MRes Business Management and Social Justice

University of East London

This programme brings together specialist research skills with training in research advocacy and using research for social justice aims. The course is designed to build strategies and structures to challenge and survive the structural inequality of the UK and global society, including in universities and research fields. This MRes is targeting individuals representing the ‘Global Majority’, particularly students from groups who are underrepresented in research careers with a first degree wanting to pursue a postgraduate qualification in the Creative Arts, Business Management, Bioscience or Social Sciences to help create social justice in a turbulent world. Global majority includes people whose recent families originated from the global south (Africa, South Asia, and South America) and other non-white backgrounds.This programme will offer a high level and distinctive training experience for excellent researchers wishing to leverage their research talents to create impact and positive social change.You will be taught by a range of staff, all leading researchers in their fields. Guided independent study: when not attending timetabled classes, you will be expected to pursue your learning independently through self-directed study, including through guided reading, construction of research briefings, planning social media and mainstream media campaigns, review reports.The programme is designed to prepare students to undertake high-level research in their area of disciplinary specialism, and to tailor research to relevant research audiences including co-production with research users. Programme graduates will have compiled a portfolio of work that demonstrates their ability to tailor research to organisational needs and communicate research processes and outcomes effectively to a wide range of audiences.