INTERNATIONAL TRADE ECONOMICS|GOVERNANCE OF INTERNATIONAL COMMODITY TRADE|INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS

Pre-requisites: Excel skills, general knowledge on resource use, nexus.

This module gives an understanding of the processes that are required to design...

Metrics, Modelling and Visualisation of the Resource Nexus (BENV0075)

Pre-requisites: Excel skills, general knowledge on resource use, nexus.

This module gives an understanding of the processes that are required to design and build a quantitative model for research for resource nexus. The choice of model paradigm is discussed in terms of understanding data and metrics as well as modelling techniques and developing scenarios. The module identifies fundamental analytical techniques and computational methods used to develop insights into system behaviour, and introduces a range of models that are used to examine the resource nexus and their trade-offs (e.g. energy-water, energy-materials) through use of case studies. The module has a series of hands-on workshops in which you will learn how to analyse the trade-offs between resource use (e.g. energy-water, energy-materials, energy-land-food), how to identify indicators and metrics, develop scenarios, visualise them and understand potential impacts of new technologies, policy changes, market changes.

This module aims to give students a broad introductory knowledge of some common, important neurological pathologies and of the role of Neuroimaging in the...

Clinical Module 2: Pathology and Diagnostic Neuroimaging I (ANIM0005)

This module contests biomedical understandings of the body by exploring power and context in health science, policy, and culture. We will explore health (and...

The Politics of Health and Medicine: Race, Gender, Nation (CMII0143)

This module contests biomedical understandings of the body by exploring power and context in health science, policy, and culture. We will explore health (and its absence, or antithesis) as a product of systemic forces, a site of contested meaning and vested interests, entangled with the ‘natural’ world, and implicated in all sorts of political struggles.



After laying some groundwork, the module proceeds through a series of ‘visits’ to contemporary issues in health, medicine, and wellness. Questions for consideration include: Are racial disparities in health adequately addressed by claims that race is socially constructed? How does the production of knowledge about illness in the Global North and the Global South differ? Is ‘biosecurity’ the best approach to emerging infectious diseases like Covid-19? How do borders shape the commodification of the body in global surrogacy and tissue markets? What is at stake in the claim that medical research is constructed and partial? How are climate change and environmental toxicity shifting the racial and sexual politics of health? How could mental health be(come) part of anti-racist, decolonial, or feminist action?



We will historicise and engage with each of these matters using tools from geography, anthropology, critical race theory, postcolonial studies, science studies, and feminist theory.



At the heart of these struggles is the body, which, with its varied links to race, gender, sex, dis/ability, work, the nation-state, and the environment, is a site of intense political debate. This module does not stop at unravelling the human body as social and historical instead of genetic or natural—though that is certainly one of our principal tasks. We also try to understand how racial, gender, and colonial violence may in fact register on the body biologically.