This module aims to provide a broad and stimulating introduction to the theory of computing.
This module will build on all previous level 4 modules. It will enable you to engage therapeutically with individuals and groups, drawing on and consolidating your occupational therapy skills. This will provide you with the opportunity to improve your competency and confidence while delivering occupational therapy interventions.
Hydrocarbon fuels contribute more than 85% of world energy production, but also contribute more than 60% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. As research continues to find alternative and more sustainable energy production technologies hydrocarbon fuels will continue to be the primary energy supplier therefore measures need to be taken to improve their efficiency and minimise anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. This module addresses thermo-fluid processes underlying technologies which use hydrocarbon fuels in a more sustainable manner, including carbon capture, utilisation and storage, and enhanced oil and gas recovery. To enable students to develop technology for these applications, this module equips students with physical insight and engineering methods for heat and mass transport, chemically-reacting flows, multi-phase flows, and porous media flows.
Enables students to analyse and design advanced power, propulsion, heating and cooling systems using thermodynamic principles.
Core Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics for all Engineering Themes. Students should be aware that this module requires pre requisites of Mathematics
This module provides a foundational understanding of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics to Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering students, placing significant emphasis on the critical application of these principles to aerospace systems. It equips students with the requisite knowledge and tools essential for subsequent modules encompassing aircraft and space propulsion, aerodynamics and high-speed gas dynamics. In the thermodynamics section, students delve into the laws of thermodynamics in the context of aerospace applications, learning how these principles underpin the design of aerospace systems. The fluid mechanics section provides a comprehensive perspective of fluid properties, flow regimes, and conservation laws, with an emphasis on applying these concepts to the analysis of aerospace components and systems.
Being human involves an inseparable relationship with things, both made and found. People make things, as things make people, and to envisage a human being who is not in some way formed by the objects they use, wear, live in, venerate or trust in is inconceivable. In this module we explore approaches to the archaeology and anthropology of things/objects/artefacts/material culture. Alongside the methods and theories employed to interrogate and make sense of material culture, we look at how objects provide a key source of evidence for understanding aspects of the human past, including technology, identity, exchange, subsistence practices, power relations and interventions into supernatural worlds. Complementing archaeological approaches, the module offers an introduction to ethnographic studies of people and their material worlds from pre-Contact contexts to modern Britain, highlighting the complex and entangled nature of human-thing relations.
This module will provide an introduction to time series models in common use and their use for predicting future observations and/or estimating unobservable components like trend and seasonal effects.
This module explores the properties of a wide range of models and statistical techniques used to describe and analyse Economic and Financial time series data. The aim is to highlight the usefulness of theoretical time series techniques for understanding data patterns and explore dynamic causal linkages.
Computer science is now a mature discipline, with a well defined curriculum, for example from the ACM/IEEE joint task force, or the UK's Quality Assurance Agency. Any student of computer science should be familiar with a range of topics such as computability, algorithms, computational complexity, computer design, programming language design, programming methodology, data structures, information retrieval, parallel and distributed computing, computer networks, cyber security and artificial intelligence. In addition, computing students should be aware of the effects their field has had, and will continue to have, on individuals, organisations, and society. This module gives an opportunity to review the breadth of computer science, to focus on some key ideas, and to reflect on its wider impact.
Evolution is a changing model of how we understand life. The Darwin-Wallace model, its integration with Mendellian genetics and its formalisation in the Modern Synthesis built a stable backbone for evolutionary biology over the last 150 years. Today, however, the field is expanding scientifically and conceptually in many new ways. The integration of evolutionary thinking with developmental biology has been one of the biggest extentions in the last decades and more recently there is growing awareness that evolutionary and ecological timescales cannot be treated separately as they have been. Meanwhile, new understanding of epigenetic inheritance, niche construction and phenotypic plasticity challenge conventional frameworks and assumptions – motivating interest in an ‘Extended Evolutionary Synthesis’. The EES is a novel way of looking at evolutionary phenomena, which, rather than replacing the Modern Synthesis, seeks to enhance and energise evolutionary thinking. It focuses on four converging themes, Developmental bias, Developmental plasticity, Inclusive inheritance and Niche Construction (see http://extendedevolutionarysynthesis.com/ for more details). In this module we will introduce the relevant topics from pre-Darwinian ideas right up to current thinking and outstanding research questions. We will also introduce practical skills in evolutionary sciences, which will be further expanded in the BIOL6089 module in semester 2. Altogether, we will explore the ways that evolutionary biology interfaces with 21st century science.
The module will introduce students to the monetary economics literature and in particular to New Keynesian framework which is at the heart of the medium-scale models used by many central banks. The core of the module will focus on the relationship between the inflation dynamics, the business cycle and the design of monetary policy.
The main objective of this module is to expose students to the state-of-the-art discussion in a range of macroeconomic topics: growth, unemployment, taxation, and monetary policy. The approach is to study a simplified version of some widely used models in the current macroeconomic literature. Emphasis will be put on understanding model assumptions in order to identify the key factors shaping the response of these models to key policy questions.
