Students will be supported and guided in planning and completing an empirical research project aimed at testing one or more hypotheses in the field of psychology.
The module is to learn and apply practical and technical skills in the context of real research, for example, * relating designs to research questions, * processing and analysing "raw" data according to given research question and design, * interpreting and reporting findings from quantitative or qualitative analyses, and * following academic conventions for reports and data presentations. One of the pre-requisites for PSYC3003, PSYC3005, PSYC3053, PSYC3058 and PSYC3069.
This module explores the concept of employability both from a conceptual and practical perspective. It explores the many definitions and approaches to this issue, why it has gained significance in light of educational and employment changes and what this means for individuals and society. In this module you will: - Be Introduced to a variety of conceptual approaches to employability and how this concept has emerged and why it is important; - Explore a range of salient topics around employability and a range of related research, including how the issue relates to skills, class, equality, gender and people's career transitions and outcomes; - Be encouraged to think strategically and reflectively on your own emerging career development, planning and orientation.
This module provides students with the practical foundations for identifying, reflecting and putting into action the key skills and competencies they have gained through their degree and mapping these to real-world postgraduate opportunities. It does this through practical steps towards improving students’ employability. The module is delivered in the first 6 weeks of Semester 2, and it involves a package of interactive lectures and workshops drawing on key debates in careers and employability labour market in relation to our degree programmes.
Employee relations is an ambiguous term, but one widely used in academia and amongst practitioners. Employee relations as an area of study and practice evolved from industrial relations, and has as its primary focus conflict in the employment relationship, employment and labour law, and unions and collective bargaining. Perhaps for this reason it is sometimes seen as irrelevant in the modern era of globalization. However, management, from line management to chief executives, have often found to their shock that in reality such matters can be crucial. The module explores the terrain of employee relations, building from the UK to wider OECD and international experience. It examines the historical development of the national employee relations contexts within which organizations operate and the continuing diversity of these national contexts in the face of the apparent pressures of globalization. The module also considers the implications of employee relations contexts for management and for organizational performance, and assesses whether managements may actively deploy partnership approaches to secure collective employee voice without conflict. As the module develops, students will apply the concepts, frameworks and approaches it introduces to develop their knowledge of a particular national context assigned to them, collecting and critically interpreting evidence from publicly available sources.
This module introduces students to three key themes of employment law: (1) employment status; (2) the contract of employment and (3) termination of employment. You will acquire a good understanding of the relevant law, you will also develop a critical perspective of the law in its wider social, economic, political and historical context, and you will be trained to successfully apply the law to factual situations. The module will be taught in a lively manner, promoting student engagement with topical employment law issues through the discussion of news, problem-based learning, and teamwork. This module is closely linked to LAWS3137 Equality at Work. It is recommended that if you want to take LAWS3137 in Part 3, in years when it is available, you take LAWS2026 Employment Law first, although this is not indispensable.
Employment Relations is a module studying different facets of the employment relationship from a social, political, economic, legal, and psychological perspective. Having as its starting point the UK labour market and employment relations (ER) system, it examines the main actors in ER, the structures and role of employee voice, conflict at work, pay and working time outcomes, etc.; in other words, it examines concepts and topics related to the structure, process, and outcomes of employment relations. It also examines cross-national, comparative variation in ER systems, aiming to instil to students an appreciation of the economic and institutional context that constrains and enables the behaviour of the main actors of the employment relationship. The module requires students to reflect critically on theory and empirical evidence, thus gaining a deeper understanding of the different facets of, and concepts related to, the employment relationship.
This module will integrate your learning from Foundations of Occupational Therapy (OT) Practice and complement your learning in OT Concepts: Extrinsic factors and OT concepts: Intrinsic factors. This module will facilitate your application of knowledge to occupations across the lifespan. You will explore occupations for those with a range of conditions, applying evidence-based practice and consider risk from different perspectives.
Based on written texts, films and visual materials from and about Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, this course is intended to show you the cutting edge of cultural production and research from the Portuguese-speaking world, while remaining anchored in the essential themes and trends of the global twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. To this end, the course takes one thematic mainstay of the Portuguese-speaking world during the last century — the body — and uses it as a unifying motif and point of departure for study of a diverse, unique and comprehensive range of themes. Alongside the set primary texts for the course, during lectures you will be introduced to a range of critical frameworks through which those texts can be understood, such as queer theory, theories of photography, cultural disability theory, and theories of colonisation and postcolonial identity. This aspect of the course will allow you to forge connections between the Portuguese-speaking world and wider global thought, as well as offering you introductory starting points for potential future study. In addition, applications and evaluations of these frameworks will provide the basis for assessed blog posts, which will allow you to develop your skills in writing for a lay audience, alongside the more typical skills of critical thinking, cultural analysis, and academic writing.
This is an eight week module which begins with basic endocrinology, moving on to how this is relevant in understanding adult reproductive function. Following this, the module moves on to the establishment of new life - pregnancy and birth - then child development and adolescence. The last weeks of the module focus on diseases associated with getting older, including diabetes and cancer. The module therefore reflects a continuum of human development from conception, embryonic and fetal life, through childhood and puberty, to adult life and ageing and death. Each week uses patient-based learning with access to an online interactive or discursive virtual patient. Students will be able to draw on their experience of seeing the birth of a baby in Year 1. There is a week clear of teaching sessions for students to revise, prior to the examination week. Further details will be provided on Blackboard.
This course introduces the ideas of thermal physics, contrasting the complexity of a world composed of huge numbers of sub-microscopic particles with the simplicity of the thermodynamic laws that govern its large-scale behaviour.
This module gives an overview of the policy issues, various planning aids and assessment methods available to quantify energy efficiency and sustainability in buildings. Students will be able to use different tools to investigate building energy performance of existing buildings and new building designs as well as to critically assess the results given by the various rating systems. The focus is to create awareness of appropriate forms of energy performance assessment for a given task in order to improve energy efficiency of the UK building stock.
On completion of the module, you will have developed a broad understanding of energy resources, engineering technologies for energy conversion and have an appreciation of solutions available to meet the world's power demands. You will be able to formulate engineering solutions to specific energy and power problems, utilising either renewable energy systems or traditional power technologies. You will also appreciate the need for a broad mix of energy-generating technologies in a modern economy.
