Teaching
IMI research staff are involved in teaching research students and postgraduates reading for the MSc in Migration Studies.
You can find out more about the DPhil opportunities on the Oxford Department of International Development website. See a list of current students supervised by IMI staff.
See below for more information on the MSc in Migration Studies.
MSc in Migration Studies
The interdisciplinary MSc in Migration Studies at Oxford University is jointly offered by the School of Anthropology and the Department of International Development. The course draws on the intellectual resources of its two parent departments and the three world-leading migration research centres at Oxford (COMPAS, IMI and RSC). The programme allows students to explore human mobility in a historical and global perspective, and to address the complex relations between global political economy, migratory experiences, and government and social responses.
The degree consists of four components, plus a dissertation:
- international migration in the social sciences;
- key themes in international migration;
- thematic and regional options;
- quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Teaching on the degree combines lectures, small tutorial groups, and discussion seminars. Students have individual dissertation supervision. Teaching is problem-focused and aims to give students critical analytical skills.
The course introduces students to key concepts, research and analysis in the economics, politics, sociology and anthropology of migration. It enables students to understand the nature of both internal and international migration and its role in global social and economic change.
The MSc prepares students to work in an expanding area of international and policy concern. It will also offer students social science training that will facilitate progression to doctoral studies in the University of Oxford and elsewhere.
The MSc is currently convened by Dr Mette Louise Berg
