University College London

This course explores quantitative methods for historians with applications in different historical fields. The first half of the course covers methods of constructing and displaying historical data, providing and interpreting summary statistics, and exploring the relationship between different historical variables. The second half focuses on applications of some of these methods in economic history, financial history, spatial history, and international history. Each case is discussed with reference to quantification and data analysis methodology of a published work drawn from early modern and modern periods. Students are expected to complete tasks in Microsoft Excel.

Various cross-border commercial disputes are frequently resolved by arbitration in London. London is home to a wide range of arbitral institutions, and it boasts a wealth of talented arbitration professionals. This course concerns the contractual and procedural elements of international commercial arbitration both from comparative and practical perspectives, focusing particularly on the English Arbitration Act 1996, the UNCITRAL Model Law, and the New York Convention. Arbitration agreements frequently refer to a specified set of arbitration rules to govern the arbitral procedure.

Addressing urban change and apprehending the complexity of cities demands a distinct interdisciplinary approach across the arts, sciences, social sciences, and humanities, each bringing their own theoretical and methodological perspectives to bear on a phenomenon that has traditionally been studied from within disciplinary silos. This course acknowledges the complexity of cities as distinctive material environments for social life, raising questions of how the different dimensions of the built (and imagined) urban environment permeate everyday experiences of the contemporary city. 

The course gives an introduction to modern developmental biology covering a variety of organisms and discussing the evolutionary, cellular and genetic bases of animal development. The course assumes an intermediate level background in molecular genetics/cell biology but students do not need to have studied developmental biology before.