经经济社会研究理事会（ESRC）认可，我们享有盛誉的社会科学研究（通信和媒体）理学硕士学位是为有兴趣在学术界和工业界从事传播和媒体研究事业的学生而设计的。该计划为在国际知名部门发展传播和媒体专业研究方法技能提供了机会，并全面概述了当前影响社会科学的主要方法论和哲学辩论。该学校还是1991年成立的传播与文化研究中心（CRCC）的所在地。此后，该中心已成长为英国同类中心中最大的中心之一。核心主题包括：文化，经济和政策，互动和话语，媒体，记忆和历史，民族，移民和公民身份，政治传播，社会，政治和文化理论。
Accredited by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), our prestigious MSc Social Science Research (Communication and Media) is designed for students interested in pursuing a communication and media research career in academia or in industry.<br><br>The programme provides an opportunity to develop specialised research methods skills in communication and media in an internationally renowned department, as well as a comprehensive overview of the key methodological and philosophical debates that currently shape social sciences.<br><br>The School of Social Sciences and Humanities is a stimulating environment in which to pursue a postgraduate degree. It fosters interdisciplinary research and collaboration and it is internationally renowned for its research into communication and media studies.<br><br>Communication and media research in the School is conducted in its Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (CRCC) which was established in 1991. The centre is one of the largest of its kind in the UK and its core themes include: culture, economy, and policy, language and social interaction, media, memory, and history, nations, migrants, and citizenship, political communication, and social, political, and cultural theory.<br><br>The programme is in full compliance with the Economic and Social Research Council's requirements for an MSc in Social Science Research. On completion of the course, a student will have met the training requirements for PhD funding from the ESRC, opening up the possibility of securing PhD funding from the ESRC.