This module aims to give students a sound understanding of situational crime prevention and its location within the crime prevention process from inception to...

This module aims to give students a sound understanding of situational crime prevention and its location within the crime prevention process from inception to completion. This involves frameworks that can be used in planning prevention strategies and issues that are likely to come up when implementing prevention initiatives. Part of the lectures are devoted to case studies of prevention for specific crime types. These cover vehicle crime, antisocial behavior and minor crimes, violence, burglary and theft, racial discrimination. Emerging crime types (such as cybercrime) will also be discussed. Guest speakers will complement the module convenor for part of them. Tutorials are designed to foster student engagement, creative and critical thinking for situational crime prevention frameworks. This module focuses primarily on examples of crime reduction using situational crime prevention techniques.

This module will consist of 20 x 1 hour sessions facilitated by visiting speakers. Speakers will include business psychologists who work as consultants or who...

This module will consist of 20 x 1 hour sessions facilitated by visiting speakers. Speakers will include business psychologists who work as consultants or who are eminent researchers in the field, as well as leading figures from the world of HR, psychological test publishers, etc. The module is designed to give students direct exposure to opinion formers in applied psychology, and speakers will represent different key areas of application of industrial/organisational and business psychology.

This module explores current developments in phonological theory. The module is designed to cover advanced issues in phonological theory, including recent...

This module explores current developments in phonological theory. The module is designed to cover advanced issues in phonological theory, including recent developments. Each year, the course selects a topic of current interest in the phonological literature. The selected topic is explored in depth and critically evaluated with regard to the theoretical issues it poses to phonologists.

Topics covered in recent years have included: vowel harmony, learning biases, prosodic structure and segmental phonology in English, information in phonology and the speech signal, vowel reduction, consonant lenition, segment deletion. This year’s course will focus on the phonological interfaces with morphosyntax and phonetics.