Social Research - MA

This MA in Social Research provides a rigorous introduction to key issues in social science methodology, expands your proficiency in a range of research skills, and prepares you for further advanced research in the social sciences.

Five different pathways are available: Sociology; Gender and Women’s Studies; Media and Cultural Studies; Environment, Culture and Society; Science, Technology, Innovation and Social Practices.

The MA and its tailored pathways represent an ideal stepping stone to a PhD and open access to ESRC and AHRC funding programmes. Students will carry out hands on training in selected research methods and skills, and will become skilled in the translation of theoretically informed research questions into research projects. As part of the MA students will complete an extensive independent piece of research.

The programme consists of five core modules, one optional module and a dissertation and the modules undertaken will depend on your choice of pathway.

Course Structure

This MA has five different pathways available which allow students to tailor the programme to their own interests without losing the focus on research training. Below is a sample of modules which are available to students on this programme - for full details please read more about our pathways.

Core

• Research Projects in Practice: From Design to Dissemination
• Quantitative Research Methods 2
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Contemporary Debates in Sociology
• Dissertation

Optional

• The Social Life of Science and Technology: Theories and Debates
• Critical Debates in Media and Cultural Studies
• Debates in Gender Research
• Gender, Sex and Bodies
• Environment and Culture
• Feminist Media and Cultural Studies
• Feminist Technoscience Studies
• Social and Cultural Theory
• Cybercultures
• Critical Methods in Media and Cultural Studies
• Methods in Science and Technology Studies
• Mobilities, Society & Change
• The Philosophies of Social Research

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

Visit the Social Research - MA page on the Lancaster University website for more details!