Master of International Development

RMIT Master of International Development

Make sense of the bigger picture with the RMIT Master of International Development.

This video highlights how the Master of International Development at RMIT provides a unique insight into the dynamics of change around the world, examining issues of gender, environment and sustainability, health, peace and conflict, economics, security and politics with a critical and practical eye.

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Master of International Development

Gain unique insight into the dynamics of change around the world and learn from expert academic staff with diverse international backgrounds.

Associate Professor Roberto Guevera [Program Manager, Master of International Development, RMIT University]: Within the International Development program we do provide skills, in terms of project management, evaluation and learning and facilitation. You come to a postgraduate program with previous life experience, study experience, and so it’s not about shifting to a new career, it’s about actually bringing your current skills, knowledge and life experience into a new context that connects both the local and international.

Visual: Images from the Sustainable Urban Re-development Project as part of the Mexico City Study Tour 2014, including scenes of students working in various locations in Mexico City.

Judy Phuong [Master of International Development Graduate, RMIT University]: I guess my passions in development lie particularly within gender, health and education. Coming from a scientific background, everything is quite logical in science; you do a practical experiment and it works out one way or it doesn’t work out and that’s it, and there’s kind of an answer, whereas in International Development you’ve got to draw upon other case studies, you’ve got to look at other experiences and see if you can match it to whatever you’re trying to achieve.

Josh Hallwright [International Development Graduate, RMIT University]: The people that were teaching the Masters program at RMIT were very connected to the sector. They had a lot of experience in a range of different fields, some of the lecturers had a lot of experience in small NGO work, right up through the event system. Others were much more practical, that had worked on various projects around the world, so that link between what you were being taught and knowing that that comes from experience and critical thinking was a real plus.

Associate Professor Roberto Guevera [Program Manager, Master of International Development, RMIT University]: Staff come into the program and they have their own little development interests; a wide set of development interests that range from gender, environmental sustainability, peace and conflict, youth work, micro-finance and security studies as well.  Staff not only bring all these dimensions into the classroom but rather they bring the experience from actually networking in the world.  Networking is not in addition to learning; networking is the essence in terms of how learning happens within the program. 

Visual: Various images of students in the Timor Leste Study Tour 2011

Judy Phuong [Master of International Development Graduate, RMIT University]: Since I started my course at RMIT I’ve been able to have a lot of different experiences and meet a lot of different people as well as learn from amazing lecturers who are really inspiring and they really do guide us and give us that support that we need. In my previous studies it was always kind of a barrier between the lecturer and the student, wheras at RMIT I felt like the teachers were more willing to help us and guide us and mentor us through this process, and they were really interested in what we wanted to do and help us get where we wanted to be as well.

Visual: Images from the 2015 Australian Volunteers for International Development Program in Bangladesh.

Josh Hallwright [International Development Graduate, RMIT University]: I love what I do because it is, for me, a perfect match between what I’m interested in, what I find fascinating, and who I am as a person. The first job that I got within the UN system had a lot to do with the fact that I’d done the Masters program at RMIT.

Associate Professor Roberto Guevera [Program Manager, Master of International Development, RMIT University]:  The opportunities are just growing in terms of the demands for development work, and the need for students and graduates to have an international global perspective, and this is what people provide in the program.

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