Postgraduate Qualifications

  • MA/MSc Open

    This innovative masters degree allows you to create a personalised course of study across a range of academic disciplines. The programme will enable you to expand your discipline-related knowledge at masters level, gain broader subject-specific knowledge and pursue further professional development in areas that align with your employment needs and professional aspirations.

  • Master of Laws (LLM)

    In this LLM, you’ll explore how law responds to complex modern challenges while examining contemporary legal issues within wider social, political and ethical contexts. You’ll analyse legal sources, investigate key debates and develop advanced research skills. By the end, you’ll have the expertise and confidence to contribute to legal or policy work, progress into specialist roles, or prepare for doctoral study.

  • Exploring legal meaning

    This module explores a range of legal research methods which offer different approaches to and perspectives on legal meaning – the place and meaning of law in the modern world. The methods covered are doctrinal, historical, comparative, socio-legal, critical, feminist and transnational. For each one, a case study is used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of that particular approach or perspective.

  • Advance your independent learning

    This innovative module gives you the opportunity to advance your research skills whilst investigating a specific question or topic that relates to your professional context, previous study or personal interest. Your investigation can be within any subject area and may require you to venture across disciplines, to make connections as well as expand your field of knowledge, all whilst developing advanced skills in critical thinking, reflection and peer review, amongst others.