The module will develop a detailed understanding of advanced separation processes, including processes that have simultaneous heat and mass transfer. The main objective will be to learn how to design and size processes that are used in industrial separations.
This module introduces students to the discipline of Urban Design. Students will be able to develop outline design proposals for the urban realm that integrate an understanding of contextual analysis, place making techniques and urban design theories at various scales. This module builds on knowledge and skills introduced in Design 2, and provides important requisite knowledge and skills to the design projects in the fourth year.
This module provides an introduction to the sub-discipline of urban geography and the topics and approaches it covers, including urbanisation, urban development, urban policy, current urban challenges, and current debates in urban geography.
The module covers two main themes. One looks at the types of process that are used to purify water to a standard acceptable for distribution. The subject material is taught so as to give a fundamental understanding of the physical, chemical and biological mechanisms involved in these operations. Water quality standards relevant to water use are briefly reviewed, along with the rationale for the adoption of such standards from the perspective of protection of public health. The other part of the module looks at the sources and types of wastewater that are generated by an industrialised society, with a focus on urban wastewaters. These are considered from the viewpoint of how treatment is carried out so as to prevent environmental damage upon discharge. The taught element of the course covers the various unit operations and processes concerned with the preliminary, primary and secondary treatment of municipal wastewaters. The treatment of the biosolids generated as a result of wastewater treatment is also analysed in relation to the final disposal options.
In this module, students will have the opportunity to apply and expand upon their learning across the programme specifically in relation to urgent, unscheduled and critical care. This module is well suited to those who wish to go on and work in urgent, unscheduled and critical care settings specifically. As part of this module, you will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge of a range of health conditions that are commonly experienced in these settings and critically consider the range of different approaches that are taken to their management. Alongside this, you will have the opportunity to consider your role in these settings, alongside the roles of the wider multidisciplinary team, and how effective teamwork can improve care quality and safety in these settings.
In this module, students will have the opportunity to apply and expand upon their learning across the programme specifically in relation to urgent, unscheduled and critical care. This module is well suited to students who have an interest in this area of practice or those who may wish to go on and work in urgent, unscheduled and critical care settings. As part of this module, students will have the opportunity to apply their knowledge of a range of health conditions that are commonly experienced in these settings and critically consider the range of different approaches that are taken to their management. Alongside this, students will have the opportunity to consider the children’s nurses role in these settings, alongside the roles of the wider multidisciplinary team, and how effective teamwork can improve care quality and safety in these settings.
Dividing humanity into groups is fundamental to how societies have defined themselves and developed. Group identity can be built upon perceptions of difference, developing in opposition to groups which societies or cultures reject. Thinking about how exclusion happens is fundamental to human experience and understanding it is essential for any student of history. This module will focus on the construction of identities in the past with particular emphasis on representation of difference, exclusion, and ‘othering’. Examining class, gender, disability, sexuality, race and religion, 'Us and Them' aims to show how narratives about minorities or under-represented groups have developed and the context that led to such narratives.
A system is as secure as its weakest link. When we neglect how humans use the system and fail to design the system for them, we are actively setting humans up to be the weakest link of the system. This module aims to approach security and privacy issues through a human-centric approach, bringing knowledge from computer systems, psychology, human-computer interactions (HCI), ethics, and public policies. The module will cover core security and privacy technologies, as well as HCI techniques for conducting robust user studies. Topics will include usable authentication and access control, anonymity tools, privacy notices, security warnings, and usable security and privacy issues in various domains, such as social media, web, mobile computing, IoT, and ML/AI.
From Plato’s Republic and Thomas More’s Utopia to Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale and Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, utopias have always been haunted by the spectre of the dystopian. If utopias imagine alternative ways of organizing society, dystopia uses the conventions of utopia to ask questions about the limits of such utopian ideals. This module invites you to consider the wider cultural, spatial, historical, philosophical, and ecological implications of the utopian and the dystopian in a range of literary and cultural texts. The module begins with work that raises questions about the longer history of utopia in literature and culture. You will then work with cultural texts and debates that explore the relationship between dystopia and totalitarianism, disaster capitalism, and global catastrophe. Across the module, you will explore utopian and dystopian narratives from Africa, Britain, North America, and other parts of the world, and you will consider the importance of utopia and dystopia to debates about modernity, gender, identity, capitalism, imperialism, climate change, reproductive rights, terrorism, and state violence.
PWPs operate at all times from an inclusive values base which promotes recovery and recognises and respects diversity. Diversity represents the range of cultural norms including personal, family, social and spiritual values held by the diverse communities served by the service within which the worker is operating. Workers must respect and value individual differences in age, sexuality, disability, gender, spirituality, race and culture. PWPs must also take into account any physical and sensory difficulties people may experience in accessing services and make provision in their work to ameliorate these. They must be able to respond to people’s needs sensitively with regard to all aspects of diversity. They must demonstrate a commitment to equal opportunities for all and encourage people’s active participation in every aspect of care and treatment. They must also demonstrate an understanding and awareness of the power issues in professional / patient relationships and take steps in their clinical practice to reduce any potential for negative impact this may have. This module will, therefore, expose PWPs to the concept of diversity, inclusion and multi-culturalism and equip workers with the necessary knowledge, attitudes and competencies to operate in an inclusive values driven service.
This module takes an empirical approach to questions such as: - Are there patterns of speech and language associated with males and females in varieties of English? - What is the role of teenagers in the propagation of change in English? - After a certain age are our accents ‘set’ or can we change over our lifespans? - How do migration and language contact lead to the birth of new English dialects? The module provides a comprehensive introduction to the sociolinguistic paradigm – the quantitative approach to linguistic variation. Through reference to seminal studies, as well as recent advances in the field, we examine how social factors such as age, gender, ethnicity and social network etc. impact on patterns of variation and change in English.
