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behalf of Professor Nigel Gilbert
MSc in
Social Research and Digital Design
University of Surrey, Guildford,
UK
A Masters programme about the design, creation, understanding and
evaluation
of today's digital technologies
The MSc in Social Research
and Digital Design is a new postgraduate
programme taught in one of the
leading (5*) sociology departments in the
United Kingdom. The department has
a long history of vocationally oriented
postgraduate courses in social
research. Among its staff are internationally
renowned academics working on
the production and consumption of
communication technologies, the internet,
and consumer electronics, using
innovative methodological
approaches.
This new programme combines these areas of expertise to
equip students with
both the social scientific resources to investigate and
evaluate digital
technologies and media in society today, and sufficient
technical resources
to understand and contribute to their
design.
Modules include:
The design and use of digital
technologies
Social theory and its application to technology
The sociology
of new technology
Web publishing
Research design and survey
methods
Field methods
and a range of electives, including computational
social science, knowledge
management and e-business
The programme also
includes a dissertation involving a student's own
research and development,
an optional placement in business, and many
practical exercises and
projects.
The programme lasts for twelve months. Applicants should have a
first degree
in the social sciences.
Further details may be found at
http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/srdd/
or by post from the MSc Admissions Secretary, Department of
Sociology,
University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, United Kingdom,
telephone: +44
(0)1483 689453, email: [log in to unmask]
Staff
teaching on the programme include Nigel Fielding, Nicky Green, Nigel
Gilbert,
Christine Hine, Ruth Rettie, Patrick Sturgis, and Nina Wakeford.
If you
have students who might be interested, I hope you will pass on
the
information.
Apologies for any
cross-posting.
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Professor
Nigel Gilbert, ScD, FREng, AcSS, Professor of Sociology,
University of
Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK. +44 (0)1483
689173