The module will consider the alternative models for public policy, governance and administration from those focussed on ‘market fixing’ to new ones...

New Economic Thinking and Public Value (IIPP0007)

The module will consider the alternative models for public policy, governance and administration from those focussed on ‘market fixing’ to new ones that can be expressed as ‘market making’. The latter requires all organisations, including those in the public sphere, to be equally ambitious around experimentation and exploration. This requires building new competencies and dynamic capabilities inside public institutions, which are oriented towards producing, nurturing and evaluation ﻿the creation of public value.

“Gothic” is one of the most pervasive concepts in Western culture. First coined during the Renaissance as a pejorative label for the idiomatic...

Gothic: From High Culture to Subculture (HIST0808)

“Gothic” is one of the most pervasive concepts in Western culture. First coined during the Renaissance as a pejorative label for the idiomatic style of Medieval European architecture c. 1140-1450, Gothic became an elastic and occasionally elusive term to characterize a variety of responses to the medieval past from the fifteenth-century to the present. In considering the history of Gothic as an ideal and anti-ideal in art, architecture, literature and film from the Middle Ages to the present, this course will offer a cultural history of medievalism in European, and particularly English, culture.

This module takes a diachronic approach to the socio-religious histories of death and dying in ancient Mesopotamia, primarily during the 3rd and 2nd millennia...

Death and Dying in Ancient Mesopotamia (HIST0806)

This module takes a diachronic approach to the socio-religious histories of death and dying in ancient Mesopotamia, primarily during the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC. Death is as vast a topic as it is fascinating, which necessitates drawing on sister fields such as archaeology and anthropology. Accordingly, the module is designed to place historical inquiry and source evaluation in an interdisciplinary framework. We will explore the cosmological notions, social attitudes, and political implications surrounding the ways in which ancient Mesopotamian societies dealt with the universality of death. In examining attitudes of the living towards the dead, we will be looking at sources that are awe-inspiring, thought-provoking, heart-wrenching, blood-chilling, and sometimes even side-splitting.