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Overview

The Master of Development Studies provides students with the theoretical grounding and practical experience to address issues and debates of contemporary relevance to the developing world. The program enables students to strengthen and broaden wide-ranging skills relevant to careers in both academic research and in the development profession. Students who specialise in development studies will develop transferable skills that will substantially enhance their career options, including critical analysis, communication, cross-cultural understanding, research methods in development, project design and management, and team work.

The Master of Development Studies (Gender and Development) stream is especially relevant to those with an interest in pursuing careers in fields related to gender and development. The stream provides students with a firm grounding both in recent theorising about gender and development and in practical concerns surrounding planning for gender in development projects within government and non-government organisations.

• Specialise in areas such as health and development, environmental sustainability, migration, gender and resource management.
• Gain the opportunity to undertake an internship placement with a local or international based development agency.
• Engage with topics including debt and poverty, microfinance, culture and human rights, migration and transnationalism, food and environmental security, civil society organisations, and gender relations.
• Study core and applied skills focused subjects, including project management and design, monitoring and evaluation and field (research) methods for development.