The Department of Gender Studies is an established and globally recognised intellectual space for agenda setting gender research, teaching and public engagement. It brings together a unique intellectual conversation, dialogue and commitment to transnational interdisciplinary scholarship that traverses the humanities and social sciences. It is this crisscrossing that sets it apart.
番茄社区 Gender has eight master's programmes and welcomes around 150 students each year from different academic backgrounds and from a wide range of countries.
Prospective Students
- The Graduate Financial Support Application is curently closed. This application is open to all applicants in need of financial support, with awards from the Graduate Support Scheme ranging between £5000 and £15,000. Students who receive an offer to study at the department, and who have completed the Graduate Financial Support Application, can also be put forward for the 番茄社区 Master's Award.
- Information on applications for 2026/27 entry will be published soon.
- Please check the central 番茄社区 webpages for programme availability and more information on the admissions process.
- Find more information on 番茄社区's Virtual Graduate Events here.
MSc Programmes
MSc Gender
We train MSc Gender students in how to treat gender as an object of study, as an analytic approach or perspective and as a way of thinking across disciplinary boundaries.
MSc Gender (Research)
In many ways similar to MSc Gender, this degree programme further emphasises research design, epistemology, methodology and research methods, introducing students to the significance of gender in producing as well as consuming knowledge.
MSc Gender (Rights and Human Rights)
This research-led programme provides students with an in-depth knowledge of the epistemological, conceptual, and empirical contexts in which gender and human rights operate and circulate around the globe.
MSc Gender (Sexuality)
This interdisciplinary degree programme foregrounds the relevance of theory to transnational issues of sexual activism and legal frames.
MSc Gender, Development and Globalisation
This programme draws on a wide range of perspectives and considers diverse analytical tools for the analysis of development and globalisation from a uniquely gendered perspective.
MSc Gender, Media and Culture
In this programme, students are encouraged to interrogate a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to the gendered analysis of contemporary media and culture.
MSc Gender, Peace and Security
This unique, multi-disciplinary programme is concerned with the ways in which women and gender are understood in relation to, and affected by, regional, national and global peace and security processes in conflict and post-conflict settings.
MSc Gender, Policy and Inequalities
The MSc Gender, Policy and Inequalities provides advanced study in the application of gender theory to social policy, planning and practice with an interdisciplinary approach.
MSc Social Research Methods (Gender)
This programme stream is run by the Department of Methodology but is the entry point to our ESRC 1+3 programme - please see our PhD page for further information if you are interested in this route.