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MANG1050 (2025-26)

Digital Technologies in Business

Digital technologies ranging from the Internet to cloud computing, artificial intelligence, etc. are often not just a key part of organisational operations; they also create opportunities for developing new digital businesses and their applications can have a profound impact on society at large. The focus of the module is to help students understand the evolution, implementation and impact of digital technologies as well as digital business transformation, strategies and models. In addition, the module will discuss emerging digital trends and innovation.

Students will have the opportunity to learn about basic concepts of digital technologies and information systems as well as their role in organisations and society. The module will also examine how digital technology is reshaping product markets and services, business models, organisational structures and relationships between organisations and their customers.
HIST2102 (2025-26)

Discipline and Punish: Prisons and Prisoners in England 1775 - 1898

‘Prisons don’t work’ exclaimed author Will Self to the BBC in 2011 reflecting significant public concerns regarding issues such as cost, reoffending and overcrowding through to the perception of ‘gilded lifestyles’ led by inmates. In this module we will explore the period of English history in which the modern prison system emerged and consider the reasons behind this development. Set against a background of social tensions, rising crime rates and dissatisfaction with the alternative punishments such as execution and transportation we will begin our study in the late eighteenth century when the concept of the prison as a form of punishment (as opposed to purely holding criminals pre- and post-trial) was a new one in England. We will look at the work of contemporaries who identified the need to develop the role of the prison as a site of both discipline and reformation for criminals and how their influence led to the penitentiary emerging through the nineteenth century as the primary mode of punishment. We will question the motivations behind the emergence of the prison: was this driven by humanitarianism and an emphasis on the ability to reform or was the incarceration of criminals a form of social control? The spate of prison building and rebuilding across the nineteenth century saw the establishment of over 90 new establishments and we will be researching the planning and organisation of these structures with case studies such as Millbank and Pentonville (London), Bristol and Reading. From surveys of individual institutions we can uncover the regimes that were in place and how the makeup of prison populations related to social problems. We will explore the tensions that existed between prisoners, prison authorities and the government across the nineteenth century and how these ultimately led to the Prisons Act in 1898 taking all prisons out of private ownership and into central government’s control. You will have the opportunity to research one prison of your choice in detail as the basis for your essay and to consider how it evolved in light of the wider debates and reforms across our period.

Alongside the wider context of prison reforms we will undertake a close examination of the treatment of particular groups of criminals and the experiences of individual criminals. We will look at groups such as women, children and the insane to consider how philanthropic and medical developments influenced attitudes across the nineteenth century and the role played by particular individual reformers including Elizabeth Fry, Mary Carpenter and Joshua Jebb. In particular debates surrounding the establishment of specific institutions to house these ‘minority’ groups (e.g., Holloway, Parkhurst and Broadmoor) will be considered. We will then move to consider the experiences of the prisoners themselves through their surviving memoirs, letters and biographies and by the use of literature (e.g., Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1860)).

The module asks you to reflect critically on debates surrounding the intentions of modern forms of punishment by examining their historical roots. We will demonstrate how current debates surrounding the ‘effectiveness’ or ‘success’ of imprisonment are necessarily coloured by the motives of reformers across the long nineteenth century in England.
LING2004 (2025-26)

Discourse Analysis

This module highlights and analyses the link between language structure and its situation of occurrence.
UOSM2046 (2025-26)

ÃÛÌÒTVing our Universe

The aim of the course is to convey the conceptual ideas of our universe to students with no formal physics training. We will progress from Big Bang to our current understanding of the Universe. This journey starts in our Solar System and ends with discovering the most distant object in the Universe, Quasars. Students will also learn how astronomical sources, such as Black Holes and Supernova are observed and the differences between Dark Energy and Dark Matter. Finally, they will learn how astronomy research has resulted in useful technologies here on Earth. With their new understanding of our Universe and the scientific justifications for what astronomers observe, the students will be equipped to critique astronomy news and explain the physics of our Universe.

The course is designed for students who do not have an A-level in physics or maths.
PSYC8039 (2025-26)

Dissemination and User Engagement

PHYS6009 (2025-26)

Dissertation

The first part of the course is devoted to exploring a given topic via group work, assessed via short, written summary (extended abstract) and oral presentation.
The second part consists of an individual dissertation that is assessed via a written report.
The content and the scope of both group work and individual dissertations are based on physics and astronomy ideas with the focus on independently researching them, report writing in a style of scientific papers, presentation skills as well as effective team working.
SSPC6908 (2025-26)

Dissertation

On this module you will undertake an empirical research study on a topic of your choice relevant to your programme. You will collect and analyse data and report on your findings critically reflecting on and evaluating your methods. This process will enable you to demonstrate skills and knowledge acquired throughout the taught component of your programme. You will work independently, with guidance and support provided by teaching staff and your dissertation supervisor.
ECON6076 (2025-26)

Dissertation

You will undertake a substantive piece of independent academic work, performing economic research on your chosen research topic. You will motivate your research topic, survey and review the relevant academic literature and identify gaps in our knowledge by proposing a research question, identify and apply appropriate methods, present and interprete your results and your conclusions.

This is designed to demonstrate your ability to manage your own learning, to draw together information from a variety of sources, to demonstrate your ability to understand and convey the current state of academic research on an economic topic and to make use of a range of concepts and techniques that are state of the art in economic research.
SSPC3013 (2025-26)

Dissertation

Your dissertation will give you an opportunity to conduct a small-scale, independent empirical research project on a topic which you choose relevant to your particular degree programme. Guided by an academic supervisor, you will use appropriate methodological tools (introduced on your first and second year methods modules) to collect data, undertaking an ethics application where required. You will develop your skills in managing information, analysing data, and critically evaluating the literature relevant to your project. You will produce a clearly written and presented report of your research.
STAT6127 (2025-26)

Dissertation

This module will provide you with guidance and support throughout the writing of your dissertation. From discussing your initial ideas of your dissertation through the process of actually writing the document, this module will provide you with the information and support required from both the teaching staff and your allocated Dissertation Supervisor.
STAT6113 (2025-26)

Dissertation

This module will provide you with guidance and support throughout the writing of your dissertation. From discussing your initial ideas of your dissertation through the process of actually writing the document, this module will provide you with the information and support required from both the teaching staff and your allocated Dissertation Supervisor.
MANG9908 (2025-26)

Dissertation

The dissertation stage of your Postgraduate programme involves an extended, independent investigation of a topic of your own choosing and the preparation of a 10,000 word dissertation describing your work. Essentially, the dissertation is a test of your ability to create and investigate, on your own initiative, a text which demonstrates a Masters level understanding of a particular subject issue.
EDUC6453 (2025-26)

Dissertation

This is your final module and the largest that you will complete during your MSc studies. In this module you will undertake, with guidance from an academic supervisor, a small-scale research project in an area of your interest.
EDUC3027 (2025-26)

Dissertation

This module provides you with a structure and some key milestones in the preparation and development and implementation of a selected research project. Your small-scale project can take different forms and be situated in a range of contexts. For example, a qualitative exploration, a quantitative examination or some form of investigation and analysis of an appropriate topic. You will be allocated a dissertation supervisor who will guide your independent research design, data collection and write up, according to accepted academic standards.
SSPC6009 (2025-26)

Dissertation

On this module you will undertake an empirical research study on a topic of your choice relevant to your programme. You will collect and analyse data and report on your findings critically reflecting on and evaluating your methods . This process will enable you to demonstrate skills and knowledge acquired throughout the taught component of your programme. You will work independently, with guidance and support provided by teaching staff and your dissertation supervisor.
LAWS6165 (2025-26)

Dissertation

The dissertation is an opportunity for you to pursue a piece of independent legal research on an issue of interest to you which may arise from one of the other units studied by you or as a result of your own curiosity concerning a particular legal problem. The dissertation also allows you to consolidate and then showcast the knowledge and skills you have acquired during the taught part of the LLM.

The Dissertation is core to the LLM Maritime Law, LLM International Commercial and Corporate Law, LLM International Law and Human Rights and the LLM Masters in Law, which means that it must be taken and passed.
LING6016 (2025-26)

Dissertation (ALLT/ELT)

The Masters dissertation gives you the opportunity to undertake an extended piece of independent research in Applied Linguistics or English Language Teaching, with guidance from a supervisor.
MANG6545 (2025-26)

Dissertation (Analytics)

The dissertation stage of your Postgraduate programme involves an extended, independent investigation of a topic of your own choosing and the preparation of a dissertation of up to 15,000 words describing your work.
You will have synchronous and asynchronous sessions where you will work through the different parts and components of a dissertation such as literature review, methodology, references, etc., which will help you to write your dissertation.
Essentially, the dissertation is a test of your ability to create and investigate, on your own initiative, a text which demonstrates a Masters level understanding of a particular subject issue.
EDUC6445 (2025-26)

Dissertation (Army)

- to help you understand the research process and its application to educational and social environments.
- to develop your practical and analytical skills in a range of quantitative and qualitative research methods.
- to equip you with the necessary skills to present research in professional and academic contexts.
GERO6047 (2025-26)

Dissertation (DL)

This module supports the requirement for students to carry out independent research on a topic of their choice within the field of Gerontology.
MANG6550 (2025-26)

Dissertation (DSIE)

The dissertation stage of your postgraduate programme involves an extended, independent investigation of a topic of your own choosing and the preparation of a 15,000- word dissertation. You will attend 12 sessions where you will work through the different parts and components of a dissertation such as literature review and research methodology which will help you to write your dissertation. Essentially, the dissertation is a test of your ability to create and investigate, on your own initiative, a text which demonstrates a Masters- level understanding of a particular subject issue.
MANG6563 (2025-26)

Dissertation (DSIS)

The dissertation stage of your Postgraduate programme involves an extended, independent investigation of a topic of your own choosing and the preparation of a 15,000 word dissertation describing your work.
You will be supported through supervision meetings and additional sessions where you will have an opportunity to explore or receive feedback on the different parts and components of a dissertation such as literature review, methodology, references, etc.
MANG6553 (2025-26)

Dissertation (HRM/OB)

The dissertation stage of your Postgraduate programme involves an extended, independent investigation of a topic of your own choosing and the preparation of a 15,000 word dissertation describing your work. Essentially, the dissertation is a test of your ability to create and investigate, on your own initiative, a text which demonstrates a Masters level understanding of a particular subject issue.
MANG6552 (2025-26)

Dissertation (PM and SOSCM)

The dissertation stage of your Postgraduate programme involves an extended, independent investigation of a topic of your own choosing and the preparation of a 15,000-word dissertation describing your work.
You will attend 10 sessions where you will work through the different parts and components of a dissertation such as literature review, methodology, references, etc., which will help you to write your dissertation.
Essentially, the dissertation is a test of your ability to create and investigate, on your own initiative, a text which demonstrates a Master’s level understanding of a particular subject issue.
MANG6564 (2025-26)

Dissertation (Risk Management)

The dissertation stage of your Postgraduate programme involves an extended, independent investigation of a topic of your own choosing and the preparation of a 15,000 word dissertation describing your work.
You will attend 10 sessions where you will work through the different parts and components of a dissertation such as literature review, methodology, references, etc., which will help you to write your dissertation.
Essentially, the dissertation is a test of your ability to create and investigate, on your own initiative, a text which demonstrates a Masters level understanding of a particular subject issue.
MEDI6071 (2025-26)

Dissertation by Research/Professional Project

You have the option of doing a dissertation by research or a professional project.

Dissertation by Research: This will be a hypothesis driven research project that entails small-scale empirical research involving quantitative or qualitative research methods to produce new knowledge. Research involving human participants requires the appropriate University governance.
This could also take the form of a Systematic or other Review: a literature review focused on a research question that tries to identify, appraise, select and synthesize all high quality research evidence relevant to that question

Dissertation by Professional Project: This can take a variety of forms, including:
• Audit: a process that seeks to improve the quality and outcomes of a service through reviewing the delivery of a service against explicit criteria in a systematic fashion. Where indicated, changes are implemented at an individual, team or service level and further monitoring is used to confirm improvements.
• Service Evaluation: evaluates the effectiveness or efficiency of an existing or new service/practice that is evidence based, with the intention of generating information to inform local decision-making. This type of activity is sometimes referred to as a clinical effectiveness study, baseline audit, activity analysis, organisational audit and benchmarking.
• Needs Assessment: a systematic process for determining and addressing needs, or "gaps" between current conditions and desired conditions or "wants". The discrepancy between the current condition and wanted condition must be measured to appropriately identify the need. The need can be a desire to improve current performance or to correct a deficiency.

Differences between research, audit and evaluation:
• Research: Generates new knowledge where there is no or limited research evidence available and which has the potential to be generalisable or transferable.
• Audit: Measures existing practice against evidence-based standards.
• Evaluation: Evaluates the effectiveness or efficiency of an existing or new process that is evidence based, with the intention of generating information to inform local decision making.
MANG6544 (2025-26)

Dissertation for Marketing

The dissertation stage of your Master's programme involves an extended, independent investigation of a topic of your own choosing and the preparation of a 15,000 word dissertation describing your work. Essentially, the dissertation is a test of your ability to create and investigate, on your own initiative, a text which demonstrates a Masters level understanding of a particular subject issue.
MANG6548 (2025-26)

Dissertation in Accounting, Finance and Management

The dissertation stage of your Postgraduate programme involves an extended, independent investigation of a topic of your own choice within accounting, finance and management and the preparation of a 15,000 word dissertation describing your work. Essentially, the dissertation is a test of your ability, on your own initiative, to create a text which demonstrates a Masters level understanding of a particular subject issue.
PAIR3003 (2025-26)

Dissertation in Politics & International Relations

The researching and writing of an 8,000-word dissertation provides you with the opportunity to integrate and hone a variety of skills acquired and extended during your studies, and to significantly deepen your knowledge of a topic of your choice.

In many ways, the dissertation is the culmination of your studies in the Division of Politics & International Relations.

Writing a dissertation will require you to research, compile, analyse, summarise, assess, argue, formulate, structure, and evaluate.

As part of the module, students:
(1) are assigned a dissertation supervisor
(2) attend whole cohort lectures, group meetings with their supervisor, and individual meetings with their supervisor (those on ÃÛÌÒTV Abroad may miss some meetings, but will have access to Blackboard).
(3) submit 2,000 word short assignments that, following revision based on the grade and feedback received, become constitutive parts of the dissertation
(4) submit the 8,000 words dissertation.
PAIR3003 (2025-26)

Dissertation in Politics & International Relations

The researching and writing of an 8,000-word dissertation provides you with the opportunity to integrate and hone a variety of skills acquired and extended during your studies, and to significantly deepen your knowledge of a topic of your choice.

In many ways, the dissertation is the culmination of your studies in the Division of Politics & International Relations.

Writing a dissertation will require you to research, compile, analyse, summarise, assess, argue, formulate, structure, and evaluate.

As part of the module, students:
(1) are assigned a dissertation supervisor
(2) attend whole cohort lectures, group meetings with their supervisor, and individual meetings with their supervisor (those on ÃÛÌÒTV Abroad may miss some meetings, but will have access to Blackboard).
(3) submit 2,000 word short assignments that, following revision based on the grade and feedback received, become constitutive parts of the dissertation
(4) submit the 8,000 words dissertation.
LANG6020 (2025-26)

Dissertation MLANG

The dissertation is an extended piece of work of 10,000 words which results from independent research. The dissertation gives you the opportunity to explore a topic of particular interest to you in greater depth than is possible within the scope of a taught module. Your topic will be agreed with module tutors, and you will be allocated a supervisor.
HERI6001 (2025-26)

Dissertation or Professional Project

Students on this module can take one of two pathways: completing a dissertation or a professional project. The dissertation is a personal research project of up to 20,000 words on a topic approved by their supervisor. It takes place over the summer period and should involve original research and high-quality formal written presentation of material. The 20,000 limit allows enough space for both analysis and discussion, as well as providing the required detailed account of methods used.

The professional project can take various forms (e.g. exhibition design or catalogue, professional report, guidebook etc). It should meet the professional standards of the field in both content and presentation and be on a topic approved by your supervisor. In addition it should be accompanied by a commentary (5000-15,000 words) which highlights the background, theoretical frameworks and key issues that site the work in the broader academic and professional context. The length of the commentary will depend on the nature of the project and should be approved beforehand by your supervisor.

As part of this module you will also write a research design and give an oral presentation ('pitch') as an opportunity to receive feedback from staff and fellow students.
ECON3036 (2025-26)

Dissertation: Literature Review

This module forms the first part of a dissertation in Economics. You will undertake a substantive piece of independent work in composing a literature review on your chosen research topic. You will motivate the research topic, survey and review the relevant academic literature and identify gaps in our knowledge by proposing a research question and appropriate methodology for future research. This is designed to demonstrate your ability to manage your own learning, to draw together information from a variety of sources and to demonstrate your ability to understand and convey the current state of academic research on an economic topic.
ECON3037 (2025-26)

Dissertation: Research Project

This module forms the second part of a dissertation in Economics. You will undertake a substantive piece of independent work in form of composing a piece of economic research on your chosen topic. This is designed to demonstrate your ability to manage your own learning, to draw together information from a variety of sources and to make use of a range of concepts and techniques that are state of the art in economic research.

This dissertation module is designed for students that prefer to work on a single topic, immersing themselves deeply in the methodology and furthering our knowledge using state of the art research methods.

Students cannot take Dissertation: Research Project AND Dissertation: Research Topics, only one of these two modules can be selected.
ECON3038 (2025-26)

Dissertation: Research Topics

This module forms the second part of a dissertation in Economics. You will undertake a substantive piece of independent work in form of composing two reports addressing specific economic questions. This is designed to demonstrate your ability to manage your own learning, to draw together information from a variety of sources and to make use of a range of concepts and techniques that are state of the art in economic research.

This dissertation module is designed for students that prefer to work on a range of set topics, composing concise reports that address specific questions of interest applying state of the art economic concepts and methods to inform decision-makers.

Students cannot take Dissertation: Research Project AND Dissertation: Research Topics, only one of these two modules can be selected.
LING6091 (2025-26)

Diversity, social justice and inclusion in language education

As language education seeks to prepare students to communicate in a world that is ever more interconnected, diverse and unequal, teachers and institutions are urged to explore how social justice-oriented pedagogies can help address forms of inequality, oppression and discrimination that are still reproduced in our learning materials, classroom practices and didactic spaces. In this module we examine the ways in which language educators and researchers around the globe are responding to calls for more inclusive and equitable approaches in education (UN, 2016, UNESCO, 2019), and the challenges resulting from efforts to eliminate barriers to participation and disrespect for diversity from language learning environments. Drawing from research on critical language pedagogies and classroom-based interventions from different global settings, we analyse: 1) the role that the language learning curriculum, materials and teacher agency can play in dealing with diversity as either ‘a problem’ or ‘a collective strength’; 2) what kinds of diversity and inequality dimensions need to be considered in our approaches to (English) Language Teaching and why (e.g. disability, race, rural/urban divides, religion, gender, class, emotionality); and 3) what resources, strategies and critical or social-justice pedagogies may be developed in local educational contexts to dismantle different forms of inequity, as we move towards a more critical, socially just and responsible (English) language education practice.
MEDI6242 (2025-26)

Drug Allergy

Allergic reactions to drugs are common, complex and often misunderstood. Drug allergy is a specialist area of allergy that requires dedicated training and therefore in this module, you will explore all aspects of drug allergy in depth. The module teaches about the immunological basis for drug allergy and will explore the variety of presentations of different patterns of drug allergy across the spectrum of hypersensitivity mechanisms including IgE mediated drug allergy and non-IgE mediated drug allergy. The sessions will include detail on pathogenesis, diagnosis, investigations and management. Key drugs will be covered, including antibiotics, analgesics and anaesthetic agents and we will go into the challenges and impact of drug allergy de-labelling. This module comprehensively covers both paediatric and adult disease and throughout, you will explore topics by interpreting clinical scenarios to reinforce your learning.

Our online module is delivered using a blend of live teaching sessions and pre-recorded sessions. You are expected to attend the live sessions which allows you to engage with our expert teachers and your fellow students and benefit from rich discussions. Our recorded sessions allow you to learn at your convenience within each teaching week. Most of our students continue to work while studying and benefit from this flexibility. Engaging with our blended learning each teaching week allows you to build on and synthesise your learning as you go.

This module is taught once a year and typically involves approximately 10 hours of student engagement per week. The module will take place during the following weeks (exact timetable to be confirmed):

•Teaching & guided learning: 10/02/26-03/03/26
•Self-directed learning: 04/03/26-25/03/26
NATS3006 (2025-26)

Drugs of the future: designing a magic bullet

The Natural Sciences degree programme is based on a backbone of modules that employ context-based learning (also referred to as problem-based or active learning). This approach to learning places significant responsibility on the student to identify sources of information, to retrieve technical information, to assess information critically and to apply relevant information to a specific task or problem. This module provides students with an introduction to drug design from medical, pharmaceutical and structural biology perspectives.
LAWS3053X (2025-26)

Duplicate of Admiralty Law

Admiralty Law is an exciting course dealing with the laws applicable to shipping operations and the liabilities that may arise. Liabilities arising from shipping accidents, covering loss of life, damage to property, pollution as well as special liability regimes for salvage assistance, specific privileges granted to shipowners, including their right to limit liability, and the claimants' right to arrest the ship are all discussed. The discussion includes the application of tort principles to collision accidents, contract law to contracts of towage, salvage, wreck removal as well as the introduction to international conventions providing for strict liability for the shipowner for some types of damage. The course does not cover liabilities arising from charterparties and bills of lading and marine insurance because these are covered in separate modules.
LAWS3054X (2025-26)

Duplicate of Carriage of Goods by Sea

A shipowner will wish to use its ship to make as much profit as it can and will usually do so by chartering the ship either on a time charter or voyage charter basis. This course will consider the basic obligations which you would expect to find in any charterparty such as the shipowner's obligation of seaworthiness, the obligation not to deviate and the charterer's obligation to nominate a safe port, before turning to consider time charterparties and voyage charterparties, and their differences, in greater depth. The standard form contracts in common use will be studied, as will the international conventions, such as the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules, which may be incorporated voluntarily in to those contracts. The principles of general commercial contract law, such as frustration, remedies for breach, remoteness of damage, and assessment of damages have often been developed in the area of carriage of goods by sea. They continue to be developed in this area partly as a result of the market crash in the autumn of 2008.
LAWS3098X (2025-26)

Duplicate of Crime in Law, Literature and Culture

This is an interdisciplinary module studying issues relating to crime, by way of an exploration and critical analysis of intersections between law, literature and culture. Understanding the way that human behaviours are regulated and understood within the criminal justice system demands an interdisciplinary approach to legal studies. There is a complex set of cultural norms that determine what we consider acceptable and unacceptable in the physical relations between individuals, and what we think of as appropriate and inappropriate ways for others to interfere in those relations. These norms are produced and coded in our laws, literature, as well as in culture more broadly. The aim of the module is to give you a thorough understanding of these ideas, setting law within its wider context. You will be encouraged to apply analytical techniques including psychoanalysis, feminism and ideas relating to race and class to a range of concerns about sexual and violent behaviours and their impacts. The module will focus on critical perspectives on violent and sexual transgressions, considering how legal, literary and cultural responses to these intersect.
LAWS3160X (2025-26)

Duplicate of Family Law: State Regulation of Adults' Relationship Formation and Breakdown

Family law touches all of our lives at some point. It covers the legal regulation of family life, including the extent to which family life should be seen as a private matter and to which different types of family are treated differently for example marital, non-marital and same-sex relationships and families. It considers the extent to which English family law is based on the Judaeo-Christian tradition and how easily it accommodates family patterns from different ethnic and faith traditions. This is examined both in relation to domestic law and the recognition of overseas marriages and divorces.
As well as examining the substantive rules governing the aspects of family life that deal with the regulation of adult relationship formation and breakdown, this module also examines the difficulties that the law has in balancing the need for clear and objective rules to govern behaviour with the need to take the variety of individual circumstances into account. This has led to considerable use of judicial discretion and the strengths and weaknesses of this approach are considered during the module.
Ownership and occupation of the family home are explored to draw out the differences between analyses of houses as homes or property. Although there is some overlap with material studied in the property law modules, the focus in this module is quite different – examining the assumptions behind and the social effects of different approaches.
MANG6580 (2025-26)

Duplicate of Hacking for Ministry of Defence

Hacking for MoD (H4MoD) is an interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial module that provides you with the opportunity to learn from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) to better address the nation’s emerging threats and security challenges. The delivery of the module is supported by the Common Mission Project (The Common Mission Project UK), a charity that works in partnership with the UK Government. This is a practical and applied module with students working in teams to engage directly with complex, real world problems proposed by the UK government sponsors (problem owners sourced by the Common Mission Project). H4MoD covers policy, economics, technology, national security, and any area required to address the problem posed by sponsors.

You will be assigned to a team and provided with a range of relevant methodological tools and techniques to solve a problem assigned to you. As you progress through the module, you along with your team will be required to identify and validate customer needs. You will be required to continually build iterative prototypes to demonstrate that you have understood the problem and provide appropriate solutions. Teams take a hands-on approach, requiring close engagement with actual military, the Ministry of Defence and other government agency end-users, using their real-world challenges.

The goal is to give you a framework to test solution hypotheses using a start-up model with all the real-world pressures and demands in an early-stage start-up, recognising that you are working within the constraints of a classroom and a limited amount of time. This module is designed to give the experience of working as a team and turn an idea into a solution for real-world problems faced by the Ministry of Defence and Intelligence Community.

This module aims to simulate start-ups and entrepreneurship in the real world, which includes the need to take conceptually-sound decisions amidst uncertainty, challenging deadlines, and often conflicting input.
The module is based on the Hacking for DefenceTM (H4D) programme initially developed at Stanford University (http://hacking4defense.stanford.edu) and is an education initiative sponsored by the U.S. Defence Accelerator, and National Security Innovation Network (NSIN). In the UK, Hacking for Ministry of Defence (H4MoD) is funded by the Ministry of Defence.

Note for students considering taking this module:

This module requires a significant time commitment which includes working with a government sponsor for your assigned problem and gathering primary data on it. In addition to classroom time and engaging in group discussions, the module’s demands include engagement with the lecture and other resources, course reading and an average of 10 interviews per week per student team. You are required to be available for a session of interview training as well as any team meetings.

The aims and learning objectives of this module are focussed on developing a set of skills that you will be able to apply in a variety of professions. The problems assigned to students are curated by the Hacking for MoD module team to ensure that they provide you with the scope needed for the module, and that they match the student skills.

The number of students on this module is limited. Once you sign up for the module, you are making a commitment to all stakeholders (including the government agencies that are sponsoring the problems for the module as well as your fellow team members) involved in making this module a success. Dropping out is unfair to your fellow students who did not get into the module and also appears unprofessional to the government sponsors involved.
LAWS3170X (2025-26)

Duplicate of Insurance Contract Law

Insurance underpins much of economic activity, also has a significant social function. In this module, we will consider both the conceptual idea of channelling and allocating risks by insurance and technical commercial law issues within insurance contract law. The module therefore builds on general contract law concepts and principles, and provides a range of interesting cases of the involvement of insurance in our daily and social life, such as the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA)’s coronavirus-related business interruption insurance test case.

Insurance law has ancient roots- many of the principles pre-date those in general contract law- but it has survived largely unchanged for centuries. This is likely to change considerably in the near future as the Law Commission continues its extensive project to reform insurance contract law and as insurance law has to adapt to modern circumstances. We will look into the traditional rules of insurance and update our knowledge and vision on insurance law with the Law Commission project of Insurance Contract Law.
LAWS3169X (2025-26)

Duplicate of Intellectual Property Law

This module will allow you to explore some key areas of intellectual property law, such as trademarks, copyright and patents. Emphasis is placed on the process of European Union (EU) harmonisation of intellectual property rights, and its implications for UK law, also in relation to Brexit.

Some of the questions addressed in this course include: What is an ‘invention’ and is it industrially application? Who can be considered an author? What does ‘originality’ mean in a copyright context? Do you need permission from the copyright holder to provide links to his/her content over the internet? Can you resell your videogames, ebooks and iTunes music tracks? What form of IP protection is available to those businesses that use signs and symbols in the course of trade? What is a trade mark, and what are its functions? What is character and personality merchandising, and how can you have someone endorse your products?

This module allows and encourages you to undertake a critical analysis of the state of the law in the field of trademarks, copyright and patents, as well as international influences and the impact of harmonisation at the EU level.

Whilst seminar materials are provided, significant emphasis is placed on self-learning, enabling the seminars to concentrate on specific topics and issues.
LAWS3056X (2025-26)

Duplicate of International Commercial Sales

This module covers international commercial sale contracts, principally CIF and FOB (which account for the vast majority of the world's tonnage internationally shipped), but also other international sales, in particular international commodity sales, and sales envisaging multimodal transport operations.
LAWS3168X (2025-26)

Duplicate of International Human Rights Law

Following the atrocities of World War II, states internationally agreed to safeguard the inherent dignity of every human being by protecting inalienable rights to which all members of the human family were equally entitled. Those rights, recognised as ‘human rights’, are still relevant today as they remain heavily violated worldwide and require protection.

Various mechanisms have been established at the international and regional levels to monitor human rights’ implementation. Furthermore, various actors have come into play. Human rights law is not limited to interactions between states and international organisations anymore; it also involves the civil society and must face challenges raised by non-state actors. These interactions, embedded in issues of poverty, terrorism and democracy, have created a rich and fascinating corpus of law: this is what the module International Human Rights Law will explore.

This module is designed for you to understand the pillars of human rights law; to identify its key institutions and instruments; and to acquire a transferrable set of research skills. The precise content of the module will be influenced by staff’s on-going research in relevant areas and by topical developments in this field.
LAWS3074X (2025-26)

Duplicate of Penal Policy

England and Wales now imprisons a greater proportion of its population than any other country in Western Europe, the population in custody having doubled in 12 years. Yet the prison population continues to grow.

The criminal justice system more generally, including probation and policing, have been subject to dramatic change over recent decades that have raised fundamental questions including the appropriate role of the state and the private sector in criminal justice, the role of public opinion as a driver of criminal justice policy and the underlying policy factors that have led to the present situation.

The importance of this policy area is illustrated by the high-profile 'crises' and 'scandals' that regularly erupt in the media, including issues relating to prisoner votes, the release of indeterminately-sentenced prisoners, and the failings of private companies to deliver criminal justice services.

This module seeks to cast a spotlight on this troublesome area of law and public policy. It draws upon literature from law, criminology, history, political science and some comparative material to ask where our contemporary penal policy comes from and to speculate on possible futures.
LAWS3071X (2025-26)

Duplicate of Renting Homes: Law and Policy

If you are interested in understanding the law that regulates the relationship between those who rent their homes and their landlord, then this half option is the course for you. The underlying theme is to consider the tension that exists in the landlord-tenant relationship where someone's home is at stake. The course covers both those who rent from a private landlord and those who rent from a local authority (i.e. council housing), as well as those who have no home. We will look at the various statutory schemes that regulate these types of tenancy, including such issues as how people can lose their homes by being evicted by their landlord. We will also examine the implications of human rights provisions for housing law and consider how the law deals with people who are homeless. In addition to examining what the law is, we also consider the policy that underpins it and look at how it has changed during the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century, in response to particular housing problems.
SOES1002 (2025-26)

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