This interdisciplinary masters draws on the work of the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU) and the Crime and Wellbeing Big Data Centre at Manchester Met to offer a challenging course in a research driven environment. The programme asks you to consider the challenge that urbanism brings to our analysis for, and our analysis of, urban policy. The programme will focus on different theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding urban governance, policy and data analysis for policy. It will provide you with analytical skills to undertake research in urban studies. Cities are core to human political, social, and economic life (Storber, 2013) and there is significant and growing academic debate and empirical research around the role and effect of city living. There are also significant questions raised in real world governance, public policy, and analysis for policy around cities, both in the developed world (for instance, policy debate around the devolution agenda in the UK, specifically in terms of Greater Manchester) and in the Global South. Core to these debates is the question of the universality or particularity of the urban experience, that is, the extent to which urbanisation is a universal process, with common driving forces, or is particular to each individual city case. This is a key question in urban studies, and has significant implications for our analysis of, and analysis for, urban policy.<br><br>###COVID Alert Message from University – 9th November 2020 is the latest possible arrival date. Deadline for attending sessions on campus if required to quarantine is 23rd November 2020 for 14 day quarantine and 16th October for 7 day quarantine. A Student staying in University accommodation will only be charged from arrival date and will not be charged for the quarantine period if required to quarantine on arrival. All late arriving students required to start online from 14th September.