Media Practice for Development and Social Change (Taught)

1st in the world for Development Studies (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025)

8th in the UK for our research outputs in Communications, Cultural and Media Studies in REF 2021 (Times Higher Education)

About the course
This is a unique interdisciplinary course. You’ll critically analyse development, democratisation processes and social change alongside gaining creative and technical media production skills.

You focus on media as tools for global, social and political change. There is a a strong emphasis on the role of civil society and alternative media organisations.

Activist media, citizen journalism, participatory media, specialised broadcast media and social media are successfully used to inform and engage audiences outside established channels of communication for issues such as:

• social inequality

• human rights

• gender issues

• environmental change.

You’ll have 24-hour access to the latest professional-grade equipment and post-production facilities.

About Sussex
Our courses, research, culture and campus aim to stimulate, excite and challenge. From scientific discovery to global policy, from student welfare to career development, Sussex innovates and takes a lead. And today, in every part of society and across the world, you'll find someone from Sussex making an original and valuable contribution.

Location
Study on our beautiful, green campus on the edge of the South Downs National Park and just minutes from the vibrant seaside city of Brighton & Hove. We’re near to Gatwick airport and just over an hour from London.