Gender, Power and Violence, MA / PGDip

This master’s in Gender, Power and Violence explores current academic, policy and practice debates in the specific field of gendered harms, considering issues from multiple disciplinary lenses to understand how gendered violence and harms differentially affect gendered bodies and lives. The programme will combine theoretical, empirical and applied content to explore how gendered experiences of abuse can be explained, experienced, researched and challenged in local and global contexts. Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is an area of increasing policy and public concern, described by the World Health Organisation as a global public health pandemic. This programme’s content is at the forefront of current issues and debates in the field, such as tech-facilitated gendered harms, engaging men and boys, and debates around online misogyny. Throughout your studies, you will develop an advanced understanding of critical feminist theories of gender, violence and harms, as well as methods for conducting research into gendered harms. The programme will grapple with debates about how we can develop effective, theory-led interventions and improve research capabilities in this field to produce higher-quality evidence about ‘what works’ to reduce and eliminate gendered harms. Alongside this, you will learn about specific forms of gendered violence and harm, the key policy and practice responses to them in local and global contexts, and how to both develop interventions and evaluate what works (and what doesn’t) to address gendered harms in different contexts.

We consider a wide range of qualifications, including the Swansea University English Test, the British Council IELTS test (with a score of at least 6.5 and 6.0 in each component) and TOEFL (with a score of at least 88 and at least Listening: 21, Reading: 22, Speaking: 23, Writing: 21).

International students: £19,150 per year

UK students: £9,450 per year

UK/Home: £9,450 per year

International: £19,150 per year

Sep 2026

Home; 29 July 2026 (International)

• Singleton Park Campus, United Kingdom