United Kingdom - England

This course provides clear understanding of the different types of environmental exposures that are related with pathogenic mechanisms of human diseases. The first section reviews the natural environment (land, water, air, energy) and its impact on health indicators as well as nutritional content of food and nutraceuticals. The second section focuses on the built environment (housing, urban vs. rural landscapes, transport, work) and the relation of our living conditions with health outcomes. The third section reviews the effects of the psychosocial environment (mental health, stress, socialization, financial status) on the public health. The fourth section expands on the microenvironment features (microbiome) and the epigenetic effects (gene-by-environment interactions) that modulate disease mechanisms. The final section of the course focuses on the combined and synergistic impact of all different types of the environment on health indicators. It also showcases the added value of multidisciplinary approaches to evaluate the combined impact of environment on health and disease.

This course teaches students to use MATLAB for data processing, visualization, simulation, and analysis; apply probability models, estimate their parameters and test their fit to data; apply reliability theory to devices and networks; and perform predictive modelling tasks using regression and time series analysis.

The course provides students with an understanding of organizational change as a multifaceted phenomenon and equips them with skills to adopt a reflective, multi-dimensional approach when managing change in their future careers. In their everyday jobs, managers need to identify when change is needed, manage its implementation or guide others through it. In this course students learn about theories, strategies, skills, and techniques for leading successful change.

This course examines key trends and changes in contemporary television drama. This includes the exploration of different genres and narrative forms, along with the impact of new styles and technologies in changing industrial contexts, to include both broadcast and streamed services. The course also explores broader theoretical ways of understanding contemporary television, such as its relation to modernity and the nation state, globalization, and the place of television in contemporary culture. Although much of the emphasis is on English language television, students are invited to explore comparative examples from other countries and cultures in the context of developing a specific area of focus for a case study.

In this course, students look at the interaction between linguistics and the law and more specifically they focus on the face-threatening strategies of deception, manipulation, and aggression. This is a practical course in which students study the ways that linguistics can be applied in non-academic contexts. Students start by examining the role of the linguist as an expert witness in the legal system and in this section they focus on the use of stylistics in investigating disputed authorship, for instance in missing person cases. Students also examine and evaluate research into linguistic markers of deception.

This course addresses various topics in management research which encourage creative and logical thinking, structuring of clear arguments, and critical assessment of evidence. The intellectual backbone of the course is applied and empirical economics, including behavioral economics and finance, but wherever appropriate, the course discusses contributions from the psychology, sociology, and management literature. Students mainly deal with issues which are amenable to rigorous empirical investigation. Examples of questions considered are whether pain killers are more effective when they are expensive, whether successful entrepreneurs tend to have been juvenile delinquents, and gender differences in negotiation.

The course introduces and develops an economic framework for business analysis and corporate valuation. The main focus is on integrating key concepts of economics, accounting, and finance in order to effectively evaluate the information content of financial reports; develop up-to-date applied knowledge of fundamental valuation techniques; and successfully implement investment strategies.