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School of Politics and International Relations Undergraduate Study politics.qmul.ac.uk The Houses of Parliament, only a short tube ride from the Mile End campus Contents Welcome to Queen Mary 4 Our home in the east 8 The School of Politics and International Relations 10 Careers and alumni 16 Degree programmes 20 How to apply 24 Study abroad 26 Accommodation and visit us 28 How to find us 30 Campus maps 32 Any section of this publication is available in large print upon request. If you require this publication in a different accessible format we will endeavour to provide this where possible. For further information and assistance, please contact: [email protected]; +44 (0)20 7882 5585. The information given in this publication is correct at the time of going to press. The College reserves the right to modify or cancel any statement in it and accepts no responsibility for the consequences of any such changes. For the most up-to-date information, please refer to the website qmul.ac.uk This prospectus has been printed on environmentally friendly material from well-managed sources. 2 www.geog.qmul.ac.uk 2 politics.qmul.ac.uk politics.qmul.ac.uk 3 What we offer EXCEPTIONAL FACILITIES • £250m on new facilities in the past 15 years • 7,700 square metres of new learning and WORLD-CLASS UNIVERSITY teaching space with the new Graduate Centre, currently under construction • 1% – we’re in the top percentile of and due to open in 2016. universities in the world (Times Higher and QS World University Ranking) • We are a member of the Russell Group – the UK’s 24 leading universities INNOVATIVE RESEARCH • 5th in the UK (at 83%) for “world-leading or internationally excellent” research outputs (4*/3*) in the most recent Research Excellence Framework • Drama and Linguistics ranked top in the UK for research quality, as well as several areas in the top ten such as English, Dentistry, Public Health and Medicine. • £100m – total research income per year HIGH-QUALITY GREAT LOCATION TEACHING • Short walk from Brick Lane and Shoreditch, and close to London’s financial centres, • 6 Nobel Prize winning alumni the City and Canary Wharf INTERNATIONAL • 55 academy and society fellows • Set beside the Regent’s Canal in Mile End, among QMUL academic staff our main campus is within walking distance OUTLOOK • Personal Adviser support system from the Olympic Park • Students and staff from for every student • Mile End station is one of the best more than 150 countries connected in the city, as it is on the Central, • “One of the world’s 20 most District and Hammersmith and City lines. international universities” (Times Higher Education) 4 politics.qmul.ac.uk politics.qmul.ac.uk 5 The Queens’ Building, Mile End has a proud association with not one, but four Queens: Welcome to Queen Mary Queen Victoria; Queen Mary (wife of King George V); Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother; and our University of London Patron, Queen Elizabeth II. We are one of the world’s leading universities, London facts and figures with first-class academics, inspirational • 4 Unesco world heritage sites teaching and a great track record for graduate • 300 theatres, 500 cinema screens employability. We also have some of the most and 12,000 restaurants satisfied students in the capital, studying and living on our attractive campus in the heart of • 32,000 music performances a year, east London. 621 a week, 17 per cent of them free! • a GDP bigger than the economy In today’s competitive job market a good of Switzerland degree from a top university like Queen Mary University of London is more important than • green space covers 40 per cent ever. Our courses prepare you for professional of Greater London. life by building transferable skills into the (Source: londoncouncils.gov.uk) curriculum – we are consistently in the top ten Our location - East London per cent of universities for graduate starting Whether you choose to live on or near the salaries in the UK. campus or travel in from home, east London is a great place to be. Thinkers and reformers Russell Group university have always gravitated to east London. East We are a member of the Russell Group of London was the birthplace of social and leading UK universities, a testament to our political movements that seemed radical at the excellence in research and teaching. The time but are now mainstream: for example, Group attracts the brightest students from it’s the birthplace of the suffrage movement. If all over the world and almost two-thirds of you live in east London, you’ll be surrounded research funding in the UK. Graduates from by the nation’s history. East London’s skyline Russell Group universities are especially valued acts as a timeline of the last two millennia, by employers. from the Tower of London, the O2, Roman Road, the warehouses and docks that kept The London advantage Britain booming in the nineteenth century to Our location between the City and Docklands Canary Wharf and the Shard, symbols of the means that some of the biggest names in modern British economy. This also means politics and business are nearby, many of that whatever your intellectual interests, which advertise vacancies with us. As a experts, professional contacts and world-class student here, you’ll be in a great position to resources are within easy reach. look for work placements and build contacts. East London continues to change and develop as does Queen Mary. Something amazing is happening in east London. Come and be part of it. 6 politics.qmul.ac.uk politics.qmul.ac.uk 7 Our home in the east We are based in east London, the hub SHOP… Westfield Stratford City – Europe’s and restaurants including: Su Sazzagoni VISIT… the Old Truman Brewery, a converted of London’s creative community, and largest urban shopping centre, with over 300 (Sardinian), The Fish House (posh fish and brewery and home to numerous fashion home to its financial centres, Canary shops, from high-street staples such as Uniqlo chips) and the Empress of India (a gastropub). designers, artists and trendy bars; the to high-end designers such as Armani. There acclaimed Whitechapel Gallery. VISIT… the art galleries on Vyner Street; The Wharf and the City. The area is steeped are also over 70 restaurants (including GBK, V&A Museum of Childhood on Cambridge SHOP… Spitalfields market, with arts and in history, yet always looking to the Busaba Eathai, and Pho), a 17-screen cinema Heath Road; Bethnal Green market, a daily craft stalls, restaurants and high-street shops. future, and is uniquely British in its and a 14-lane bowling alley. street market with fresh fruit and veg, clothes Nearby is Urban Outfitters, a great spot for diverse character. The 2012 Olympics Old Street, Shoreditch and surrounding area and other essentials. sourcing retro fashions. has sealed its status as “the place to EAT… Ginger Pig café on Hoxton Square (great Brick Lane, Spitalfields and Whitechapel Bow Wharf be” in the capital. Here’s our guide to for a leisurely brunch); Big Apple Hot Dogs, a EAT… Brick Lane is London’s ‘Curry EAT... canal-side bars and restaurants mobile cart selling amazing hot dogs; also in the best of the east. Capital’– an entire street lined with Indian the Fat Cat Café Bar and the Thai Room. Hoxton – the Breakfast Club, the perfect spot and Bangladeshi restaurants; Brick Lane Mile End and surrounding area for a slap-up breakfast after a night out; Cây VISIT... Jongleurs Comedy Club, with a bar, Beigel Bake, open 24-hours (great for beigel EAT… the area around Queen Mary has a range Tre, a delicious, reasonably priced Vietnamese restaurant and post-comedy disco on Friday emergencies). of good value cafés, restaurants and pubs. restaurant on Old Street. and Saturday nights. VISIT… Mile End Park, an unusual 90-acre VISIT… Ibid Projects gallery on Hoxton Square; linear park in the heart of the East End with a Hales Gallery off Shoreditch High Street ‘green bridge’, a terraced garden, and ecology, (this area is the epicentre of the East End’s arts and sports parks; the independent Genesis art scene); The Geffrye Museum of English Cinema (go on Wednesday night for a student domestic interiors. discount). SHOP… the Columbia Road Flower Market on Stratford Sunday mornings; KK Outlet art and design VISIT… the Olympic Park has undergone an book shop. amazing £300m transformation and re-opened as the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in the Docklands and Canary Wharf spring of 2014. There are five state-of-the-art EAT… Jamie’s Italian (part of Jamie Oliver’s sporting venues: the Stadium, the Aquatics growing empire); Wagamama for noodles; Centre, the Copper Box (a leisure centre and Canteen for good-value British food in a stylish venue for basketball, volleyball, etc), the Lee setting. Valley VeloPark and the Lee Valley Hockey VISIT… Museum of London Docklands, which Centre and Tennis Centre. There are also explores the story of the docks from Roman cafés, restaurants, cultural venues and lots of settlement through to its recent regeneration. green space – around 4,000 trees are being planted as part of a plan to double the green Bethnal Green and Victoria Park space in the park queenelizabetholympicpark. EAT… E Pellici, on Bethnal Green Road, co.uk an Italian café and local institution which has been around since 1900. Near Victoria Park, Lauriston Road has some great cafés 8 politics.qmul.ac.uk politics.qmul.ac.uk 9 Mohan, outside the Houses of Parliament, only a short tube ride School of Politics and from our Mile End campus.