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The Professional Geographer is a high-level skills practical module. The module aims to help students understand the changing nature of work, the dynamic and diverse labour market for geography graduates and to develop skills, knowledge and experience to successfully identify and pursue career suitable paths. By working with internal and external experts (people from industry) students will develop academic knowledge and professional skills. Lectures will be complemented with interactive workshops and practical sessions that will enable students to reflect on and develop different aspects of career development and employability. For example, identifying potential jobs and career trajectories, preparing personal statements and applications, developing traditional resumes as well as a web-presence and successfully negotiating interviews and assessment centres.

Students will complete a series of professional development tasks throughout the semester and complete a professional development reflection and labour market entry plan.

The Professional Geographer is a high-level skills practical module. The module aims to help students understand the changing nature of work, the dynamic and diverse labour market for geography graduates and to develop skills, knowledge and experience to successfully identify and pursue career suitable paths. By working with internal and external experts (people from industry) students will develop academic knowledge and professional skills. Lectures will be complemented with interactive workshops and practical sessions that will enable students to reflect on and develop different aspects of career development and employability. For example, identifying potential jobs and career trajectories, preparing personal statements and applications, developing traditional resumes as well as a web-presence and successfully negotiating interviews and assessment centres.

Students will complete a series of professional development tasks throughout the semester and complete a professional development reflection and labour market entry plan.

This module will be an introduction to the psychology of metal health and wellbeing.

Students will first learn about the links between wellbeing and mental health. We will also cover how we define and categorise mental health using modern diagnostic systems, with examples from a few mental health conditions. They will also cover how research has influenced our evolving scientific understanding of mental health.

Students will be introduced to different perspectives of mental health, links between physical and mental health, sustainability, and how we use mental health theory and research in real-world contexts, such as treatments, policy, and global mental health. The module will also cover how experiences of stigma and inequalities influence the risk, development, and maintenance of mental health problems in the context of different perspectives.

Applied examples will be provided throughout relating to mood and psychotic disorders. Optional individual wellbeing exercises are also introduced to demonstrate theory and research in practice.

Coursework requires students to demonstrate their knowledge and ability to think critically about the module content in novel, applied tasks.

This module will be an introduction to the psychology of metal health and wellbeing.

Students will first learn about the links between wellbeing and mental health. We will also cover how we define and categorise mental health using modern diagnostic systems, with examples from a few mental health conditions. They will also cover how research has influenced our evolving scientific understanding of mental health.

Students will be introduced to different perspectives of mental health, links between physical and mental health, sustainability, and how we use mental health theory and research in real-world contexts, such as treatments, policy, and global mental health. The module will also cover how experiences of stigma and inequalities influence the risk, development, and maintenance of mental health problems in the context of different perspectives.

Applied examples will be provided throughout relating to mood and psychotic disorders. Optional individual wellbeing exercises are also introduced to demonstrate theory and research in practice.

Coursework requires students to demonstrate their knowledge and ability to think critically about the module content in novel, applied tasks.

This module will introduce you to how books are published, printed and brought to market, and to key issues relating to the regulation of print and digital media. We will focus on publishing books in the United Kingdom, but will make useful comparisons with publishing industries beyond the UK. We will be thinking about fiction and non-fiction works, and we will be focussing on ‘trade publishing’. This module will give you the opportunity to engage with research on all the key aspects of the publishing world.

This module will introduce you to how books are published, printed and brought to market, and to key issues relating to the regulation of print and digital media. We will focus on publishing books in the United Kingdom, but will make useful comparisons with publishing industries beyond the UK. We will be thinking about fiction and non-fiction works, and we will be focussing on ‘trade publishing’. This module will give you the opportunity to engage with research on all the key aspects of the publishing world.

In this module, you will examine one of the greatest armies in European history. The Roman army has long excited interest, whether out of an interest in the past, or as a model for more recent military powers. The far-flung province of Britain hosted the largest contingent of Roman military units of any province, with 3-4 citizen legions and up to 50 non-citizen auxiliary units. From the end of the first century AD, conquest ceased, and a frontier was established in the north of England, at first an informal frontier and then the fixed frontier of Hadrian’s Wall. This area has been one of the most important sources of evidence for the Roman army, both textual and material, in particular, the fort of Vindolanda and the Vindolanda Tablets, a unique repository of written evidence from letters to daily manpower reports. What do we know about life on this frontier? Where were the soldiers from? What were their daily routines? How was such a large force supplied? Who else formed part of the military community? Addressing these and other questions, you will study the Vindolanda Tablets and other evidence to reconstruct the lives of this fascinating community.

This module explores the Russian Revolution, assessing the 1880s up until the eve of the First World War. We will look closely at the old regime, considering the political culture of the autocracy and the dynamics behind tsarist rule. It will consider the personality of the tsar, Nicholas II, and his key advisors. But the module will depart from traditional perspectives quite frequently: we will look closely too at wider society – the development of key questions around the peasantry, the working class and also non-Russian identities in the empire. The development of political radicalism will be surveyed from the late nineteenth century through to the Revolution of 1905, as well as the mobilization of the forces of counter-revolution, thinking too about the impact of Russia’s first revolution. The last weeks of the module will explore the era of politics and parliament, the wider crisis in tsarist power in this period, the mobilization of conservative opinion, and the pre-war atmosphere of anxiety. Primary sources are key to the special subject, which will use different genres of sources, including literature, film and the visual arts, to understand historical change. Key to the module are the rich historiographical debates concerning the revolution, and the module will start by looking at some of the more recent developments in the ‘imperial turn’ to help us understand old regime Russia.

This module explores the Russian Revolution, assessing the 1880s up until the eve of the First World War. We will look closely at the old regime, considering the political culture of the autocracy and the dynamics behind tsarist rule. It will consider the personality of the tsar, Nicholas II, and his key advisors. But the module will depart from traditional perspectives quite frequently: we will look closely too at wider society – the development of key questions around the peasantry, the working class and also non-Russian identities in the empire. The development of political radicalism will be surveyed from the late nineteenth century through to the Revolution of 1905, as well as the mobilization of the forces of counter-revolution, thinking too about the impact of Russia’s first revolution. The last weeks of the module will explore the era of politics and parliament, the wider crisis in tsarist power in this period, the mobilization of conservative opinion, and the pre-war atmosphere of anxiety. Primary sources are key to the special subject, which will use different genres of sources, including literature, film and the visual arts, to understand historical change. Key to the module are the rich historiographical debates concerning the revolution, and the module will start by looking at some of the more recent developments in the ‘imperial turn’ to help us understand old regime Russia.

This module explores the Russian Revolution, following a chronology from 1914 until 1924. Part two explores the turmoil of the First World War, the Revolutions of 1917 and then the Civil War period (c. 1917-21). It will look closely at the First World War period (1914-17) and integrate recent literature into its study. We will then turn to the Revolutions of 1917 – the role of the opposition, the abdication of the tsar, the uncertain era of Provisional Government and the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917. Then we survey developments during the tumultuous Civil War era and consider how this critically impacted upon the development of the Bolshevik party. The chronology ends with an exploration of the political culture of the early Soviet state, concluding with the death of Lenin, and the culture-building around the Bolshevik party. The module will consider a wide variety of different source materials during seminars and focus on the role of culture in the construction of the revolutionary project throughout Russia’s early twentieth century. It will end with consideration of the Revolution’s contested legacy: what has the Russian Revolution done for us?