This module equips students with learning about the many possible ways of combining the results of studies in a systematic review. Course sessions will...

Approaches to Systematic Review Synthesis (SOCS0095)

This module equips students with learning about the many possible ways of combining the results of studies in a systematic review. Course sessions will address:

Types of synthesis: landscapes/debates and stages/methods
	Framework synthesis and meta-ethnography
	Statistical meta-analysis
	Mixed-methods synthesis
	Interpreting synthesis results

This first year module will provide students with an understanding of international differences across a range of important policy-relevant areas, from family...

Social Change Within Contemporary Society (SOCS0025)

This first year module will provide students with an understanding of international differences across a range of important policy-relevant areas, from family life to employment to political engagement, and the key factors that underpin these differences. It will focus in detail on the UK to explore how it has changed (and remained stable) over time, exploring the factors that underpin this and their consequences, particularly in terms of public policy.

The module will introduce students to different ways of thinking about and assessing evidence, including consideration of practical issues to do with how data is collected, how different phenomena can be measured, and the issues that emerge when comparing data from different sources. The evidence considered in the module will be predominantly but not entirely statistical in nature.

The economics of education applies the principles of economics to the analysis of education and education policy. This course is designed to give an overview...

Economic Perspectives on Education Policy (SOCS0020)

The economics of education applies the principles of economics to the analysis of education and education policy. This course is designed to give an overview of the field of the economics of education to students who are new to the discipline, whether or not they have prior economic training.  

The module first introduces human capital theory and its application to estimating rates of return to education are examined. It then moves onto the demand for education and education supply by providers (both state and private). The main criteria for evaluating policy – efficiency and equity – are applied throughout the module, and to different stages of education.  

Our aims for this module are as follows: 


	to enable students to understand basic economic principles and their application to education (including human capital theory and signalling); 
	

	to provide an economics perspective on education policy for students who have little or no prior knowledge of economics; 
	
	
	to enable students to understand the most important concepts in the economics of education literature, including the education production function; 
	
	
	to provide students with an overview of the most recent empirical evidence on effective policies in education from an economics perspectives; 
	
	
	to explain the role that education plays in promoting social mobility. 