Many researchers in the social sciences use SPSS to perform data analysis, but often formal training in use of the software and how to interpret output is severely lacking. This course aims to eliminate the quantitative skills deficit which exists among many social science researchers.This course

Together with a shift of emphasis from usability engineering to user experience (UX) design where users' values, feelings and needs are regarded as important as their task-oriented performance, HCI appears to have become a cauldron in which research methods from associated disciplines are brewed.

Real Analysis is the area of mathematics dealing with real numbers and the analytic properties of real-valued functions and sequences. It studies concepts such as continuity, differentiation and integration and it can be roughly described as rigorous calculus with real numbers. In this course we

This course presents the fundamentals of qualitative research methods. It covers the classic sources of qualitative data: interviews, focus groups, participant observation and documentary and historical work. It also discusses the challenges and opportunities of new media including visual images

This combined language and politics course enables students to study Chinese language alongside a comprehensive introduction to Chinese politics and society. Students will undertake one of two levels of Chinese language; Beginners Chinese (level 1) is designed for ab initio learners and does not

The massive expansion of the NGO sector around the world since the 1980s is widely recognised. At the same time, the emergence of neoliberalism has directed the shift from public to private sector-led development, including the 'privatisation' of aid. NGOs have been a vital part of this shift, with

This course offers an introduction to MCA, which is a method that allows researchers to observe the patterning of complex data sets through representing categorical variables as points in N-dimensional space. Although it was developed from the later 1960s, MCA has not previously had a large

This program provides students with broad understanding of political, economic and societal developments in the contemporary Middle East. It is based on an interdisciplinary approach and combines lectures, discussions, and meetings with politicians and practitioners. In addition to the seminars in

This course offers in part one a theoretically focused introduction to the methodologies of transnational law and legal pluralism and then applies these methods in parts two and three to a comparative study of major traditional and modern laws and legal systems of Asia and Africa. The discussions

This course focuses on an interdisciplinary socio-legal study of the interactions of English law and various ethnic minorities who tend to import their own cultures on their own terms. Initial conceptual and theoretical sessions on migration history, assimilation/integration, legal pluralism,