Trans-Atlantic Graduate Exchange Program

University of Edinburgh

The University Of Edinburgh was founded in 1583 and is now one of Britain 's largest with over 17,000 students. It has a strong tradition of research, housing many prestigious research centres and units alongside its three Colleges comprising twenty-one Schools. The main library and most social science departments are in and around George Square , less than a mile from the city centre.

The University of Edinburgh is committed to the advancement of knowledge and its remarkable achievements in research – in fields such as genetics, education and computer science – are evidence of its success. In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, the University maintained its position as one of the leading institutions in the UK . It also places great emphasis on developing and maintaining close links with the industrial and commercial sectors, and the University is an established force in commercial research and innovation.

The MSc/Diploma in Nationalism Studies is situated within the Graduate School of the School of Social and Political Studies, a context that provides diverse research and teaching resources. In addition to the subject areas of Sociology, Politics, and Social Anthropology, the programme maintains close ties with Economic and Social History in the School of History and Classics. Also enhancing the experience of study are various research networks, centres and units.

University of Edinburgh : The Graduate School of Social and Political Studies
Website Address: http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/

The Graduate School of Social and Political Studies is a friendly, cosmopolitan and intellectually vibrant home to around 350 Masters and PhD students across a range of social science disciplines. It is the postgraduate division of the School of Social and Political Studies, a centre of research and teaching excellence which comprises the former Departments of Social Anthropology, Sociology, Politics, Social Policy, and Social Work, the Science Studies Unit, the Research Centre in Social Sciences, the Institute of Governance, the ESRC Centre for Social and Economic Research on Innovation in Genomics (INNOGEN), and the Centres for African Studies, Canadian Studies, and South Asian Studies.

The Graduate School is administratively responsible for all postgraduates in the School, both students registered for research degrees and students on the School's various taught MSc programme, except the Masters in Social Work (MSW) and the MSc in Social Work and Criminal Justice, which are run from the Social Work subject area. We are based in the Adam Ferguson Building in George Square and provide teaching rooms, a computer microlab, study space and common room facilities for postgraduate students.

In addition, the Graduate School provides a suite of ESRC-recognized research training courses for social science students across the University. With support from the Principal's E-learning Fund we have begun to develop an exciting package of flexible web-based training courses in line with the increased emphasis on ongoing advanced training throughout the course of doctoral studies.

The Graduate School of Social and Political Studies is the postgraduate division of the School of Social and Political Studies which is recognised as a centre of excellence in research and teaching. Its postgraduate programme offers opportunities for students to develop their interests in core academic disciplines as well as to pursue interdisciplinary studies in a large and intellectually stimulating community.

The Graduate School offers a range of research degrees (MSc by Research, MPhil, PhD) as well as a large MSc/Diploma programme (the following degrees are offered: African Studies, Childhood Studies, Economic and Social History, European and Comparative Public Policy, International and European Politics, Nationalism Studies, Policy Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Scotland: Society and Politics, Social Anthropology, Social and Political Theory, Social Research.



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