Global Development with Work Placement Year

The Global Development with Work Placement Year program offered at SOAS University of Londonprovides a solid interdisciplinary social science formation in development theory and practice and develops students’ capacities for independent and critical analysis.

On the Global Development with Work Placement Year program offered at SOAS University of London you will explore a dynamic field concerned with processes of change in the South — social and economic, political and cultural — and the major policy challenges they present to efforts to overcome poverty and insecurity.

Employment

A degree from the Department of Development Studies at SOAS will further develop your understanding of the world and how society is organised, with specific focus on violence and conflict, the role of aid, refugees and forced migration. Graduates leave with a range of transferable skills, including critical thinking, analytical skills and cultural awareness.Recent graduates have been hired by:

• Amnesty International

• BBC World Service

• British Embassy Brussels

• Department for International Development

• Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)

• Embassy of Japan

• Government of Pakistan

• Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office

• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

• International Labour Organization (ILO)

• KPMG LLP

• Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Courses include:

• Political Economy of Development

• Civil society, social movements and the development process

• Gender and Development

• War to Peace Transitions

• Global Commodity Chains, Production Networks and Informal Work

• Aid and Development