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The University of London Online Taught undergraduate programmes in Economics, Management, Finance and the Social Sciences (EMFSS) enable you to earn a prestigious qualification from wherever you are in the world. With academic direction provided by LSE, these BSc programmes offer a world-class, engaging and interdisciplinary learning experience. You’ll learn to think critically about real-world issues and develop analytical skills which are sought after by employers worldwide.
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Start dates: 4 annual intakes (August, November, February, May)
Length: 3-6 years
Mode: Entirely online
Pairing live, online sessions with independent self-paced study, you’ll get the ideal blend of engagement, quality and flexibility.
Our Digital Campus — accessible via mobile, tablet and desktop devices — fosters meaningful learning and real-time collaboration.
You will benefit from highly personalised academic and pastoral support — from admissions through to graduation — as well as 24/7 technical assistance.
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We offer a wide range of online BSc degrees through the University of London. With academic direction provided by LSE, these programmes offer a world-class, engaging and interdisciplinary learning experience. You’ll learn to think critically about real-world issues and develop analytical skills which are sought after by employers worldwide.
These BSc programmes consist of the equivalent of 12 full courses when taken through the standard entry route. Graduates of any discipline can follow a shorter programme, consisting of the equivalent of 9 full courses, when enrolling via the graduate entry route (available on most programmes from August 2021). Find out more about entry requirements for both routes.
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Data science programmes
BSc Data Science and Business Analytics Learn to analyse data to address real-world problems, and tackle complex challenges in business with an enhanced technical and quantitative skill-set.
Accounting and finance programmes
BSc Accounting and finance Learn how to analyse, report on and evaluate financial information, and prepare for a range of widely recognised professional accounting accreditations.
BSc Finance Understand the structure and functioning of financial markets, intermediaries and institutions, and develop the analytical skills and techniques to make more informed decisions from financial data.
Business and management programmes
BSc Business and Management Cultivate your problem-solving abilities and learn how to approach complex, evolving international business and management issues with a critical, strategic eye.
Economics programmes
BSc Economics Hone your quantitative and logical analysis skills to address social and business challenges, and pursue a career as an economist.
BSc Economics and Management Apply economic principles, frameworks and methodologies to management practice, and build vital analytical, quantitative and communication skills.
BSc Economics and Finance Develop the quantitative skills and institutional knowledge required to make financial decisions, manage risk and understand market behaviour.
BSc Mathematics and Economics Build a robust quantitative knowledge-base and learn to use mathematics and statistics to analyse economic data.
International relations programmes
BSc International relations Critically engage with key theories, concepts and debates in international relations, and explore pressing international challenges, such as climate change and inequality.
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Undertaking doctoral research allows you to develop in-depth knowledge, while making a meaningful contribution to your chosen field.
With guidance from our expert supervisors, you'll carry out extensive independent research culminating in a thesis of up to 100,000 words. Broadly speaking the focus of research degrees has increasingly been on the humanities and cognate social sciences, particularly on the subjects of human rights, globalization and development, politics, and Commonwealth history.
This degree presents the opportunity to gain expertise in your area of interest while also honing a range of transferable skills. On completing this course, you'll be well prepared for specialist career paths both within academia and beyond.
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS) is the only postgraduate academic institution in the UK devoted to the study of the Commonwealth. The Institute has been supervising interdisciplinary doctoral degrees for over half a century.
The focus of research degrees has increasingly been on the humanities and cognate social sciences, particularly on the subjects of human rights, globalization and development, politics and Commonwealth history.
You'll pursue academic interests in the friendly and supportive environment of the Institute, where your research will be enhanced by the outstanding libraries of the University of London, including the Institute’s own prestigious collection. The Institute offers a unique scholarly environment and you'll be able to draw on the wide-ranging expertise of our staff.
The School of Advanced Study
The School of Advanced Study at the University of London brings together eight internationally renowned research institutes to form the UK's national centre for the support of researchers and the promotion of research in the humanities.
Course structure
The degree can be taken full time over three years (or a maximum of four) or part time over five years (or a maximum of six), with entry in either October or January.
You'll initially be registered for our MPhil and then, providing your progress has been satisfactory, be upgraded to our PhD programme.
The primary activity of the PhD programme is the writing of a thesis of up to 100,000 words. There is no formal coursework, but you will be expected to participate in a weekly seminar on Work in Progress and to present a paper every year from your second year onwards. In your first year you are required to attend a weekly class on Techniques of Scholarship. You're also encouraged to participate in the regular seminars held at the Institute during the academic year.
After submission of the thesis, you will attend an oral examination conducted by an internal examiner, from the University of London, and an external examiner, normally from another British university. Graduates are awarded a University of London degree.
Distance Learning
The School of Advanced Study offers students with an appropriate topic and level of local resource the opportunity to undertake a PhD by distance learning. These students are required to attend our London campus at set intervals to complete an intensive research training module, for upgrade, and for the viva but will otherwise study at their own location. This option is available to UK, EU and international students on the same basis as our on-campus PhD programmes (three years full time, six years part time). Fees are the same as for our on-campus PhD programmes. Please note that not all institutes and supervisors offer this option, and that some topics are not appropriate to be studied this way.
If you would like to be considered for our Research Degree programme via Distance Learning, please download and fill out the Research Degrees by Distance Learning form , to attach to your online application.
Subject areas
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies offers doctoral research supervision in the following broad areas:
• Human rights
• Ecocide, environmental destruction and human rights
• Genocide studies
• African politics, governance and development
• Ethnicity: conflict and accommodation in plural societies
• Protection of refugees
• Minority and Indigenous rights protection
• Dynamics of armed conflict and forced displacement
• Twentieth-century British and Commonwealth History
• Globalisation, security and conflict
• The Commonwealth as an international organisation
• British Imperial history, including decolonization
• European colonialism in comparative perspective
• Post-colonial legacies in the Commonwealth and beyond
• Non-governmental public actors, civil society and development
• British and Commonwealth intelligence communities
Before submitting an application you are advised to contact a member of the Institute's academic staff who has interests in your proposed field of study to discuss your proposal. A list of academic staff and their interests can be found here .
Supervisors
Dr Corinne Lennox, Co-Director of the Human Rights Consortium
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Topics :
- Minority rights protection
- Ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities
- Multiculturalism
- Human rights and development and human rights-based approaches to development
- UN human rights mechanisms
- Transnational social mobilisation and norm entrepreneurship
- Indigenous peoples' rights
- Afro-descendants in Latin America
- Dalits and caste-based discrimination
- Roma in Europe
BA (McMaster), MA (Essex), MSc, PhD (LSE)
Research interests include: human rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples; civil society mobilisation; human rights and development; social mobilisation of Afro-descendants in Latin America; Dalits and caste-based discrimination; international relations and human rights; the role of international organisations in the protection of minority and indigenous rights.
Professor Damien Short, Co-Director of the Human Rights Consortium
- Sociological and anthropological approaches to human rights
- Indigenous rights
- Reconciliation initiatives
- Genocide Studies
LLB (University of Wales), MA, PhD (Essex)
Dr Damien Short is Director of the Human Rights Consortium (HRC) and a Reader in Human Rights at the School of Advanced Study. He has spent his entire professional career working in the field of human rights, both as a scholar and human rights advocate.
He has researched and published extensively in the areas of indigenous peoples’ rights, genocide studies, reconciliation projects and environmental human rights. He is currently researching the human rights impacts of extreme energy processes (e.g Tar Sands and Fracking - see our designated HRC website http://extremeenergy.org) . Dr Short is a regular academic contributor to the United Nation’s ‘Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ and an academic consultant for the ‘Ethical Trade Task Force’ of the Soil Association.
He is also Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Human Rights (Taylor and Francis) and Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Human Rights in the Commonwealth (University of London) and convenor of the British Sociological Association’s Sociology of Rights Study Group and an active member of the International Network of Genocide Scholars.
Dr Short has also worked with a variety of NGOs including Amnesty International, War on Want, Survival International, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs; and with a range of campaign groups including Eradicating Ecocide, Biofuelwatch, Climate Justice Collective and the UK Tar Sands Network.
He currently advises local anti-fracking groups in the UK and county councils on the human rights implications of unconventional (extreme) energy extraction processes such as fracking.
The Institute registers students for MPhil/PhD study only when principal supervision is offered by the staff listed below. It is, however, possible to arrange co-supervision with particular experts in the Colleges of the University of London, and, on occasion, with experts from institutions outside the University of London (e.g. the British Library) when such experts are also Teachers of the University of London. In cases where it is more appropriate for MPhil/PhD students to be registered at a College of the University, the Institute is happy to offer informal advice.
Opportunities and facilities
The Human Rights Consortium (HRC) at the School of Advanced Study brings together multidisciplinary expertise across a range of areas within human rights, including environmental justice, ecocide and genocide studies, indigenous rights, international refugee law, and securing rights for LGBTI people worldwide. The HRC acts as a national and international collaborative centre to support, promote and disseminate academic and policy work in human rights and hosts a number of seminars and research-led conferences on different themes in human rights throughout the academic year.
How to apply
Before submitting an application you are advised to contact a member of the academic staff who has interests in your proposed field of study to discuss your proposal. A list of academic staff and their interests can be found here .
Before agreeing to accept you, the School will require you to submit a research proposal, so it is worthwhile having this drafted ahead of a formal application. Guidelines on drafting your research proposal .
Candidates will normally receive an initial response to their application within 28 working days. Those who have been formally interviewed will normally be informed within one week as to whether they are to be offered a place.
Note : in accordance with regulations research students will be registered for the MPhil degree in the first instance. Upgrading to PhD will be considered in the second year for full-time students and in the third or fourth year for part-time students.
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Key information.
The School of Advanced Study is a unique environment in which to study the humanities. The School strives to reflect the latest developments in thinking across the humanities disciplines it supports and to ensure that its programmes reflect this. We are also aware that the needs of our students are constantly changing. With that in mind, the School continually reviews the its programmes and, as part of that process, reserves the right to alter or discontinue them.
We assure you that we carry out these exercises at no detriment to any enrolled students. Students enrolled on any programme that we discontinue will be able to complete that programme within a reasonable timeframe and with all the necessary resources at their disposal. The School will communicate any anticipated changes with students as early as possible.
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