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LSE Gender has eight master's programmes and welcomes around 150 students each year from different academic backgrounds and from a wide range of countries.
MSc Gender
Explore the ethical and intellectual issues surrounding gender, with the aim of developing your own research interests.
MSc Gender (Research)
This programme provides a solid grounding in the contemporary theories of gender, while teaching quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.
MSc Gender (Rights and Human Rights)
Develop an independent and critical approach to the study of gender and human rights, while exploring a range of theories, strategies, and epistemologies.
MSc Gender (Sexuality)
Explore sexuality theories and transnational issues of sexual activism, while developing your own gender studies pathway and focusing on key research areas.
MSc Gender, Development and Globalisation
Explore the economic and social processes that shape the contemporary global world and their gendered outcomes, while developing gender analysis skills.
MSc Gender, Media and Culture
Explore a range of gender-related questions through the lens of a variety of media forms, while developing highly desirable gender and media analysis skills.
MSc Gender, Peace and Security
Explore how gender figures in relation to regional, national and global peace and security, while drawing on critical gender theory and empirical research.
MSc Gender, Policy and Inequalities
Apply gender theory to social policy, analysis and practice, while studying the complex social justice issues facing societies.
MSc Social Research Methods
Obtain advanced training in social science methods and methodologies. Specialise in your chosen area of social science research.
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