This module introduces several tools of microeconomic analysis and their application to humanitarian contexts. Key tools from microeconomics are important in...

Microeconomics for Humanitarian Contexts (IRDR0030)

This module introduces several tools of microeconomic analysis and their application to humanitarian contexts. Key tools from microeconomics are important in humanitarian studies to understand issues of decision and choice, the production and exchange of goods, the pricing and use of inputs, the interdependency of markets, and economic welfare.  Key topics include preferences, constraints and incentives, production, the market as a mechanism to allocate resources, market failures, principal agent problems, social interaction as games, institutions, the role of the government and the efficiency and fairness of policy. The module will develop students’ critical thinking and reasoning skills. Students will also develop the confidence to interrogate and apply selected microeconomic concepts and models to specific case-studies from post-disaster, conflict, recovery or other humanitarian settings.

Movement across borders is always a social movement and a political movement. Citizenship is not just something conferred or denied by the nation-state, but is...

Migratory Activisms, Creative Citizenship (GEOG0167)

Movement across borders is always a social movement and a political movement. Citizenship is not just something conferred or denied by the nation-state, but is something crafted and claimed at street level. This module examines geographies of creative activism. It centres on two ideas: first, on migratory activism, tracing the trajectories of activist and resistance movements in various global configurations; and second, on creative citizenships, imagining ways of belonging not limited to national borders. These twin focusses encourage students to think across scholarly and activist worlds, developing creative, collective, relational and disruptive ways of thinking and writing. The module opens by following the circulations of activist movements and the development of transnational spaces of resistance, in both historical and contemporary settings. We connect anticolonial resistance with feminist praxis, travelling theory with immigrant protest. The module then turns to everyday creativities enrolled in practices of emplacement. We explore the politics and poetics of relation, thinking alongside people who work to unmake borders, and reimagining citizenship as something disruptive and creative. The module concludes by asking how these activist geographies can be applied to student research projects in different urban, cultural, creative and political settings.

Students will develop the following transferable careers skills on this module: Critical Thinking, Team Working, Presentation Skills, Communication: Written and Verbal, Digital Skills: Audio Production.