International Development SOAS University of London

Programme Structure

Courses include:

• encourage and enable students to complete an original thesis in the expected time

• provide training and experience in fieldwork and across a variety of schools of thought and in a variety of statistical techniques

• allow flexibility in training to suit students with different backgrounds and subsequent research needs

• make available and to monitor first class research supervision with the involvement of at least two members of staff through individual Research Student Committees

• encourage knowledge of other relevant disciplines and the adoption of an interdisciplinary approach where appropriate

• equip students with the ability to assess one another's work critically, whether in response to written or spoken presentation

• obtain language skills as appropriate