University of Cambridge, Pembroke College

The Economics of Information is a critical field that explores how information affects economic decisions, market outcomes, and organizational structures. In this course, students investigate concepts such as information asymmetry, signaling, screening, moral hazard, and adverse selection in order to understand how information and communication may lead to unfavorable outcomes in interactions between agents. Students explore the impact of these phenomena on markets, contracts, auctions, and policy-making, and show how to design institutions that could help to alleviate issues related to asymmetric information.

The course focuses on the ways in which gender, power, and sexuality shape and are shaped by our lived experiences, social interactions, institutional structures, and cultural norms. Students engage with diverse theoretical frameworks to critically analyze a wide array of relevant topics, including reproduction, sex work, and intimate relationships, among others. Through contemporary case studies, the course explores how gender and sexuality intersect with power, race, class, ethnicity, age and ability, and how it operates within wider institutional, political, and socio-cultural frameworks.

How do states cooperate with each other? How do they engage in conflict? Do these strategies of engagement change over time? These are some of the most important questions in the field of International Relations (IR) and they lie at the center of this course. Researchers and practitioners have asked those questions throughout human history – the increasingly competitive landscape of international security in the last decade makes such questions all the more potent. Starting with the onset of World War I and ending in the near future, this course explores the nature of conflict and cooperation over approximately the past 100 years. It introduces students to the different actors, processes, and technologies that shape these dynamics. This involves themes and topics such as why and when states start wars, how they may be prevented, how powerful states build international orders and for what reasons, whether international institutions are autonomous from states or subservient to them, the consequences of the rise of populism on interstate politics, and the nature of the current conflict between Russia and the West.

The idea of "Britain" has been shifting and contentious throughout the history of the British Isles. A "United Kingdom" only since 1707, Great Britain moved from a minor island nation to an imperial power over the course of the Early Modern Period and contemporary political issues such as Brexit show that its position on the global stage is no more secure or straightforward today. This course looks at art in Britain from the Middle Ages to the present day, exploring how art and artists have responded to and, to some degree, have shaped these social and political developments. Throughout the lectures and seminars, students are invited to question what we can understand to be "British art" and how conceptions of it may have changed.

This course provides a comprehensive insight into all things AI. It is not intended for those who wish to learn the mathematical underpinnings of the computer science or coding aspect of AI. It is for those who wish to explore how AI is affecting our world, from labor markets to politics, from business models to us as humans.

This course looks at the role of education as a signaling device, labor market discrimination, job search models and their applications, decisions within households, and non-cognitive skills as human capital. The course covers both the theoretical model and the empirical evidence to support the model in each part. Students pay particular attention to policy interventions and their effectiveness. While the focus is primarily on the UK, comparisons with other countries will also be introduced.

A research project that assigns students to expert professors in their proposed research topic. The course takes the student's research capabilities to a more professional level. This can be most closely compared to what is called a supervised research project in the USA.

A research project that assigns students to expert professors in their proposed research topic. The course takes students' research capabilities to a more professional level. This can be most closely compared to what is called a supervised research project in the USA.