshops and practical classes, lectures, seminars, team-based problem-solving groups and in supervisory meetings for research papers and the dissertation.