Paper 1

SP401 Understanding Policy Research (0.5) and SP420 Understanding Policy Research (Advanced) (0.5)

Paper 2

One 0.5 unit course from:

MY451L Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY451M Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY452L Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) # (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY452M Applied Regression Analysis (0.5) # (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY455 Multivariate Analysis and Measurement (0.5) #

MY457 Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Studies (0.5) #

and one 0.5 unit course from:

MY421L Qualitative Research Methods (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY421M Qualitative Research Methods (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

MY425 Case Studies and Comparative Methods for Qualitative Research (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)

MY426 Doing Ethnography (0.5) #

MY428 Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis (0.5) #

Paper 3

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Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following:

PP4X6 Welfare Analysis and Measurement (1.0) (suspended 2025/26)

SP400 International Social and Public Policy (0.5)

SP403 Academic & Professional Skills Development for Social Policy (0.0)

SP410 Migration: Current Research, Critical Approaches (0.5)

SP411 Social Policy and Development (0.5)

SP412 Non-Governmental Organisations, Social Policy and Development (0.5) #

SP413 Understanding Social (Dis)advantage (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)

SP414 Ethnicity, Race and Social Policy (0.5)

SP415 Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global Souths (0.5) #

SP417 Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (0.5)

SP418 Global Social Policy and International Organizations (0.5)

SP419 Social Movements, Activism, and Social Policy (0.5)

SP430 Social Security Policies (0.5)

SP432 Education Policy, Reform and Financing (0.5)

SP434 Behavioural Public Policy (0.5)

SP435 Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities (0.5) (withdrawn 2024/25)

SP441 Politics of Social Policy (0.5)

SP471 Issues in Contemporary Policing (0.5) # (withdrawn 2025/26)

SP472 Illegal Drugs and Their Control: The Making of a Modern Myth (0.5) (withdrawn 2022/23)

SP473 Policing, Security and Globalisation (0.5)

SP475 Riots, Disorder and Urban Violence (0.5) #

SP476 Punishment and Penal Policy (0.5)

Paper 4

SP499 Dissertation - International Social & Public Policy (1.0)