LLM SPECIALISATION: INTERNATIONAL WELFARE AND SOCIAL POLICY

LLM Specialisation: International Welfare and Social Policy (LAWS0203)

The aim of this module is to provide module participants with deeper insights into learning and teaching in engineering by:


	Exploring the historical shifts...

Engineering Learning and Teaching: Perspectives and Isssues (EDPS0219)

The aim of this module is to provide module participants with deeper insights into learning and teaching in engineering by:

Exploring the historical shifts in thinking on engineering practice during the 20th and early 21st centuries and their impact on approaches to engineering education and pedagogy so as to provide a historical context for learning, teaching and assessment in engineering;
	Introducing and critiquing current learning, teaching and assessment practices in engineering education, and bringing out their main advantages and disadvantages with a view to identifying the opportunities and challenges for their successful deployment;
	Introducing current debates and issues on the use of technology in engineering education, and exploring and identifying the opportunities and challenges for technology enhanced learning in engineering;
	Exploring current debates and issues in engineering curriculum design, and identifying the opportunities and challenges relating to engineering curriculum transformation;
	Fostering engagement with the current scholarly literature on learning and teaching in engineering and exploring evidence-based approaches for the critical and reflective evaluation of own learning and teaching practice.

POST DISASTER RECOVERY|POST CONFLICT RECOVERY|RECOVERY PLANNING|RECOVERY SPACE

The module provides a critical reflection on the recovery phase of disasters and conflicts in a time when dispossession, displacement and reproduction of...

Post Disaster Recovery: Policies, Practices and Alternatives (DEVP0001)

The module provides a critical reflection on the recovery phase of disasters and conflicts in a time when dispossession, displacement and reproduction of vulnerabilities as well as structural societal inequalities are exacerbated. More broadly, it will contribute to your abilities to assess critically the ways in which actors are engaged in recovery processes through interactions of the physical environment, policy frameworks, governance and community action and how different responses are shaped and shaping particular constellations of mobilities and immobilities regimes. The strategic significance of recovery planning will be reflected through the prisms of displaceability and (im)mobility to develop a renewed vocabulary and new territories of investigation across several disciplines. Leaving in the background the pure emergency phase and its problematic governance, the module will focus on issues as migration, deportation, diaspora, border regimes, ecology, land and planning as well as infrastructures of support, activism, care and cultural heritage and how such dimensions are shaped by discursive practices as “just recovery”, “built, back better” and the conventional language of sustainability and resilience. Open to a plural series of case studies and connected with current research in Europe, Middle East and South East Asia, recovery planning will be framed with mobility (in)justice, critical border studies, camp studies and other critical frameworks to highlight how disempowered, marginal and racialized subjects are experience forced displacements, evictions and expulsions and how rights to mobility and inhabitations are shaping territories, landscapes and development opportunities.