This programme engages critically with international development thinking and practice, and more broadly with processes of social, political and economic transformation throughout the global south. This programme is designed to suit the needs of both recent graduates of various disciplines, and professionals with two to five, or more, years experience who want to shift careers, upgrade their academic qualifications, or take a year out to reflect critically on their work. By the end of the programme students will be able to critically evaluate the factors shaping particular development processes and their outcomes; appropriately apply theories and insights from scholarly research to practical issues and problems of development policy and practice; choose and apply the most appropriate research methods to a particular development policy problem or case; analyse policy documents and reports.