SP60292: Policy specialism: international development
[Page last updated: 04 August 2021]
Academic Year: | 2021/2 |
Owning Department/School: | Department of Social & Policy Sciences |
Credits: | 18 [equivalent to 36 CATS credits] |
Notional Study Hours: | 360 |
Level: | Doctoral (FHEQ level 8) |
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Assessment Summary: | CW 100% |
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Requisites: | Before taking this module you must take SP60290 AND take SP60291 |
Aims: | The aim of this unit is to provide students on the Professional Doctorate in Policy Research and Practice with a critical and in-depth knowledge and understanding of policy research and practice in International Development. |
Learning Outcomes: | Learning outcomes for this unit are:
1. An in-depth knowledge and critical understanding of contemporary debates over policy-making and research in International Development; 2. A critical understanding of methodologies used in policy research in International Development and contemporary debates over their strengths and limitation; 3. An in-depth knowledge of the range of actors and agencies involved in policy-making in International Development in a range of international contexts. 4. To understand how comparative analysis can enhance understanding of policy making. |
Skills: | Students who successfully complete this unit should develop the following skills:
1. The ability to critical appraise policy-making processes and outcomes in the context of International Development 2. Enhanced ability to formulate coherent and practical questions for policy research and to design and justify an appropriate research strategy to answer those questions within the field of International Development 3. To use comparative analysis techniques to illuminate policy questions. |
Content: | 1. Policy and policy-making in International Development 2. Actors, agencies, and power in International Development 3. The modalities of policy in international development I: International agencies 4. The modalities of policy in international development II: NGOs and INGOs 5. The modalities of policy in international development III: Government and governance 6. Contemporary debates I: Aid, conditionality, and selectivity 7. Contemporary debates II: Power, participation, and ownership 8. Policy research in international development I: The World Bank 9. Policy research in international development II: Oxfam 10. The nexus of power and research in International Development 11. A comparative understanding of different development trajectories. |
Programme availability: |
SP60292 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Social & Policy Sciences
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