This module provides students with an understanding of the development and structure of UK primary care and the important role it plays in population health...

This module provides students with an understanding of the development and structure of UK primary care and the important role it plays in population health management. Students will touch on emerging population health issues, both in the UK and internationally, such as: the health effects of globalisation, delivering primary care for excluded groups and health protection responses to outbreaks (e.g. measles) and pandemic threats.

Artificial Intelligence|Ethics|Public Policy|Social Policy|Sociology of Science and Technology|Technology|Technology Management

This module goes inside technology to discuss its political and ethical dimensions. Technologies shape our future in powerful and largely unaccountable ways....

This module goes inside technology to discuss its political and ethical dimensions. Technologies shape our future in powerful and largely unaccountable ways. Are they inevitable, or can we control the technologies that we get, anticipate their implications, prevent hazards and share their benefits? Why do we have iPads and space shuttles, but we don’t all drive electric cars and have clean drinking water in the developing world? Were the Fukushima nuclear meltdown and the financial crisis just accidents? What could regulators have done to prevent them? As science introduces new risks and ethical dilemmas, what should governments do to control research, publication, patenting and innovation? The module will teach students to think and write clearly and critically about technology.

The module involves the student undertaking a substantial piece of independent scientific or engineering research under the guidance of a UCL academic member...

The module involves the student undertaking a substantial piece of independent scientific or engineering research under the guidance of a UCL academic member of staff working in the broad area of nanotechnology.