Advanced Architectural Research Submission (BARC0014)

In architecture, research and practice go hand in hand, with ground-breaking design inspiring great research and vice versa. This three-month programme allows you to develop your own research and/or design to an advanced level, ready to push new boundaries and change normalised modes of working either in academia or industry. You are allocated an individual tutor who works with you to define an appropriate mode of research and submission, which may take the form of a physical or drawn piece, a personal exhibition or a written piece that could be extended into a conference paper or journal article. Many students on this programme work with their tutors to clarify a PhD proposal.

Architecture and engineering have a history where research and practice work in partnership, many great practices have grown as a result of fundamental research and where many research projects arise from ground-breaking design. This is especially true during periods of economic inactivity when recent modes of working are called into question and new modes (sometimes based on rediscovered historical precedent) are established. This module introduces you to architecture as a research discipline. It can be taken part time and offers UK based students an accessible and financially feasible route to a higher degree. This programme will give you, as a design student the opportunity to explore the possibility to go on to become a PhD student.

Core to design effective rehabilitation and assistive paradigms is the broad concept of designing interactions which take a broad inspiration from concepts...

Social Cognitive Rehabilitation (M-level) (SURG0108)

Core to design effective rehabilitation and assistive paradigms is the broad concept of designing interactions which take a broad inspiration from concepts such as effective computing, creative and interaction design, human information processing, conceptual models, task analysis and contextual enquiry, social computing, serious games and robotics. The cognitive process will also be explored, these include: attention and motivation, task engagement, memory and memory problems, retrieval, organisation, concrete versus abstract thinking, cognitive and learning strategies, errorless learning, motor control, instructional routines, learning trails, transfer and self-regulation routines. This module aims to develop a student’s understanding of the challenges, techniques and set of activities aimed at rehabilitation and improvement of functional capability of people and their inclusion in the society. Social and cognitive rehabilitation measures are particularly extensive. However, the main aim of social and cognitive rehabilitation is to reintegrate victims in the work environment. Social rehabilitation can involve the adaptation of homes to the needs of the victims and even the provision of a car or of financial aid to purchase one. Rehabilitation and assistive technologies are therefore designed to assist those in need of developing social skills, facilitate group integration to gain confidence, comfort and support that will be transferable in their communities.