The success of physiotherapy treatment is often influenced by the degree to which patients engage with it and adhere to recommended behavioural changes. This usually requires a high degree of effort and motivation on the part of the patient and poor adherence is common. A key task for physiotherapists therefore, is enhancing motivation for behaviour change. Traditional approaches to promoting change involve the provision of ‘expert advice’. Whilst this can work some of the time, particularly for acute problems, not all patients are ready, willing or confident in their ability to change and may not be receptive to it (Rollnick, Miller & Butler 2023). Conversations can therefore easily descend into dysfunctional dialogue which can be frustrating for both physiotherapist and patient. Healthy discussions will teach students how to have constructive, meaningful conversations about change, ultimately leading to better patient outcomes. The module draws heavily on motivational interviewing (MI) as a method for guiding these challenging conversations. Students will also learn how the skills and ‘way of being’ that is central to MI may be used to complete the other aspects of their clinical practice.
This module is intended for students from a range of multidisciplinary health or social care backgrounds who are interested in developing and refining their communication skills as a tool for supporting self-management. Background Supported self-management enables people to develop the knowledge, motivation, confidence and skills to make decisions and act in relation to their health. This includes management of health conditions and promotion of their overall well-being. Health and social care practitioners can develop and apply advanced communication skill to successfully support self-management for client-centred health and well-being gains. Focus Through this module you will critically explore relevant theory to help you appraise and apply communication skills that promote shared decision making, client-led behaviour change, and supported self-management. You will have the opportunity to critically reflect upon your own attitudes and beliefs and evaluate how this influences the effectiveness of your therapeutic approach. Your critical exploration of the underpinning evidence base will advance your understanding of communication in relation to supported self-management. Evidence synthesis, contextualisation, and personal critical reflection are used as learning approaches to develop your therapeutic dialogue skills relevant to your own area of practice. There is a strong practical emphasis throughout the module. This allows you to experiment and apply learning through experiential work, skills-based exercises and structured critical reflection. The skills-based content is heavily informed by motivational interviewing for behaviour change.
This course is designed to introduce the phenomena of heat and mass transfer, to develop methodologies for solving a wide variety of practical engineering problems, and to provide useful information concerning the performance and design of particular systems and processes. A knowledge-based design problem requiring the formulations of solid conduction and fluid convection and numerical computation will be assigned and studied in detail.
This module gives a comprehensive coverage of the classical heat transfer syllables, including steady and transient heat conduction, convection and radiation. While the underlying mathematics are properly elaborated, their conceptual significance and physical interpretations are emphasised and enforced through in-class examples. Numerical methods are introduced for problems in 2-3 dimensions and the use of commercial software such as AnsysTM is introduced. In addition to the traditional analysis of heat exchangers, the application section is expanded to introduce heat transfer engineering at different heat flux and/or temperature differences, with emphasis on energy systems and the thermal management of electronic components/devices.
This module aims to introduce and explain some central themes of Heidegger’s early masterpiece, Being and Time. It will explore central concepts such as Being-in-the-world and authenticity and how they relate to established philosophical issues, including external world scepticism, other minds scepticism, the nature of mind, language, self and science.
This module will provide you with an overview of the key events in the reign of Henry VIII including the Field of the Cloth of Gold, the dissolution of the monasteries and war with France in 1513 and 1544. You will have the opportunity to think about what he was like as a king by comparing him with his contemporaries Francis I of France and Charles V of Spain and how he interacted with the leading figures at court such as Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell and Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk. This will be set in context through an evaluation of how Henry VIII has been viewed since his death. You will consider Shakespeare's play Henry VIII or All is True as well as a range of representations of the king in art and film in the 19th to 21st centuries.
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Students are not required to have taken ELEC2206 before taking ELEC3211, but it is strongly recommended.
This module provides a systematic understanding of knowledge and critical awareness of issues related to the management and design of high voltage insulation systems. The course introduces a number of topics related to the design and testing of insulation systems and breakdown phenomena in insulation materials. The students will also be exposed to research activities undertaken within the Tony Davies High Voltage Laboratory. The lectures (seminars) are intended to support student self learning activities and it is expected that the students should make use of a wide range of information resources including current IEC standards and research papers. Two assessment activities are designed to provide scope for students to work as a team (bushing insulation design) and individually (partial discharge classification). A range of skills, including technical (electric field simulation and programming) and transferable skills (presentation) are required to complete the two assignments. Students are not required to have taken ELEC3211 before taking ELEC6225, but it is strongly recommended.
This module examines high, popular and mass cultural forms in twentieth century Spain and Latin America. Attention is particularly paid to the political uses made of those different forms. The module explores the function of popular culture in predominantly rural societies where literacy is low, and the co-option of selective aspects of popular culture for high-cultural purposes. It discusses notions of mass reproduction and its cultural consequences for cultural form and audience response, including the appropriation of mass culture and as developed in Cultural Studies. Recent developments in the field of Cultural Studies will also include notions of globalisation and cultural hybridity. This module will explore how the processes by which certain texts are incorporated into the high-cultural canon, paying attention to texts which have been read both as popular culture and as high culture. Material studied includes theoretical writings on high, popular and mass culture, as well as notions of cultural hybridity and globalisation. Texts studied might include popular prints; photography; popular music; popular cinema; fiction; festivities.
This module introduces the principles and practise of programming, with the assumption that students may not have any prior experience in programming. The teaching language is Python, as this is relatively accessible to new programmers, but also an important language for describing and coordinating computation in real-world problems. The module will introduce the key concepts of imperative and structured programming, and use examples of solving real-world problems with actual data inputs and outputs. By the end of the course, students should be competent programmers, and able to use programming as a tool to solve previously unseen problems.
This module will provide you with a good knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of road traffic flow and its analysis, using this as a basis for you to be able to undertake operational analysis and design of key features of the road transport system, particularly the design of the various types of road junction. You will also learn about the Highway Engineering process from its inception of planning and route location, through detailed geometric design and on to structural design, construction, condition monitoring, maintenance and eventual rehabilitation.
This module combines the two main elements of Highway Engineering – geometric design and road pavement structural design. You will gain an understanding of key issues and practices in both elements, including design case studies where you will put theory in to practice. There is also significant coverage of highway maintenance – an aspect of increasing importance in developed countries with ageing infrastructure.
Hilbert spaces are the natural setting for infinite-dimensional linear systems endowed with geometry. Emerging from Fourier analysis and PDEs, Hilbert methods now unify modern analysis, numerical computation, probability, signal processing, machine learning (kernels/RKHS), and quantum theory. Weeks 1–5 establish foundations: inner products and completeness; projection geometry and orthogonality; bounded operators and adjoints; spectrum and compact operators; and tensor products. Weeks 6–11 revisit the same mechanisms across major domains: Fourier series and wavelets; weak formulations of PDEs and Galerkin methods; RKHS, kernels, and representer theorems; probability as L2 geometry with conditional expectation as projection; martingales; discrete and continuous Itô isometry; and quantum uncertainty as a consequence of Cauchy–Schwarz.
The 'Historical Development of the Common Law' module tells the story of the Common Law and its major developments through a study of some of its most prominent personalities, historical moments and decisive cases. The module charts the development and growth of law from its earliest beginnings in Anglo-Saxon England, through its various transformations, up to the present day - from the earliest extant code of the reign of King Aethelbert of Kent, through Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest, and on through the great constitutional crises and conflicts of the seventeenth century. The emergence of civil liberties and the protection of universal human rights, as well as the troublesome relationship between people and power, freedom and authority, are all brought to life through a study of some of the field's most important historical moments, personalities and cases. Selected works from across the field help to frame these discussions and provide an inspiring and entertaining means through which essential legal skills are encouraged and taught.
The ‘Historical Development of the Common Law' module tells the story of the Common Law and its major developments through a study of some of its most prominent personalities, historical moments and decisive cases. The module charts the development and growth of law from its earliest beginnings in Anglo-Saxon England, through its various transformations, up to the present day - from the earliest extant code of the reign of King Aethelbert of Kent, through Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest, and on through the great constitutional crises and conflicts of the seventeenth century. The emergence of civil liberties and the protection of universal human rights, as well as the troublesome relationship between people and power, freedom and authority, are all brought to life through a study of some of the field's most important historical moments, personalities and cases. Selected works from across the field help to frame these discussions and provide an inspiring and entertaining means through which essential legal skills are encouraged and taught.
The module addresses memory activism relating to state violence in Latin America since the 1990's
