Compulsory

The aims of this module are:

  • Introduce core issues in corporate finance suitable for a non-specialist audience.
  • Provide an understanding of how corporate finance relates to, and integrates with, other corporate managerial activities.
  • Develop relevant transferable and practical skills.

The central aims of this module are to:

  • Develop a diversity of perspectives to examine the contemporary financial system.
  • Critically consider the relations between the global financial system and climate change.

The module will enable students to develop a critical understanding of the processes and mechanisms available to governments to respond and manage crisis at different levels. The module will introduce students to the key theories, concepts and applications of the emerging field of crisis management. It has been designed to foster students' capacity to critically analyse and apply this knowledge to a diverse range empirical cases and sites.

The aim of the module is to equip students with knowledge and critical understanding of social science methodologies including issues of research design and ethics. The module introduces students to principles of research design and of data collection and analysis in selected research methods and develops students ability and skills to apply these methods rigorously and reflexively in research practice.

The principal aim of this module is to produce an original critical piece of research specific to the programme on which a student is registered, using appropriate theoretical material, research methodologies and skills in data analysis, interpretation and writing-up.