University of Manchester

This course uses ethnographic case studies to examine how interactions between people, societies, and systems generate health or illness and wellbeing or illbeing in a range of contexts. The course explores the ways in which health and wellbeing articulate with politics and inequality. 

This course critically examines notions of globalization, and in particular economic globalization. This course will allow students to develop an understanding of the global scale of human activity with a particular emphasis on the economic dimension, as well develop an understanding of how the world is shaped by the interaction between economic, political, social, and cultural processes operating at different, but connected, geographical scales, from the global through the national to the local.

This course introduces students to the study of biological timekeeping by examining how neural mechanisms of circadian rhythms, arousal, metabolism and sleep interact to dictate daily and seasonal variations in  behavior and physiology. The course covers a range of topics with a particular focus on the neuronal basis for circadian timing and sleep in mammals, how these are regulated by environmental light, and how the internal clockwork influences the rest of the brain and body in health and disease.