This module covers a substantial empirical project that entails the investigation of a psychologically related research question within either a pure research...

This module covers a substantial empirical project that entails the investigation of a psychologically related research question within either a pure research (Research Route) or applied research (Applied Route) perspective. On the Applied Route this could be an assay of assessment procedures or a service evaluation.

Data collected by the student may be combined with or compared to other new or existing data for analysis.

Projects must observe the Code of Ethics and Conduct of the British Psychological Society and the student must provide evidence that any data analysed was collected with appropriate UCL ethical approval.

This is an empirical, usually experimental, piece of research on a psychological topic. Projects are completed under the supervision of a member of staff....

This is an empirical, usually experimental, piece of research on a psychological topic. Projects are completed under the supervision of a member of staff. There are two pieces of work which students need to complete for the Project. The first piece, the Research Proposal (word limit 1000 words), is a concise structured abstract of the proposed work worth 10% of the module mark. The second piece of work is the Project itself (word limit 7000 words), which should approximate to a paper that one would see in a journal. The Project Report is worth 90% of the total mark for the module.

Comparative Politics|Economic Policy|Political Economy|Public Policy|Public Policy and Administration|Quantitative Analysis|Social Policy

welfare state|social policy|comparative political economy|inequality

The goal of this module is to familiarise students with theoretical perspectives that explain the emergence and change of modern welfare states. To this end,...

The goal of this module is to familiarise students with theoretical perspectives that explain the emergence and change of modern welfare states. To this end, the module typically outlines the development of European welfare states, and discusses the emergence of different types of welfare states. The module usually covers core theoretical approaches to understand welfare state politics, which may include economic models of inequality and redistribution, party politics and public opinion, the influence of political institutions, and the role of immigration, race, and gender. The class may also include case studies of specific policy fields or social policy reforms, such as the Universal Credit reforms in the United Kingdom.
By the end of the module, students will have learned a set of theoretical tools that help them understand past, present, and future debates about social policy and the welfare state, and evaluate social policies in a comparative perspective.