PgDip Political Communications

The Postgraduate Diploma in Political Communications combines theory with practical, applied elements, and draws on a range of research and contemporary examples. It offers teaching that is critical, innovative and diverse.

• You will cover political communication, from the national and international to the local and personal - from governments and parties, to NGOs and local activist groups.
• The programme engages with cultural, alternative and digital, interactive communication as well as traditional mass media.
• The Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies has been ranked second in the UK for 'world-leading or internationally excellent' research (Research Excellence Framework, 2021) and 16th in the world (third in the UK) in the 2024 QS World Rankings for communication and media studies.

Learn to ask the difficult questions

• This dynamic programme, first and foremost, offers critical engagement. It asks difficult questions about politics, economic policy, society and the media.
• Taking this programme will not just give you an understanding of the forms and impacts of political communications, it will also help you contextualise that knowledge in relation to the structures, institutions and actors that are at the heart of politics and media.

Experience varied teaching

• While broadly conceptual in focus, this programme also offers several practical applied options and skills-based components.
• Some optional modules, such as Campaign Skills, are entirely practice-based and taught by professionals in the field. You can also take advantage of the speaker series running each year with guests from the worlds of politics, journalism, business and campaigning coming to talk.