The dissertation is the capstone project and represents the largest share of the credits on this Masters programme. It gives students the opportunity to focus...

The dissertation is the capstone project and represents the largest share of the credits on this Masters programme. It gives students the opportunity to focus intensively and develop their own area of research interest. The other core modules on the programme feed directly into (or run in conjunction with) the dissertation project.

While selecting dissertation topics is a student-led process, given the programme’s clear focus on the intersection of the creative, cultural and health domains and in particular the need for robust datasets on the efficacy of non-clinical health interventions, we would expect that most student dissertation projects will seek to contribute to this limited, but growing, body of research. Moreover, students will work on their research projects in collaboration with one of our selected community partner organisations. Consequently, the specific focus of their dissertation may be the outcome of a joint exploration (between the student, the partner organisation and the supervisor(s)) of the need to enhance research on a specific area of creative health relating to the work (and client group) of the particular partner organisation.

This module is taught on the UCL EAST campus in Stratford.

This module introduces Level 4 undergraduate students to geographical scholarship that has sought to explain, understand and critically analyse the manifold...

This module introduces Level 4 undergraduate students to geographical scholarship that has sought to explain, understand and critically analyse the manifold relationships between space and society in different contexts. The module will familiarize students with innovative geographical research exploring issues such as, for example, environment and uneven development; culture, the global and the local; transnationalism and migration; gender, race, identity; politics, the state, and regions; empire, colonialism and postcolonialism; nature, materiality, and non-human agencies. In and through such domains of geographical research and theorization, students will be encouraged to grasp and analyse the ways that spatial and social processes are always entwined, and therefore what difference critical geographical analyses at a variety of spatial scales can make to understanding the politics of the social world as we commonly experience and know it. Besides the module’s conceptual emphasis on the entwining of space and society through a number of different registers, the module will focus on contemporary and historical events and case studies in order to emphasize to students the real world value of geographical scholarship.

Students will develop the following transferable careers skills on this module: Critical Thinking, Team Working, Communication: Writing and Verbal, Presentation Skills, Time Management, Cultural Awareness.