Synopsis:In this field course we will explore the use of statistical methodology in designing, collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and presenting population dynamics experiments and observations.We will cover elements of experimental design, hypothesis testing and statistical inference, analysis of variance, correlation, and up-to-date regression techniques. Throughout the course the application of statistical techniques within a biological context will be emphasized using data that will be collected in the field merged together with larger datasets available from the Natural History Museum, Crete.

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Further on site visits to rare species and rare habitats will be made, linking population dynamics problems with practical issues in conservation biology.Due to the nature of the fieldwork on this module, and in the interests of ensuring student safety at all times, this elective module might not be suitable for students with certain medical conditions. Any student who is interested in applying for this module but who has a medical condition (including mental health conditions) which might affect their ability to work safely in the field should contact the SBCS Student Support Officer, Shaheda Batha, who will consult the Module Organiser and any other relevant parties (e.g.

Existing techniques compute this quantity accurately but the cost is multiple SVDs of order n, which makes the method suitable to middle size problems. We present a novel approach based on a Newton iteration applied to the pseudospectral abscissa, whose implementation is obtained by a repeated computation of the spectral abscissa of a sequence.

Colleagues in DDS) regarding any additional support required to enable your participation in the module. Given the need to arrange travel, accommodation and/or visas for this module, students are encouraged to contact Shaheda at the earliest possible opportunity. If it is not possible to make suitable adjustments and accommodations such that a student can safely meet the learning outcomes defined for this module, it might be necessary and appropriate for them to choose an alternative elective module.

Synopsis:In this module you will look at how to design experiments, how to analyse and present data obtained and how to communicate those results to others. The lecture and workshop component includes the principles of experimental design, statistical analysis including t-test, correlation and regression, ANOVA, ANCOVA and non-parametric tests and discussions of how to intrepret and present data. The tutorial component consists of a series of writing exercises designed to teach how to structure an argument and how to communicate ideas effectively. Synopsis:The first part of the module reviews how cells interact during development and how they use their positional information to differentiate into the diverse cell types. Differentiated cells are replaced in adult tissues of many organisms and we will discuss the diverse mechanism of regeneration. In the accompanying practicals on planarian regeneration, the students will use their knowledge of morphogen gradients and regeneration to design their own experiments and to test existing theories.The secondpart of the module introduces communication between cells and between cells andtheir environment. We will review how cells respond to growth factors, describethe intracellular signaling pathways activated, the endocytic trafficking ofgrowth factor receptors and discuss the interplay between receptor traffickingand signalling.

How cells communicate with each other through cell-celljunctions and with the extracellular matrix through integrins will bediscussed. Finally we will review the various modes of cell migration andinvasion.While it is our current intention to offer this module as an elective next year, we reserve the right not to run the module if it is selected by an insufficient number of students (or in other exceptional circumstances). Synopsis:In this module we look at advanced topics in experimental design, data analysis and science communication. Topics covered include the philosophy of science, publishing, fraud and communication problems, design of large-scale studies advanced data analysis techniques such as programming in R & probability.

We will hold a special workshop on communication in science and may have a second on popular science writing with guest speakers who are expert professionals in the field. The tutorial component continues the theme from second year with further writing exercises, a mock exam essay and popular science writing practice.

Synopsis:W i thout knowledge, there can be no application. This module is designed to bring you ‘face to face’ with the regulators, policies and their science base, as these potential employers (e.g. CEFAS, Defra, the Environment Agency, Natural England) will give lectures on topical issues.

The focus is on human impacts upon ecosystems, including pollution and habitat alteration and how these can be mitigated. National and international legislation and directives are considered (e.g. EU Water Framework Directive). Guest lecturers will also include consultants who will be able to advise on career pathsAs a detailed case study, you will visit the River Communities Group based in Dorset for one week and investigate the link between successful science and policy: for example, contemporary aspects of the EU Water Framework Directive will be considered, including underlying methodology behind bioassessment and biomonitoring (e.g. This will be closely linked to how the Environment Agency are working with Defra Test Catchments (DTCs).Due to the nature of the fieldwork on this module, and in the interests of ensuring student safety at all times, this elective module might not be suitable for students with certain medical conditions.

Any student who is interested in applying for this module but who has a medical condition (including mental health conditions) which might affect their ability to work safely in the field should contact the SBCS Student Support Officer, Shaheda Batha, who will consult the Module Organiser and any other relevant parties (e.g. Colleagues in DDS) regarding any additional support required to enable your participation in the module. Given the need to arrange travel, accommodation and/or visas for this module, students are encouraged to contact Shaheda at the earliest possible opportunity. If it is not possible to make suitable adjustments and accommodations such that a student can safely meet the learning outcomes defined for this module, it might be necessary and appropriate for them to choose an alternative elective module.

Synopsis:The module is designed to provide you with first-hand experience of ecological processes, biodiversity and conservation issues associated with humid tropical environments. Tropical rainforests are the most biologically diverse habitats on Earth and the loss of rainforest is of tremendous conservation concern, both due to loss of diversity as well as its consequences for global warming. You will spend time working in both terrestrial and aquatic systems, and there will be an emphasis on practical training in ecological survey and assessment methods.Due to the nature of the fieldwork on this module, and in the interests of ensuring student safety at all times, this elective module might not be suitable for students with certain medical conditions. Any student who is interested in applying for this module but who has a medical condition (including mental health conditions) which might affect their ability to work safely in the field should contact the SBCS Student Support Officer, Shaheda Batha, who will consult the Module Organiser and any other relevant parties (e.g.

Colleagues in DDS) regarding any additional support required to enable your participation in the module. Given the need to arrange travel, accommodation and/or visas for this module, students are encouraged to contact Shaheda at the earliest possible opportunity. If it is not possible to make suitable adjustments and accommodations such that a student can safely meet the learning outcomes defined for this module, it might be necessary and appropriate for them to choose an alternative elective module. Synopsis:Through a series of lectures, workshops and data analyses classes in the first week, you will learn the theory behind designing and initiating surveys and monitoring campaigns for blue skies science, conservation & for management. In the subsequent week, you will be able to put the theory into practice at a field location such as Lake Windermere and environs, undertaking electric-fishing and hydroacoustic surveys for fish populations, a census for aquatic birds, and camera-trapping for aquatic mammals. Other skills like telemetry will be demonstrated.Due to the nature of the fieldwork on this module, and in the interests of ensuring student safety at all times, this elective module might not be suitable for students with certain medical conditions. Any student who is interested in applying for this module but who has a medical condition (including mental health conditions) which might affect their ability to work safely in the field should contact the SBCS Student Support Officer, Shaheda Batha, who will consult the Module Organiser and any other relevant parties (e.g.

Colleagues in DDS) regarding any additional support required to enable your participation in the module. Given the need to arrange travel, accommodation and/or visas for this module, students are encouraged to contact Shaheda at the earliest possible opportunity. If it is not possible to make suitable adjustments and accommodations such that a student can safely meet the learning outcomes defined for this module, it might be necessary and appropriate for them to choose an alternative elective module. Synopsis:This module covers some of the fundamental skills required by biomedical scientists. The taught component of the module will cover basic scientific numeracy in 4 areas (basic SI units and orders of magnitude, mass concentration and molarities, scales in time, linear and logarithmic equations and graphs) and experimental design and basic statistics.

The tutorial aspect of the module will cover finding, reading, interpreting and citing scientific literature, the use of posters in science communication and teaching critical thinking in biology. This module will introduce you to the development and anatomy of the nervous system. Through an understanding of how the nervous system develops, the foundations of its organisation in the adult are appreciated. We will examine the cellular composition of the nervous system, its basic structural organisation and how functional systems can be mapped within that anatomical framework.

Lectures will be accompanied by practical workshops designed to encourage accurate observation and annotation skills and mastery of functional neuroanatomy. This module will cover some basic laboratory skills including experimental design and hands-on experience of a range of laboratory practical (such as quantification of drugs in biological fluids) techniques enabling them to develop skills of working safely and accurately in the laboratory. This module will also provide a basic knowledge of the appropriate statistical ideas and methods to use in the collection, presentation and analysis of pharmacological data, and the use of statistical software. Students will also learn about informatics (finding the correct information online), bioinformatics (how computers can be used to analyse genomes, genes and gene products), general scientific reading and writing skills (including how to avoid plagiarism), ethics and drug trial design as well as presentation skills in a scientific context. Studentswill be given an introduction to the principles of drugs design.

This willinclude an analysis of the principles of identification of new compounds andbiologics with the potential to be drugs, and their development for therapeuticuse, and quantification of drug efficacy. Students will develop the ability tocritique the different stages of drug discovery, including drug-receptoraffinity and selectivity, pharmacokinetics, safety and clinical trials.Lectures inspecialised areas will be given by experts in their field, providing a sense ofthe frontiers of their subject. In addition to formal lectures, the course willprovide tutorials with opportunities to critically examine research papers inaddition to providing guidance in developing their own ideas in drug discovery. Welcome to BRAIDE!BRAIDE is a collaborative student-teacher partnership project, working alongside the Student Welfare Team and the E-Learning Unit to support students’ learning about diversity issues in healthcare and raise staff awareness on diversity issues in the student body.AIMS.To create a shared interactive e-learning resource for students and teachers to explore, share, learn and discuss diversity issues in healthcare.To create a culture of collaboration and encourage learning with and from students in developing curriculum on diversity education. Thereby, facilitating meaningful engagement and involvement of students in curriculum development, design and evaluation.To work collaboratively with the Student Welfare Team to understand the experiences and challenges of students with protected characteristics. How to use BRAIDEBRAIDE is a multifunctional resource that integrates and supports the teaching of:.Clinical Communication Skills across all five years in the medical curriculum.Clinical Skills across all five years in the medical curriculum.Student Selected Component (SSC) in diversity for year one medical studentsFOR STUDENTS.

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Meet the Team. Clinical Communication. Clinical Skills. Identity.

LGBTQ+. BRAIDE Forum. Wellbeing. Feminism.

DisabilityFOR STAFF. Inclusivity. QMOUT.

MODULE DESCRIPTIONThis module introduces students to the purpose, operations and implications of management by exploring the contexts within which management takes place. To put in a somewhat exaggerated way, it is not a “how to do business” module, but a module about the framework for theorising business as well as the environment and contexts in which it operates. We will reflect on management in relation to the social, economic, technological and legal conditions within which it operates, as well as reflect on the political and environmentalconsequences of modern management.

The module in Operations Management (BUS002) has been designed to provide students with a clear understanding of the most important issues in OM (such as process design, capacity planning and control, supply chain management, just in time and total quality management) through a blend of theoretical approaches and seminar-based activities. Students are also encouraged to analyse the relationship between the production of services and goods and the reproduction of technical and managerial knowledge, and the implications of such a relationship in terms of governance and strategic decisions. Organisations often claim that their most valuable resources are their employees, but one of the most difficult tasks of management is to ensure that employees feel valued. This module examines the main theories, concepts and processes that are considered central to the management of human resources.

The course combines theoretical analysis with examples of practical application to encourage students to think critically about the management of people. The course draws upon a range of literature and illustrative case studies to engage students and provides them with an opportunity to assess their own experiences of work.This module has been designed specifically for 'with business' students who study human resource management in their third year and is not available for students taking NN12. Organisations often claim that their most valuable resources are their employees, but one of the most difficult tasks of management is to ensure that employees feel valued.

This module examines the main theories, concepts and processes that are considered central to the management of human resources. The course combines theoretical analysis with examples of practical application to encourage students to think critically about the management of people. The course draws upon a range of literature and illustrative case studies to engage students and provides them with an opportunity to assess their own experiences of work.This module has been designed specifically for 'with business' students who study human resource management in their third year and is not available for students taking NN12. The module aims to introduce students to concepts and practices related to managing in a globally volatile, complex, dynamic environment within which organisations, national and international institutions and individuals interact.

The elective is designed to be an advanced global strategic management course presenting material that is highly contemporary. This course provides balanced global strategic insights along with proven practical business frameworks and prepares you to respond quickly to today’s challenging global environment.

This module is designed to equip students with the skills and resources for thinking critically about organisational change and development. The module will focus in particular on microlevel topics, informed by research in psychology and organizational behaviour. It aims to provide an understanding of how transformation processes in organizations are shaped by individual differences (e.g. Personality type), interpersonal and group dynamics, and organizational cultures. We will consider the meaning, purposes and interests underlying processes of change and development, along with theories of power, politics and resistance. We will also examine the role of different people in change processes (particularly consultants), and the interpersonal skills required during organizational change and development. The module seeks to provide students with a practical and theoretical introduction to consultancy as a profession.

The module introduces what management consultancy is, including the variety and types of consulting firms and the markets they serve. Alongside this descriptive approach, the module considers a more critical perspective on management consultancy. This includes implications of how consultants present their knowledge and expertise, the claims they make for its efficacy and the role of ethics and power in this. In addition to these critical/descriptive approaches, the second major component of the module is the emphasis on the development of the practical skills critical for consultancy such as change leadership, communication, project management, diagnosis and report writing, negotiation and intergroup facilitation. Additionally, the module adopts a case study and group project approach in its assessment. The case study approach enables students to apply the consultancy cycle of diagnosing management and organisational problems, and designing, implementing and evaluating organisational interventions.

The module will focus on generic concepts in risk management including operational risk, risks of external shock, risks of system failure, risk to customers and clients, and political risk (rather than e.g., credit risk, debt risk, market risk or other forms of financial risk, which will be covered in modules for the MSc in Accounting and Finance). It will examine risk perception and management as challenges, skills and frameworks, and cultivate critical appraisal of risk assumptions and designs, as opposed to teaching particular modelling methods and techniques. The aim module's aim is to enable students to develop critical judgement about risk management, and to avoid using techniques mechanically, which, research has shown, itself gives rise to risks for organisations.

For these reasons, this module uses a predominantly qualitative approach. This module aims to introduce you to the statistical analysis ofexperiments in the social sciences. The module builds on the methods youacquired in the Data Analytics and Programming for Business Analyticsmodules. The methods used to study proper randomized controlled trialsand settings that are similar require you to understand advancedeconometric techniques, such as difference-in differences regressions,matching estimators, regression discontinuity designs and instrumentalvariables techniques.

These methods will be introduced in the context ofexperiments that have been run in business and social contexts withlarge numbers of participants. A rigorous knowledge of the Histories of Cultural Industries and its different methodologies is an important tool for innovation in the creative industries and creative arts organising. This optional module will give students a grounding in the 19th and 20th century developments of the cultural sector and its analysis in 21 stcentury transnational contexts. There is a crucial methodological and historical distinction between culture industry and creative industries and the latter includes any industry which has the potential to create wealth through the monetisation of added value processes and intellectual property and jobs in creative clustering strategies, whereas the former has had a historically different remit. This module should be chosen by students wishing to take a full academic year of Introductory Catalan. Students taking Introductory Catalan for the full year should register for the 30 credit CAT/4200 Introductory Catalan.

This module is designed for students with little or no previous knowledge of the Catalan language. Successful students will complete Level A2-B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Language (CEFRL). The module provides basic competence in all four main language skills (reading, listening, speaking and writing). Teaching materials are selected with a view to introducing students to Catalan culture and society.

Students are expected to actively participate in and contribute to the learning process in the classroom. They must attend five hours of teaching per week and expect to spend a further five hours per week on private study.

This is an optional module to be taught at level 5 for students taking single and joint honours degrees in Hispanic Studies and Hispanic Studies and Catalan. It is designed to introduce students to translation studies from a theoretical and comparative point of view. The nature of the module will not be practice-based, although some short translation activities will be carried out during lectures and seminars to help students understand some of the theoretical aspects.

Lectures will focus on analysing and discussing translations in English, of Catalan and Spanish texts, while thinking about basic notions and concepts within translation studies. There will be also three practice-based seminars regarding Audio Visual translation (AVT) and Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) Tools.

This module is designed to show the intersection of law and economics. The course aims to develop an understanding of how economic concepts can be applied to legal rules. The module will explore the application of main economic principles. The module will start with an analysis of market and firm structure. Then the module will discuss market dynamics. The module will analyse public goods, market failures and their importance.

Behavioural economics will also be analysed and its implications for policy making. Finally, the course will analyse the economics of the financial system and also issues such as adverse selection/moral hazard and agency theory. The learning outcomes of the course is the development of analytical skills to a level where students can evaluate critically law and economics research outputs and design and carry out themselves such research projects.

The course provides an overview of standard models of the economic analysis of law. Synopsis:This module is intended for students studying on chemistry-based degree programmes (including F100, F103, F152, F153 and F154). The module is designed to reinforce and develop basic skills.

The material covered in the module includes: basic mathematical skills, units and orders of magnitude, simple chemical calculations, molecular geometries and structures, introductory calculus (differentiation/integration), computing skills, applications of probability theory in chemistry and the statistical analysis of data. Synopsis:This module is designed to introduce first year students to the fundamental principles underpinning organic chemistry.

A substantial introduction, covering topics such as structure, bonding, stereochemistry, acidity and curved arrow formalism will provide students with the basic tools required to explain and predict the structure and reactivity of organic molecules. Focus is then given to reactivity, using a mechanistic approach to discuss topics such as nucleophilic substitution, elimination reactions, electrophilic addition, aromatic chemistry and carbonyl chemistry.

Synopsis:This module is designed to introduce first year students to the fundamental principles underpinning organic chemistry. A substantial introduction, covering topics such as structure, bonding, stereochemistry, acidity and curved arrow formalism will provide students with the basic tools required to explain and predict the structure and reactivity of organic molecules. Focus is then given to reactivity, using a mechanistic approach to discuss topics such as nucleophilic substitution, elimination reactions, electrophilic addition, aromatic chemistry and carbonyl chemistry. Synopsis:This module is designed to introduce first year students to the properties of the different phases of matter (gases, liquids and solids), viewed from a physical and inorganic chemistry perspective. The module considers the various types of interactions that occur between atoms and molecules, and how these influence the molecular behaviour and the characteristics of the various phases of matter. The review of solid structures includes an introduction to crystallography and diffraction.

The module also aims to introduce the basic principles of chemical analysis, from both a theoretical and practical view, and to cover methods of data analysis. Synopsis:Spectroscopictechniques have revolutionised our understanding of matter at the molecularlevel and are essential tools across all areas of Natural Science.

This module is designed for second-yearstudents on Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry degree programmes where itsmain purpose is to reinforce, integrate and extend existing knowledge ofspectroscopic techniques, particularly relating to multi-dimensional NMRspectroscopy. There will be a strongemphasis on problem-solving in relation to structure determination. Synopsis:This module is concerned with the principles of drug design, drug discovery and the relationship between the molecular structure of drugs and their biological activity. This module will cover various advanced concepts in physical chemistry, including colloidal systems and their application, as well as advanced thermodynamics and nanochemistry. An overview of the concepts involved such as surface tension and surfactants, monolayers such as lipids will be given. We shall investigate the application of colloids and their structures and characterisation. Techniques such as light scattering, small angle X-ray and neutron scattering as well as rheology of these systems will be covered.

Various examples of in pharmaceuticals and natural products design will be discussed. The statistical interpretation of thermodynamics functions will be discussed.

An introduction to nanotechnology and nanobiotechnology will also be part of the module. Synopsis:The module is designed to give you a detailed understanding of stereochemistry, an appreciation of the relevance of this topic to the activity and regulatory requirements of small-molecule pharmaceuticals, and a detailed knowledge of the methods available to generate single enantiomers of pharmaceutical relevance.

Furthermore the course will provide you with an overview of the principles, practicalities and applications of contemporary catalytic methodology of relevance to drug discovery and manufacture within the pharmaceutical industry. The aim is to furnish you with sufficient knowledge that you will be able to appraise and develop synthetic strategies for the synthesis of complex organic molecules using catalytic methodology.