 Our world is increasingly interconnected and technologically and economically advanced. Yet this wealth and technology and interconnectedness, they're not evenly distributed across the globe. In fact, the gap between rich and poor people within and between countries is increasing and we are facing more and more complex socio-economic, environmental and political challenges. We've developed a new master's programme in international development which has three specialisations in development policy and practice, politics and development and economics and development. Throughout your master's here you will study with a range of scholars from different perspectives including development economics, political science and geography and you'll develop a range of practical and theoretical skills with which to address policy problems, practical problems and to work in a range of fields related to development. Studying international development gives you a broad suite of skills necessary to take up career opportunities in the development sector at a variety of levels. From engaging with small subsistence farmers in rural Ghana to designing corporate social responsibility programmes with big mining corporations in Indonesia to shaping responses to climate change and food insecurity and deficits in adult literacy and maternal health with major government and multinational agencies such as the United Nations. Working in international development means addressing challenges and problems at a range of levels from working in villages through working with governments up to global challenges like the sustainable development goals. This means you need a wide range of perspectives with which to engage. The master's is taught across two different faculties the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Science and three schools the School of Social Science, the School of Earth and Environment and the School of Agriculture and Resource Economics. This will give you the range of skills and techniques that you need to address these multiple challenges of international development. The broad interdisciplinary focus of the master's will equip you with knowledge and skills that are valued by employers across all sectors not just within international development. On our master's you will be taught by scholars who have extensive experience not just in the academic world but also engaging with governments, with NGOs and with people in the field.