MA Children, Youth and International Development

Course content

• Core modules– International development, children and youth

(impacts of poverty, globalisation, international organisations, NGOs)

– Young lives in the Global South(theories of childhood and youth, education, health, child labour)

– Young people’s rights and participation(debates on children’s rights, Convention on the Rights of the Child)

– Researching children, childhood and youth(research methods training – preparation for dissertation)

• Not:– Child development (psychological development)

Special featuresOptional placement module•Able Child Africa•ActionAid •Anti-slavery International •Basti Ram •Book Aid International •Commonwealth Youth Programme•International Refugee Trust •National Deaf Children’s Society •Oxfam GB – Youth and Schools Team•Project Hope•The Mouth That Roars

Erasmus exchange•Available to full time students •Norwegian Centre for Child Research (NOSEB) in Trondheim, Norway•Term 2 •Modules closely map those at Brunel•Erasmus grants available

Link with ActionAid•Opportunities for placements and dissertation research

Dissertations• Young care leavers in Kenya and their transitions to adulthood• Media representation of Somalia in the UK and its impact on Somali children• Gap year projects abroad: young people’s motivations, experiences and challenges• Impacts of sports participation on the self-image disabled youth in Kenya• The representation of street children in Kenya by the international media and

NGOs• Relationships between donors and recipients in child sponsorship programmes• The impact of participatory action research with young refugees • Children’s experiences of making films to explore and exchange their everyday life

experience• Reasons why girls work as head porters in Accra, Ghana• Experiences of disabled street children in India• Youth and policymaking in Trinidad Youth Council

Student destinations• National / International NGOs

– AbleChildAfrica– Restless Development– Community Development Foundation

• Government ministries– Ministry of Social Development, Trinidad

• International organisations– Commonwealth Secretariat (Youth Affairs)

• Education and youth work– In various organisations and countries worldwide

• PhDs– Studentship at University of Reading

Who we’re looking for

• Flexible– Ideally social science background– Ideally some relevant experience (work in

development, education, youth work etc)– Usually minimum 2.2 equivalent

• But:– THE APPLICATION MATTERS– Personal statement should indicate why they are

interested in the course