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This degree provides an interdisciplinary understanding of the most pressing global development challenges, from reducing inequality to tackling climate change, and how these play out in the Americas.

Students are encouraged to think critically about development and actively consider the factors that enable and hinder efforts to build economically prosperous, socially just, and environmentally sustainable societies.

The programme combines theoretical and practical training to prepare ‘agents of change’ capable of shaping the international development agenda.

Students are exposed to the most influential theories of development from an interdisciplinary perspective that draws insights from political economy, economics, sociology, history, and anthropology. They are also introduced to the practical frameworks and tools currently used by prominent development organisations to design, manage, and evaluate development programmes, projects, and advocacy campaigns. Furthermore, students receive solid complementary instruction in social science methods and principles of policy analysis.

Based in the UK’s largest hub for the study of the Americas, the programme offers unmatched expertise on the economic, political, social, and environmental dimensions of development processes shaping societies in the Americas. As evidenced in the REF2021, staff who deliverÌýthis programme have produced world-leading research that has shaped the development studies literature as well as informed the development policy of governments and NGOs. They have also provided expert advice and policy recommendations to the United Nations, the UK’s FCDO, Ministries throughout the Americas, and other renowned NGOs such as Oxfam.

Graduates of this MSc programme have successfully secured employment in international development organisations (e.g. UNDP, Red Cross), governmental bodies (e.g. FCDO, Banco de Mexico), NGOs operating in various countries (e.g. CAFOD, Stockholm Environment Institute), and media organisations (e.g. The Guardian Brazil). Others have pursued further studies at doctoral level at the most prestigious universities in the UK and the US.

Prospective students are more than welcome to contact the Programme Director, Dr Enrique Castañón Ballivián, for further information.

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