Our MRes programme provide a personalised and focused introduction to postgraduate research allowing you to develop as an independent researcher with the support of an expert in International Relations and Security.   

It provides a rigorous overview of the current state of scholarship in your selected field, guides you, through a programme of directed, individualised reading, to the selection of a feasible research project, and allows you to complete a substantial piece of research.

A politics degree opens career prospects in these areas:

• Parliament, e.g. assistant to member of parliament,
• Government institutions (state or local level), e.g. civil servant or as a diplomat,
• International Organisations (e.g. UN, NATO, EU),
• Non-governmental organisations (e.g. Human Rights Watch),
• Newspaper journalism and other media,
• Corporate sector, e.g. lobbying or consultancy positions, in public relations, or to provide strategic analysis within the companies,
• Publishers,
• Academia or political consultancy (Think Tank).