MA in Gender Studies
Brighton, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
01 Sep 2025*
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 21,500 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* UK
** for full-time international students | £10,500 /year for full-time home, Channel Islands and Isle of Man students
Key Summary
Introduction
Discuss contemporary social issues, focusing on gender, feminist and queer theory, and methodology.
This course is ideal for you if you:
- Seek to develop an existing research interest
- Are in a career in which issues of gender play an important role
- Wish to explore a broad range of issues concerning gender.
In this course, you'll gain a deep understanding of a range of topics, from identity and the social construction of gender to political aspects of gender and feminist research.
You'll benefit from the expertise of the Centre for Gender Studies. We look at many areas of gender research, nationally and internationally. We're intersectional, trans-inclusive, and advocate for sex workers’ rights. You'll also become part of our active student community, and benefit from our strong links with local women’s and LGBT+ groups.
You'll study in a lively intellectual environment, giving you the opportunity to network with other students from around the world. The global perspective you'll gain alongside these networks will be valuable after you graduate.
We understand that deciding where and what to study is a very important decision. We'll make all reasonable efforts to provide you with the courses, services, and facilities described in this prospectus. However, if we need to make material changes, for example, due to government or regulatory requirements or unanticipated staff changes, we'll let you know as soon as possible.
Admissions
Curriculum
Full-Time and Part-Time Study
Choose to study this course full-time or part-time, to fit around your work and personal life.
Core Modules
Core modules are taken by all students in the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.
Autumn Teaching
- Critical Reading in Advanced Gender Theory
- Gender Politics and Social Research
Spring and Summer Teaching
- Dissertation Gender Studies
Options
Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests. This list gives you a flavor of our options, which are kept under review and may change, for example in response to student feedback or the latest research.
While it’s our aim for students to take their preferred combinations of options, this can’t be guaranteed and will be subject to timetabling. Options may be grouped and if so, students will be able to choose a set number of options from the selection available in any particular group.
Spring Teaching
- Activism for Development and Social Justice
- Cinematic Bodies
- Hate Crime and Sexual Violence
- Law, Religion, and Human Rights
- LGBTQI Rights: International and Comparative Perspectives
- Migrants, Ethnicity, and Super-diversity
- Queering Popular Culture
- Sex, Work, and Reproduction
- Techno-Feminism History and Practice
- Women and Human Rights
We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We're planning to run these modules in the academic year 2023/24. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand, or updates to our curriculum. We'll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.
We'll do our best to provide as many optional choices as we can, but timetabling constraints mean it may not be possible to take some module combinations. The structure of a small number of courses means that the order of modules or the streams you choose may determine whether modules are core or optional. This means that your core modules or options may differ from what's shown here.
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Career Opportunities
When you graduate, you’ll have the problem-solving, analysis, and interpretation skills employers look for.
Our graduates are well prepared for a range of careers in sectors such as:
- national and local government
- NGO/charity work
- journalism
- teaching
- Equalities and diversity work within corporations.
Your advanced methodological skills also provide a strong foundation for further academic study or a research career.