Master of Science - Digital Politics and Sustainable Development

The MSc Digital Politics & Sustainable Development is an interdisciplinary programme, looking at how these two challenges interact and the unique approaches to tackle them. Drawing on political science, political theory, philosophy, and computer science, you will explore the increasingly urgent phenomena of social activism, fake news, cybercrime, artificial intelligence, and sustainability within a unique and compelling programme.

Key features: 

• Examines contemporary, real-world problems and their solutions, studying trends and debates around the politics of global digital technology, and the social, political, and ethical dimensions of emerging technologies, including AI
• Draws on environmental history; the history of political thought; green political theory; political science; and theories and practices of international relations to understand sustainability as both a domestic and international problem
• Engages with topics linked to human security such as minority rights, terrorism, migration, poverty, disease, organised and cyber-crime as international issues
• Develops awareness and understanding of the different theories of sustainability and development, security, digital transition, and global citizenship in contemporary global politics
• Produces graduates who can carry out complex research, including information gathering, critical questioning and reasoning, synthesis and analysis, with written and oral skills necessary for successful presentation and reporting.