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Contemporary theories of global justice and international human rights law proceed from an essential common basis, i.e., placing persons in the centre of their focus and regarding them as ultimate units of moral and legal concern.

Does this mean that human rights are the best tool for expressing and realizing the demands of global justice and the latter could be adequately translated into the language of human rights?

The module addresses issues surrounding a complex relationship between human rights and global justice from two perspectives: first, it analyses the role of human rights in embodying and promoting principles of global justice; and second, it explores how contemporary theories and discourses of global justice can contribute to justifying, conceptualizing, and implementing human rights.

The module begins with an advanced introduction into some fundamental aspects concerning global justice and human rights and their interrelation, including normative foundations, principles, major actors, institutional framework, as well as strategies, mechanisms, and practices of realisation.

Following that, the module critically assesses the potential and limitations of human rights in dealing with the most pressing problems of global justice, such as colonialism and unfair domination, racism, gender discrimination, poverty and extreme inequality, unjust wars, climate change, digital divide, etc.

The participants of the module will try to find out whether a (radical) reconstruction of international human rights law is necessary to appropriately respond to the global challenges and meet the needs and expectations of the current and future generations.

This hands-on specialist module provides an in-depth understanding of Human Robot Interaction (HRI), focusing on the key modalities through which humans and robots interact, including verbal, non-verbal (such as pose and affect), spatial, and tactile interactions. Students will explore the sensors and actuators enabling these modalities and examine the underlying technologies, such as automatic speech recognition, human pose estimation, emotion recognition, and multimodal algorithms. The module emphasizes critical human factors in HRI, including safety, explainability, trust, shared autonomy and decision-making, and workload management. It introduces design methodologies to create HRI studies using simulations, wizard-of-Oz style tasks and real-world experiments and participatory approaches to create interactive robotics systems widely accepted by users. The module also covers evaluation techniques using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Finally, learners will investigate real-world HRI applications and use cases, including collaborative robots (cobots), social robots, and robots for wellbeing and education, equipping them with practical skills and theoretical knowledge to design and assess advanced HRI systems.

This hands-on specialist module provides an in-depth understanding of Human Robot Interaction (HRI), focusing on the key modalities through which humans and robots interact, including verbal, non-verbal (such as pose and affect), spatial, and tactile interactions. Students will explore the sensors and actuators enabling these modalities and examine the underlying technologies, such as automatic speech recognition, human pose estimation, emotion recognition, and multimodal algorithms. The module emphasizes critical human factors in HRI, including safety, explainability, trust, shared autonomy and decision-making, and workload management. It introduces design methodologies to create HRI studies using simulations, wizard-of-Oz style tasks and real-world experiments and participatory approaches to create interactive robotics systems widely accepted by users. The module also covers evaluation techniques using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Finally, learners will investigate real-world HRI applications and use cases, including collaborative robots (cobots), social robots, and robots for wellbeing and education, equipping them with practical skills and theoretical knowledge to design and assess advanced HRI systems.

This module will provide an overview of human sexuality, sexual behaviour, and sexual diversity.

This module will provide an overview of human sexuality, sexual behaviour, and sexual diversity.

This module will provide an overview of human sexuality, sexual behaviour, and sexual diversity.

This module will provide an overview of human sexuality, sexual behaviour, and sexual diversity.

This module will provide an overview of human sexuality, sexual behaviour, and sexual diversity.

This module will provide an overview of human sexuality, sexual behaviour, and sexual diversity.

Human understanding comes in many forms, though science in particular is often today lauded as its highest form. But what is science, and how does it differ from other forms of human understanding? What distinctive challenges arise for science when—in the social sciences—it turns its focus back upon ourselves? And what will science not tell us? Is there a place for distinctive forms of understanding that art, literature and the humanities can provide? These questions raise many further issues, such as whether our efforts to understand our world are always value-laden, what part identifying general laws might play in those efforts, and what kinds of objectivity any of these efforts might achieve. This module will explore some of these profound issues.