Gender and Global Health explores and explains theoretical, empirical and applied approaches to and perspectives on gender and global health. It adopts a...

This module uses contemporary London as a laboratory to introduce and explore a series of interconnected and interdisciplinary critical themes within urban...

This module uses contemporary London as a laboratory to introduce and explore a series of interconnected and interdisciplinary critical themes within urban studies. Reflecting on and developing ideas and perspectives from Ruth Glass’s London: Aspects of Change (1964) and Patrick Keiller’s film London (1994), it seeks to identify and investigate some of the main transformations London has undergone over the last sixty years. The focus ranges from socio-spatial dynamics of London’s economy and housing markets and notions of the multiethnic or multicultural city, to developments in London’s architectural, literary and musical life. Throughout, the course emphasises the specific spaces, places and histories of London’s metropolitan and suburban life, and the social, cultural and political landscapes that have shaped and fashioned the city.

The course aims:

- To provide an understanding and exploration of key perspectives and topics within urban studies such as regeneration, the global city, urban governance, and suburbanisation.
- To investigate recent processes of urban change by connecting broad themes and conceptual approaches to concrete events, experiences and representations.
- To develop critical insights into the dynamics of housing, transport and employment in contemporary London.

This course focuses on philosophical questions related to themes of law, freedom, and morality. Questions we will examine include: What does it mean to be a...

This course focuses on philosophical questions related to themes of law, freedom, and morality. Questions we will examine include: What does it mean to be a human being and a citizen? Does subjection to law threaten our freedom or our humanity? Must we accept the rule of law, or are there alternative forms of political leadership?

Readings will vary year to year but normally include Rousseau, Mill, Hume, Weber, and contemporary authors.