The year in industry placement usually takes place as a third year optional addition that extends a three year BSc to four years. Information regarding the...

Biochemistry Year in Industry (BIOC0032)

The aims of this module are to provide an understanding of metabolic processes in eukaryotes and prokaryotes. The course will cover areas such as strategies...

Metabolism and Its Regulation (BIOC0010)

The aims of this module are to provide an understanding of metabolic processes in eukaryotes and prokaryotes. The course will cover areas such as strategies for cellular regulation, fed and fasting state metabolism, exercise metabolism, fat metabolism, electron transport and ATP synthesis, photosynthesis, copper/iron/zinc homoestasis in health and disease, prokaryotic metabolism of inorganic compounds (such as iron, sulphur and arsenic) and how they are controlled.

You will be taught through lectures, whole class workshops and laboratory practicals. The practicals are based on an investigation of growth and gene expression of a chemolithoautotrophic, acidophilic obligate aerobe (Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans) and you will write up your experimental data in the form of a scientific paper.

Co-design|Ethics|Global Prosperity|Intellectual History|Interdisciplinary Studies|Interdisciplinary Thinking|Philosophy|Political Theory|Social Anthropology|Social History|Social Policy|Sociology

Social Theory|Critical Theory|Cultural Studies|Continental Philosophy|Prosperity

Module content

This module explores the ways in which different traditions in critical and social theory inform our thinking about contemporary challenges to...

Social Theories of Prosperity (BGLP0015)

Module content

This module explores the ways in which different traditions in critical and social theory inform our thinking about contemporary challenges to global prosperity. It offers an overview of a range of theoretical traditions and examines their value for impact-driven research on social, economic and cultural challenges. Each week’s topic will focus on a unique theoretical framework – with related concepts, methods, and applications – and examine how this framework generates specific understandings and approaches to problems in the world. The module will address topics such as subjectivity, desire, affect and governmentality, and discuss their implication for understanding issues of social and economic inequality, democratic deficit, and climate change, among others.