City, University of London of University City, Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 Prospectus Postgraduate

www.city.ac.uk Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 Introduction 1 Welcome Why City? 2 This is City 4 London is our campus 8 An outstanding student experience 10 A place to build your career 12 Enterprise with impact 14 Ground-breaking research

Taught courses 24 School of Arts & Social Sciences 40 Cass Business School 56 School of Health Sciences 70 The City Law School 78 School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering Information 90 How to apply 92 International advice and support 94 Funding your studies 96 Map

Postgraduate Open Evenings You are welcome to attend the following Postgraduate Open Evenings at City, ahead of the 2020/21 entry:

∙ Wednesday 13th November 2019 ∙ Wednesday 19th February 2020 ∙ Wednesday 3rd June 2020 ∙ Wednesday 11th November 2020

For more details, visit: www.city.ac.uk/study/visit-us 24 School of Arts & Social Sciences 67 Language and 26 Economics Communication Science 28 English 67 Midwifery 29 International Politics 68 Nursing 31 Journalism 68 Optometry 35 Music 68 Radiography 35 Psychology Welcome 37 Research Methods 70 The City Law School 37 Sociology 72 Graduate courses Turning the page is the first step on your 72 Professional legal training 40 Cass Business School 73 Master’s courses path of growth and achievement. 42 Master’s courses 76 Bar Vocational Studies 51 Summer School City, University of London is a special place. As the university of the City 51 Charities courses 78 School of Mathematics, of London, we have strong links with the City, not least because the Lord 53 MBA Computer Science & Engineering Mayor of London is our Rector. 80 Aviation Management 56 School of Health Sciences 81 Civil Engineering For over a century, our academics and students have used education, 82 Computer Science research and enterprise to transform their lives, their communities and 58 Graduate entry courses the world. 62 Health Management, Policy, 86 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Psychology, Research and 87 Library and Information Science In recent years we have invested heavily in our academic staff, our estate Public Health 88 Maritime Operations Management and infrastructure and have almost tripled the proportion of academic 64 Interprofessional courses 88 Mechanical Engineering staff producing world-leading or internationally excellent research. 89 Project Management We recently joined the University of London, further strengthening the diverse, academically excellent environment we provide.

City is a place to study alongside leading academics in central London, one of the world’s most cosmopolitan and opportunity-filled cities.

Turn the page and take the first step. This is City.

Professor Sir Paul Curran President

www.city.ac.uk 1 City, University of London is committed to academic This is excellence and focused of research 46% on business and submitted76% to the last of students are the professions. REF was rated as world- postgraduates leading or internationally excellent* Part of the Greenest University university in London** of London City 140,000 160

Athena SWAN Bronze nd

students’2 union in TEF London for student Silver satisfaction***

Part of the annual Schools Lord Mayor’s 5 Show City Nav app to help Just under navigate campus 20,000 students 162+ Educated former years old Prime Ministers4

* Research Excellence Framework 2014 ** People & Planet League 2019 *** National Student Survey 2019

2 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 3 London is our campus

Maccartney Cruz (MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice), Kristina Nikolova (MSc Speech and Language Therapy) and Ananya Vittal Chavan (LLM Legal Practice).

4 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 5 City’s central London location places it at the heart of some of the most creative areas. From coffee houses and cocktail bars, cosy pubs and art galleries to shopping and outdoor spaces, there is something to inspire everyone in City’s bustling neighbourhoods.

Reka Mezo (LLM Banking and Finance) and Rajkumar Vasant (MSc International Business) at Caravan in Exmouth Market.

Exmouth Market Clerkenwell The Angel, Islington Museum of London Shoreditch A semi-pedestrianised street lined Both a home for history museums A lively part of town known for its Everything you need to know about The streets of trendy Shoreditch are with sidewalk cafes, food stalls and and a hub for creative startups. This restaurants, independent boutiques London under one roof. Also houses lined with creative spaces and vintage restaurants that cater to a worldly trendy area where Charles Dickens and theatres. There is always fun to the London 2012 Olympic Cauldron. shops, not to mention iconic street art palette. This is a great place to eat once lived also has some of the city’s be had whether it is during the day, and the famous Columbia Road and drink. oldest pubs. evening or night. Flower Market.

6 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 107 Wendi Lam (MSc Entrepreneurship), Soe Thet Paing (MSc Health Management) An outstanding and Reka Mezo (LLM Banking and Finance). student experience

City has a lively social and cultural scene with clubs and societies, sporting facilities and opportunities for volunteering and paid employment. We also offer comprehensive support to all our students from day one with staff on hand to support with learning, health and wellbeing, accommodation and careers for life.

A place to eat, drink A highly ranked A home away from home An award winning The largest student sports Find out more and relax Students’ Union City’s Accommodation team, based in Student Centre facility in central London www.citysport.org.uk There is a range of places to eat and City, University of London Students’ the Student Centre, can help you to If you are considering applying CitySport, our leading-edge sports meet friends at City, including coffee Union (CULSU) works to improve find suitable accommodation in halls to City, have been accepted onto centre, is the largest student sports *To find out about competitive shops and sandwich bars, the the experience of City students by of residence or the private sector. one of our courses or you are a facility in central London. One sport, the campus physical activity student refectory and the University’s providing independent advice on current student, our award-winning hundred stations of gym equipment programme and how TeamCity can social hub: CityBar. During the academic issues, supporting student At City, we offer accommodation Student Centre exists to answer your spread over two floors, including support you in whatever sport you day, CityBar is a great place to eat clubs and societies, organising specifically for postgraduate questions. From practical assistance the latest consoles with tablet-style are passionate about, visit: or relax. In the evening it becomes events and ensuring that your students in halls of residence, with your finances, finding screens, internet access and device www.city.ac.uk/sport a vibrant social space, hosting a voice is heard on key student issues. contracted for the University’s somewhere to live and travelling connectivity are available at the range of events organised by the use through independent housing around London, to course advice, touch of a finger. For those who Students’ Union and student clubs Find out more providers. City’s postgraduate halls medical support and just about prefer group exercises, there are and societies. www.culsu.co.uk of residence are self-catered facilities anything else, the Student Centre purpose-built studios for mind and within easy travelling distance of the can help. body classes, indoor studio cycling, main University buildings. We have martial arts and student team sports*. some accommodation suitable for Find out more students with mobility difficulties. www.city.ac.uk/student-centre At the heart of the centre is the Find out more Saddlers Sports Hall, an elite, Olympic-standard competition space www.city.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/ adapted to Sport England standards accommodation and able to accommodate several court sports.

8 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 9 Jon Snow, journalist and television presenter with students in the School of A place to build your Arts and Social Science’s Television Studio. career

City’s location in the centre of one of the world’s most diverse and fast-paced cities, combined with its highly international community of students and staff, mean the institution has developed close links with an extensive network of global academic partners. These ties ensure that our students enjoy excellent employment prospects.

Specialist careers advice Careers workshops and Graduate, internship and Sector-specific panel events Student volunteering The friendly and helpful Careers presentations placement opportunities Panel events are an opportunity Improve your employment chances Service staff are on hand to help Find out about potential employers’ With City CareersHub, our specialist to explore and discover the by developing new skills through you evaluate your career goals and recruitment arrangements and polish online service, you can discover range of sectors, industries and volunteering. Recent volunteers plan the steps you need to take to your job search techniques. Major internship opportunities available opportunities available to you from have worked with a broad range achieve them. Discuss your plans employers visit City regularly to give during your studies and identify investment banking to engineering, of organisations, both on and off at one-to-one appointments and presentations, attend careers fairs graduate opportunities for life after government and international campus. Once you have completed discover our extensive careers and run skills sessions, while careers City. All City students and graduates relations to creative industries. a placement, the Careers Service resources, which include computer- consultants and employers frequently are registered on the site, along with They are designed to enable you to will help you articulate your newly aided guidance packages and hold workshops on subjects such more than 5,000 employers such ask questions to a range of industry found skills through your CV and aptitude testing systems. as successful interviews and as the BBC, Bloomberg, Deloitte, professionals and experts who will during interviews. presentation skills. Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Macfarlanes share their own career stories, top LLP, PwC, Santander and The Times. tips and industry news. These Find out more events often feature City alumni. www.volunteering.city.ac.uk

10 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 11 Located between the Today’s City students share City Launch Lab knowledge and resources in a City of London and Tech City Launch Lab is a specially London-wide community of budding designed incubation space that City, Europe’s largest entrepreneurs, while exploring provides business mentoring cluster of digital and opportunities to bring their expertise support and access to an accelerator and ideas to a wider audience than programme to kick-start your technology startups, we are ever before. business as well as free desk committed to developing space for student and graduate The benefits of being on the doorstep entrepreneurs from City. the next generation of of Tech City include excellent student Enterprise entrepreneurial talent employability, research relationships Find out more and business collaborations. EC1V within the student and (City’s postcode) and neighbouring www.city.ac.uk/launchlab graduate community. postcode N1 are both among the top UK postcodes for starting a with impact Made@City business*. In 2016, around 17,000 new businesses were started within An end-of-year celebration to these postcodes. showcase and reward final-year student project work, Made@City If you want to start your own brings together students, staff and company, City’s focus on Enterprise alumni from City with members of Education is designed to help you the local Tech City community. develop the entrepreneurial mind set and skills needed to thrive in Find out more an increasingly competitive and www.citystarters.co.uk/ challenging world. made-at-city

CityStarters Start-Ed The CityStarters team runs a wide Start-Ed is a free walk-in centre range of extracurricular Enterprise offering advice on a range of business Education events, programmes and and legal matters to businesses and activities that are free of charge technology startups. and accessible to all students and graduates studying at City. Cass Entrepreneurship Fund Find out more The Cass Entrepreneurship Fund is www.citystarters.co.uk/cityventures a £10 million venture capital fund, /start providing growth equity to startup and early-stage companies. CitySpark This ‘business design and doing’ Peter Cullum Centre of competition is an opportunity for Entrepreneurship (PCCE) City students to win up to £5,000 to The PCCE is a focal point for budding develop a new business idea, test it and established entrepreneurs. It with potential customers and then brings together the skills, experience make it happen. and networks of successful entrepreneurs, financiers and Find out more business leaders and offers a www.city.ac.uk/cityspark range of short courses and support services to entrepreneurs.

* UHY Hacker Young research

12 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 1613 Postgraduate research Ground-breaking opportunities Research is a vital part of City. With world-leading academics and over 450 doctoral students, our research is driving positive change and making a difference to society. We offer each research student the opportunity research to work closely with their academic of choice in a stimulating and supportive environment that is designed to support their learning and development.

Students operating the spectrally calibrated monitor in the Colour Research Laboratory available in the School of Health Sciences.

14 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 15 Doctoral study at City can lead to a PhD or an alternative School of Arts & research degree such as a professional doctorate. It involves Social Sciences three to four years of full-time study of original research on a specific topic, while under the supervision of an expert The School of Arts & Social Sciences is a vibrant and cutting-edge Research degrees academic from one of our five Schools. research environment, recognised MPhil/PhD/DPsych nationally and internationally. It has niche areas of research with 75 per cent of research submitted to the last REF rated as world-leading or Duration internationally excellent. Full-time: up to four years

The School provides dedicated Part-time: up to seven years shared office space for PhD research The School offers research degree and an extensive programme of supervision across its core disciplines: research methods, training and career development sessions. We ∙ Culture and Creative Industries are also members of the Bloomsbury Postgraduate Skills Network, ∙ Economics (health, regulation, which facilitates access to a range finance, monetary, fiscal and of research methods classes across macroprudential policy) other University of London partners. ∙ English ∙ International Politics Each department organises a (development and globalisation, research seminar series that enables civil society, history and religion, doctoral students to engage with global political economy and the latest ideas and developments governance) relating to their specialist topic. All (history, ethics, doctoral students are expected to ∙ Journalism law and regulation, digital attend these seminars and to present practice, representation and on their own research at least once democratisation, business a year. and leadership)

Departments may be able to provide ∙ Music (ethnomusicology, funding for attendance at national musicology, composition and and international conferences and technology) the University’s Graduate School ∙ Psychology (clinical, social provides further opportunities. and cognitive neuroscience, Both the School and the University cognitive psychology, counselling organise social occasions throughout psychology, decision-making, the year for the benefit of the PhD behavioural economics and research student community. developmental economics) ∙ Psychology and Social Neuroscience (joint PhD with Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) ∙ Sociology (media and communications, employment, crime and victimology, gender and youth studies). Students should generally enrol for an MPhil research degree and transfer to the PhD after one year of satisfactory academic progress. Students might be required to complete specialist taught modules during the MPhil year.

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16 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 20 Cass Business School School of Health Sciences

Sir John Cass Business School is Executive PhD PhD We are looking for the researchers Research degrees renowned for its impactful, world- of the future to join a dynamic and class research that is as relevant to PhD MPhil/PhD stimulating research environment in MPhil/PhD business and industry as it is the School of Health Sciences. to academia. We are eager to recruit new PhD Our academic staff apply their Duration Duration students from around the world to Duration international perspective and Part-time: four years Full-time: four years build on our vibrant research culture Full-time: three years industry experience to developing in seven areas: food policy, maternal Part-time: six years progressive thinking and exploring The Cass Executive PhD focuses on The Cass PhD is designed for and child health, applied vision, imaginative new research angles on research that makes an impact on students who want to conduct their health services research, language The School of Health Sciences has subjects ranging from marketing to professional practice and broader research in a world-class business and communication science, mental seven research centres: Centre for investment, leadership to innovation. business and society issues. school and an intellectually health and healthcare innovation. Food Policy; Centre for Applied Each student is allocated two or more stimulating environment. Vision Research; Centre for Health Our research centres offer a very dedicated supervisors who will guide It combines expertise in a range Services Research; Centre for supportive and well-resourced their research and foster their of business topics: management, In year one, students attend a PhD- Language and Communication environment for individuals wishing development as academic researchers. finance, accounting and level education programme assessed Science Research; Centre for Maternal to pursue a postgraduate research actuarial science. by coursework, examinations and and Child Health Research, Centre degree (both MPhil and PhD). Together, they form a vibrant a thesis. for Mental Health Research and Candidates explore a wide range of Students participate in regular and well-integrated intellectual Interdisciplinary Research Centre subjects, including the latest scientific On completion of the first year of seminars, assist with teaching community, where collaborations for Healthcare Innovation. and exchanges across fields are insights, theoretical frameworks and education and successful pass of and can take up a suite of training common. This community regularly professional applications, all set in an their transfer panel at the end of the activities, including research There are three routes to an MPhil/ gathers in different seminar series, international context. second year, students are registered methods, advanced statistics and PhD degree within the School: where well developed and less for a PhD. pedagogy. The School is uniquely developed work is presented and The course comprises ten 40-hour placed to offer PhD students access to • Traditional MPhil/PhD: students discussed in a constructive and residential weeks held at Cass, with During years three and four, students several research facilities across the undertake a significant piece friendly atmosphere. Cass offers additional private study. It includes a deepen their research, finish research University of London, including our of original research and write a two PhD programmes, the full-time thesis presentation in year four. articles and present them at workshops extensive clinical networks. thesis based on that research. PhD programme and the part-time and conferences. Every student is The majority of students take Executive PhD programme. Career opportunities expected to submit a thesis and Recent topics that have resulted this route. The Executive PhD supports the career attend a viva voce examination. in PhD awards include: Aspects of The full-time PhD programme development of high-profile, research- quality of life in the patient journey in • MPhil/PhD by Prospective offers specialisations in the fields orientated business professionals Career opportunities glaucoma; Risk perception regarding Publication: students base their of finance, accounting, actuarial who use research to enhance their A common route into academic pregnancy and childbirth; An submission on a series of science, management, marketing understanding of the organisations research is a postdoctoral research exploration of patients’ reconstructive peer-reviewed research papers and operational management. and processes they manage. post or fellowship after completing memories of critical care and nurses’ which they publish during Throughout the programme, the doctorate. While some PhD understanding and response to these: the course of their MPhil/PhD students benefit from comprehensive It is aimed at individuals who are at recipients go on to permanent A qualitative study and Addressing and incorporate this into an research training, including critical points in their careers and academic positions, others pursue health inequalities in disadvantaged overarching thesis that reflects intensive courses in the core topics supports them to change direction or a career in industry research. groups using health psychology theory their work. of their discipline, advanced courses secure more senior positions. and evidence. • MPhil/PhD by Prior Publication: and development workshops and Find out more training designed to prepare them students who have published Find out more city.ac.uk/crds several significant peer-reviewed for the academic workplace. city.ac.uk/cerd research papers spend between The Executive PhD is designed to be one and two years writing an flexible, to enable busy executives extended treatise which draws this to undertake a PhD without having research together with analysis to take a career break. It is designed of previously published work by for senior executives working in others into the context of a single industry, government or not-for-profit overarching thesis. sectors who want a qualification that combines academic rigour and Find out more practical relevance. city.ac.uk/hrds city.ac.uk/health/research

21 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 22 The City Law School School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering

The City Law School has a Research degrees vibrant and dynamic community of scholars and students with MPhil/PhD The School of Mathematics, Research degrees considerable strengths in education Computer Science & Engineering has and research. The School’s research a vibrant research community with MPhil/PhD expertise straddles different an interdisciplinary perspective and areas and approaches, including Duration a greater understanding of the impact doctrinal legal, socio-legal and Full-time: minimum period of of Science, Technology, Engineering interdisciplinary research. Its registration is two years; and Mathematics (STEM) on society. Duration research strengths include but are maximum is four years Full-time: three years not limited to EU and international Part-time: minimum period of Science, technology and Part-time: five to six years law, intellectual property, mathematics permeate nearly registration is three years; commercial and human rights law. every aspect of life. As the pace maximum is seven years The School welcomes applications of innovation accelerates and from candidates who are interested The School is committed to technology grows ever more PhD students are assigned two in studying for a research degree to academic excellence and considers complex, science and technology supervisors to support them address an exciting unsolved its PhD students as part of its are becoming increasingly throughout their research. They problem and advance their career. scholarly community. interdisciplinary, demanding also benefit from the School’s an approach that spans multiple The School offers the following types of Research Training Programme academic disciplines and includes a research degrees: PhD by Major Thesis; which focuses on research skills broader, non-technical perspective. PhD by Prospective Publication; PhD and methodologies, employability by Prior Publication and MPhil. skills, career management and Research in the School focuses not personal development. only on explaining fundamental The School is home to the following principles but also on solving Research Centres, comprising teams PhD students become part of a real-world problems. Through our of academic staff with international stimulating research environment by PhD research courses, we aspire reputations in their fields: Adaptive participating in the activities of the to train future leaders capable of Computing Systems; Aerodynamics School’s research centres, institutes incorporating both technical and and Flow Control; Artificial and groups. non-technical considerations, Intelligence; Biomedical Engineering; whether in academia, business, Civil Engineering Structures; The award of a PhD requires the government or the not-for- Compressor Technology; Cyber submission of a thesis for examination profit sector. Security; Fluid-Structure Interaction; at a viva voce (oral examination) by giCentre (data visualization); two examiners, at least one of whom Human-Computer Interaction Design; is external to City. A PhD thesis (up to Information Science; Machine 100,000 words) must be an original Learning; Mathematics; Multi-scale and substantial piece of work which Geotechnical Engineering; Photonics makes a contribution to the relevant and Instrumentation; Software literature. All students are initially Reliability; Systems and Control; registered for an MPhil degree. Those Temporary Works and Construction students who wish to proceed to a PhD Method Engineering and must upgrade within 18 months (30 Thermo-Fluids. months for part-time students). All doctoral students are initially Find out more registered as MPhil students, except in those circumstances where a city.ac.uk/lrds student has transferred from another institution and has provided suitable and appropriate evidence that permits direct registration as a PhD student.

A research degree provides a superb opportunity for able students to dig deep into a specialist area in order to advance knowledge for the benefit of many. It is a remarkably satisfying and rewarding venture.

Find out more city.ac.uk/erds 20 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 21 Postgraduate taught courses Industry Whether you are looking to continue your educational journey, advance your career or even make a career change, we have over 150 postgraduate taught courses that offer high quality teaching informed by inspired industry insights. courses

Students operating the Airbus A320 Flightdeckt Simulator in the School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering.

22 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 23 The School of Arts & Social Sciences has a world-class reputation for Economics Magazine Journalism MA 34 dynamic, inspiring and rigorous postgraduate education. Academic Business Economics/International Business Newspaper Journalism MA 34 Economics MSc 26 staff at the School are highly regarded in their fields and the research Television Journalism MA 34 Development Economics MSc 26 Music they undertake regularly informs academic debate and political policy Economic Evaluation in Healthcare MSc 26 Sound Practice and Composition MA 35 at a regional, national and international level. Economics MSc 27 Financial Economics MSc 27 Psychology Health Economics MSc 27 Behavioural Economics MSc 35

English Clinical, Social and Cognitive Neuroscience MSc 35 Counselling Psychology PGCert 36 Creative Writing MA 28 Counselling Psychology DPsych 36 Creative Writing MFA 28 Organisational Psychology MSc 36 Creative Writing and Publishing MA 28 Research Methods with Psychology MSc 37 English MA 29 School of Research Method Publishing/International Publishing MA 29

International Politics Research Methods MSc 37 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy MA 29 Sociology Global Political Economy MA 30 Criminology and Criminal Justice MSc 37 Arts & Social International Politics MA 30 Culture, Policy and Management MA 38 International Politics and Human Rights MA 30 Global Creative Industries MA 38

Journalism International Communications and Development MA 38 Media and Communications MA 39 Broadcast Journalism MA 31 Erasmus Mundus MA: Journalism, Media and Sciences Globalisation MA 31 Financial Journalism MA 31 The School’s strengths in research Courses at the School of Arts & Social City’s location, its outstanding Interactive Journalism MA 32 and education lie in the following Sciences are renowned for their academic staff and the professional International Journalism MA 32 disciplines: Economics; English professional relevance. Academic orientation of its postgraduate (including Creative Writing and staff enjoy close ties with industry degrees mean that graduates of the Investigative Journalism MA 32 Publishing); History; International and the professions, which means School of Arts & Social Sciences are Politics; Journalism; Music; Psychology; that when designing and updating successful in securing employment and Sociology, Media, Criminology, courses, they ensure the needs once they graduate. Many of the Cultural and Creative Industries). Over of graduating students and their School’s graduates also move on to 1,000 postgraduate students from potential employers are met. These doctoral-level study, both within around the world join the School links and City’s central London the School and at other leading each year, creating a lively and location ensure that students benefit institutions around the world. stimulating environment for studying from regular lectures, seminars and socialising. Students undertaking and networking opportunities led both taught and research postgraduate by prominent speakers and visiting degrees play a key role in the life of the lecturers. The School’s vibrant School, through their participation in alumni network, which postgraduate seminar series, their research activities, students automatically join upon their contribution to student media and graduation, has among its members their involvement in student politics leading figures in the worlds of and representation. journalism, culture and creative practice and the social sciences.

2427 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 2825 Economics

Business Economics/ Development Economic Evaluation Economics Financial Economics Health Economics International Economics in Healthcare MSc MSc MSc Business Economics MSc MSc MSc School of ArtsSchool & Social Sciences

Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration of ArtsSchool & Social Sciences Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Part-time: two years On the MSc Business Economics/ International Business Economics This master’s course is designed to The demand for specialists in health This course is designed to give In a steadily globalising world, This course is designed to meet course students will not be deriving bridge the gap between economics economics continues to increase as students a solid foundation in the demand for specialists in the demand for quantitative and equations. Instead, they use them to and development, providing strong more advanced and expensive health microeconomics, macroeconomics finance and economics continues microeconomics analytical skills apply economics to current business education in quantitative and policy care puts pressure on policy decision- and econometrics while allowing to grow. This demand exists across in decision-making in the and economic issues. The course is analysis in development economics. makers and industry managers. them to undertake modules across a host of institutions, ranging from healthcare sector. practice-based so students can apply Health economists’ responsibilities different specialisations. policy-making authorities such as their learning. It provides students with an range from identifying new central banks and international It is intended for those who have a understanding of the key issues interventions in healthcare that This combination creates a range organisations to commercial banks background in economics and are Students have access to first-class in economic development, using compete with existing ones to of career options in fields including and brokerages. looking to specialise, although we resources combining data banks rigorous economic theory and appropriate economic modelling to industry, finance, government also offer provision for those who are from City’s Cass Business School and statistical tools to enable them to aid decision-making for funding. and academia. This course is designed to meet such new to economics. the School of Arts & Social Sciences. analyse policies and assess their increasing demand by incorporating This means access to Datastream, impact on economic and The course is designed to meet The course is led by a team of both a solid education in economic There is a research path and a Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, human development. demand by introducing students with academic staff who are leading theory and exposure to the field of literature review path. For the former, Morningstar, Bankscope and Orbis. quantitative, sciences or economics experts in their field of research. finance through several specialised students take six modules and write The course is led by a team of academic backgrounds to both the conceptual options. Most exciting is the unique a dissertation. For the latter, students MSc Business Economics/ staff who are leading experts in their bases for economic evaluation and All students must complete either opportunity to combine exposure take eight modules and produce International Business Economics field of research. in health economics, the advanced an economics literature survey or to regulatory and policy aspects of a literature review. Core modules students benefit from City’s central quantitative methods relevant to an economics dissertation. Students finance with a thorough education in include economic evaluation, health London location. With City attracting All students must complete four core healthcare decision-making. who choose to complete the literature theory and quantitative methods. economics, microeconomics and high-profile visiting lecturers and modules and either a literature survey survey must take eight modules econometrics. Elective modules can speakers from the world of economics, or dissertation. Students who choose It includes modules in economic (three core modules and five elective All students must complete either a be taken from across the department business and finance, students will the literature survey can choose four evaluation, health economics, modules). Students who choose the financial economics literature survey and include economic evaluation, have the opportunity to build useful electives. The dissertation option allows quantitative methods, economic dissertation must take six modules or a financial economics dissertation, epidemiology, regulation insights and contacts for their students a choice of two electives. evaluation workshops (modelling), (four core modules and two which will affect the amount of and competition. future careers. welfare economics and epidemiology. elective modules). elective modules they can take. Career opportunities Students are also required to write Career opportunities Career opportunities Career opportunities Graduates of this course enjoy a dissertation. Career opportunities This MSc prepares students for When it comes to employer employment possibilities in both the Graduates of this course enjoy a wide Graduates of this course enjoy a wide career opportunities in areas such recognition, City has a strong public and private sectors, including Career opportunities range of employment possibilities range of employment possibilities in as economic consultancies and reputation for quality. Graduates consultancy and economic analysis. Students will be prepared for in both the public and private both the public and private sectors, think-tanks, teaching and research from this course have found career opportunities in economic sectors, including consultancy and including consultancy and financial positions, professional associations employment in the financial sector, In addition, this course provides consultancies, think-tanks, financial analysis. Recent graduate analysis. The course also serves as and governmental bodies, NGOs multinationals, consultancy, students with the skills to work the pharmaceutical industry, destinations for this course include: a stepping stone to an economics and policy analysis for the international organisations, in consulting firms specialising professional associations, Economic Analyst, BlackRock; or finance PhD. Recent graduate pharma industry. academia and the Government in development, governmental government bodies, NGOs Assistant Economist, Department for destinations for this course include: Economic Service. bodies such as the Department for and research positions. Transport; Cash Funding Analyst, Economic Analyst, BlackRock; Recent graduate destinations International Development (DFID) Mizuho International and Researcher Cash Funding Analyst, Mizuho include: NICE, Eli Lilly, Oxford Our graduates include Yuliya or in major international financial Graduate destinations include: NICE, and Economist, Ipsos Mori (Policy International and Quantitative Outcomes, Gallaher, IQVIA, Office Bashmakova, Senior Gas Control and development institutions. The Parexel, IQVIA, the NHS, Kovis, Eli and Evaluation). The course has Analyst, BNP Paribas. of Health Economics and PhD Scheduler for ExxonMobil and MSc also provides a solid academic Lilly, Office for Health Economics, also served as a stepping stone to positions at Oxford, Warwick, Youssef Intabli, Account Manager foundation for students wishing to United Nations, Fidelity, Johnson & economics PhD courses both in Sheffield and UCL. at Bloomberg. pursue doctoral research in economics. Johnson, Novo Nordisk, Synovate Europe and the USA. Find out more city.ac.uk/sfec and Tomtah. Find out more Find out more Find out more Find out more city.ac.uk/shec city.ac.uk/sbei city.ac.uk/sdec Find out more city.ac.uk/seco city.ac.uk/seeh

26 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 27 English International Politics

Creative Writing Creative Writing Creative Writing English Publishing/ Diplomacy and MA MFA and Publishing MA International Foreign Policy MA Publishing MA MA School of ArtsSchool & Social Sciences of ArtsSchool & Social Sciences Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Full-time: one year Full-time: two year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Part-time: two years Part-time: four years Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Part-time: two years

Based in the heart of commercial and This course is for students who want This master’s course is ideal for This distinctive course approaches MA Publishing/International This degree explores issues and literary London, this course has a to complete a longer, potentially students who want to have a English as an academic subject that Publishing covers all types of problems in the study of foreign distinguished track record in helping publishable piece of creative writing. grounding in the business of makes a significant contribution to publishing, from trade and specialist policy through an engagement students to publication. publishing while fostering their cultural and social life. The course publications to novels and non-fiction. with the theoretical and real-world The MFA Creative Writing is a two- creative ambitions. aims to enable students to develop a Students complete core modules in term dimensions of foreign policy analysis, Available as either full-time or part- year course which helps students range of subject-specific, transferable one with options in term two, including a salient strand of International time, the course helps students to develop advanced creative writing Attracting a diverse group of students and employability skills. commercial and creative publishing Relations Theory. It focuses on develop their skills in creative skills. The first year follows the taught with a wide range of backgrounds, projects, an interactive media module, traditions and techniques in the areas writing and educates them in how curriculum of the MA in Creative the course welcomes both The MA English allows students to a libraries and publishing module and of strategy, diplomacy and decision- to craft their work for the modern Writing, while the second asks experienced and aspiring writers focus solely on English literature a digital culture option. The course making, in the context of foreign publishing environment. students to complete an independent and will appeal to anyone writing or to combine literary scholarship provides a thorough grounding in the policy and economic diplomacy. creative writing project of potentially in the genres of literary fiction, with elective modules in creative drivers of commercial success for print Alongside core workshops dealing publishable length. Students who fantasy, young adult, dystopian writing and/or publishing. Its varied, and digital media, with a focus on the The course deals with a range of with the practice of creative writing, begin the MA in Creative Writing fiction and crime. Students gain innovative assessment regime evolving implications of digital content topics relating to the economic, students can choose specialist options course may apply to transfer the knowledge and skills relevant develops a range of academic and and e-delivery. Students are educated political and professional dimensions in (literary) prose fiction, genre fiction to the MFA after two terms of to professional practice in transferable skills. both by expert scholars with up-to-date of diplomacy and foreign policy with and creative non-fiction. Students taught provision. commercial publishing settings industry knowledge and publishing reference to key regions. It provides work with experienced lecturers and which produce creative content The course’s predominantly practitioners. Together, they support students with a research-led published authors across these genres During the second year of the MFA, for both print and digital formats. contemporary curriculum explores students to develop confidence and education in this dynamic field. and complete their qualification with a students complete an extended piece Delivered by industry professionals questions of identity and genre. skills in the critical analysis of current 15,000-word piece of creative writing. of creative writing (40,000-60,000 and leading published authors, Students benefit from advanced global publishing conditions. Students explore professional words). Students also receive one-to- this course has a strong track theoretical and research training approaches to policy formulation, Career opportunities one tutorial support from one of City’s record in students winning literary and access to London’s outstanding MA Publishing students are decision-making and negotiation The MA Creative Writing helps distinguished staff of experienced prizes, gaining representation and cultural and research facilities. encouraged to complete a 15-credit within organisations and between students develop a practical lecturers and published authors. publishing contracts. Elective modules in publishing and professional placement option competing parties. understanding of the different elements creative writing will enable the and all of the MA International Through exercises, debates and and genres of creative writing today. Career opportunities Career opportunities development of additional, aligned Publishing case studies relate simulations, students experiment It also equips them with a range of The MFA is for students who want to skill sets. directly to current publishing Aspiring writers enjoy exposure to with different ways of defining subject-specific, transferable and develop their ambitions as creative practice projects. publishers and our alumni successes problems, reconciling competing employability skills. In addition to writers while receiving structured Career opportunities include Sonya Lalli’s The Arrangement agendas, facilitating dialogue and publishing their creative work, our support in a higher education The MA English develops key Career opportunities (Orion) and Carlie Sorosiak’s If Birds mitigating risk. graduates go on to employment in fields environment. It is designed to provide Fly Back (HarperTeen). Students transferable skills in research, Current industry knowledge and such as journalism, publishing and a platform for a creative writing career. on the course have won the Orwell critical analysis and oral and written industry-focused projects are Career opportunities literary agencies, digital media, cultural The MFA also offers training and Society’s Dystopian Fiction Prize for communication relevant to a range of an integral part of these courses, organisations, charities and teaching. experience transferable to other areas three years running. The industry graduate careers. English graduates providing experience, contacts The MA Diplomacy and Foreign of employment such as professional placement option also provides work in publishing, advertising and and enhanced publishing skills. Policy is designed for those planning, writing, journalism, the teaching of students with invaluable work marketing, library science, digital or already engaged in, a career in Find out more the diplomatic service, journalism, city.ac.uk/cwma creative writing and publishing. experience in a wide range of media, charities and the heritage Recent graduate job destinations London-based trade, academic industry, teaching and journalism. include: Head of Operations and international organisations (such as and children’s publishers. The MA English also prepares Digital, Fleet Street Publications the UN or the EU) or NGOs (such as Find out more Amnesty International or Oxfam). It city.ac.uk/cwmf students for further MPhil/PhD (USA); Associate Editor, Aleph Book research and expedites their access Company (New Delhi); Editorial and also prepares students for a career in Find out more to such courses. Production Assistant, Thames River political risk, international finance city.ac.uk/acwp Press; Digital Publishing Executive, and think-tanks. Find out more Blackwell’s UK and Account Executive, Faber Factory. city.ac.uk/engl Find out more city.ac.uk/sdfp Find out more city.ac.uk/apip

28 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 29 Journalism

Global Political International Politics International Politics Broadcast Erasmus Mundus Financial Economy MA and Human Rights Journalism MA: Journalism, Journalism MA MA MA Media and MA Globalisation

School of ArtsSchool & Social Sciences MA of ArtsSchool & Social Sciences Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: ten months Full-time: ten months Duration Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Part-time: two years MA Broadcast Journalism is the Full-time: two years The MA Financial Journalism The MA Global Political Economy At the heart of contemporary This is a course where students keystone broadcasting course at City, has proved itself to be the perfect This is a unique two-year master’s provides a cutting-edge perspective international politics are new challenge their own point of view. highly rated by employers and with a training ground for many of the course and part of the prestigious on global economic and financial challenges to enduring problems. It unpicks the idea of human rights national and international reputation. world’s leading news organisations. Erasmus Mundus programme (www. relations, inter-state competition, Increasing concerns such as poverty, and how it structures the way we Students benefit from a diverse cohort This unique course provides both mundusjournalism.com). Students mechanisms of global governance terrorism, conflict, human rights, understand the world, so that of 50 with great networking and peer basic and specialist knowledge, learn as part of a diverse cohort of and processes of transformation economic development, displacement students can identify how those support. On news days, students work allowing graduates to hit the ground individuals from around the world. and change. and the global environment make understandings shape global events. in groups of 15, covering news, sport running, reporting on important and current affairs. The final project international issues from global the study of international politics a Students then focus on developing As this course brings together five The course consists of core modules is a short documentary for television economics to financial markets. unique and exciting challenge. The their critical intellectual skills to leading European institutions in on the history of global capitalism or radio, made individually or in MA International Politics provides challenge conventional views of journalism and media education, and contending approaches from pairs. Tutors include talkRADIO’s Generous funding from the Marjorie students with an opportunity to international politics and how those there is a wealth of international across the political economy award-winning journalist Sandy Deane Foundation allows all students examine and critically evaluate views may be ethically problematic. guest lecturers and academics. traditions. Students then develop Warr, former BBC/ITV producer- to visit Shanghai and New York to issues of the contemporary world. It International Politics and Human The first year is spent in Aarhus specialist knowledge through director Sally Webb, former BBC learn first-hand about these major focuses on the study of global policy- Rights is an evolving subject so University (Denmark), the second elective modules, which cover issues TV reporter Colette Cooney, Reuters global superpower economies. The making using theoretical and real- students explore unique specialisms at City, University of London or such as economic and financial journalist George Negas and BBC course is truly distinctive in its world approaches. In the core module backed by real-world research. Our at Swansea University (Wales), crises, international organisations World Service’s Dr Abdullahi Tasiu international reach and breadth of students are introduced to the critical academics are actively affecting University of Hamburg (Germany) and economic diplomacy, poverty Abubakar. Visiting lecturers include opportunity. By the end of the course, and theoretical study of international policy, conducting research that has or University of Amsterdam and inequality, regionalisation and former Reuters editor Lloyd Watson students will have an extensive politics. Students are then able to shaped World Bank, UNHCR and (Netherlands). globalisation, states and sovereignty choose elective modules covering European governments’ responses to and former editor of The Andrew Marr education in the best professional practice of reporting business and and the rise of new economic powers. their interests, including modules on the resettlement of refugees and other Show, Professor Barney Jones. Other The course also offers exchange financial news, using state-of-the-art development and inequality, security, displaced persons, hosting talks on modules are delivered with the MA opportunities for students to travel to Students benefit from our multimedia facilities and Bloomberg foreign policy and diplomacy, religion, the right to employment in the UK and Television Journalism. one of the following three institutions internationally renowned expertise in and Reuters terminals to produce global economics and financial crises, engaging in study groups around the in the spring of the first year: the field of global political economy, highly prized content. migration, human rights and more. Trump presidency. Career opportunities University of California, Berkeley, exemplified by the leading academic USA; Pontificia Universidad Católica staff who deliver the course, the Our alumni have some of the most Career opportunities Career opportunities Career opportunities de Chile or University of Technology vibrant research culture centred important jobs in production and The skills, knowledge and expertise The skills students learn on this course management in the UK. Work Sydney, Australia. Financial journalists are still in around the City Political Economy demand despite the industry’s Research Centre and City’s central students develop during their time (research, analysis and presentation) experience days during the course on this course open up several career are highly valued by employers. The are vital and owe a lot to City’s Career opportunities difficulties in recent years. Graduates London location. of the course have gone on to work opportunities for them. Whether course gives students the perfect industry contacts. These are Students from the course have for Bloomberg, Reuters, the Financial students are looking to work at an foundation for a career in a range of undertaken over 15 days, usually gone on to work for The Wall Street Career opportunities Times, the BBC, The Telegraph, The NGO supporting developing nations fields, from human rights organisations within the Christmas break and Journal/Dow Jones, the BBC, Reuters, This is a specialised degree enabling Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones, CNBC or closer to home as part of the civil and NGOs to government agencies. students learn to be all-round China Daily, Danish Broadcasting graduates with and without prior and The New York Times. Other service or media, they will develop Students graduate with the ability to broadcast news reporters with Corporation, Helsingin Sanomat, knowledge of economics to engage students have been employed by enviable skills that are highly prized undertake in-depth research, challenge television, radio, social and digital TV 2 Norway, Xinhua News Agency, competently and confidently with specialised business publications in several industries. received explanations of topics in skills. Students will join alumni that Bangkok Post, Associated Press economic and financial developments such as CityWire. Outside London, social and political life and critically work in all parts of the broadcast and Platts. Others are working and pursue professional careers in students are working as journalists in evaluate the complex structure of industry, from conventional for international organisations, the public and private sectors, Find out more other major financial centres such as contemporary international politics. television and radio news to Buzzfeed including the Organisation of international organisations or the city.ac.uk/sinp Hong Kong, Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Vice. On-air alumni include Petroleum Exporting Countries, media. The degree also provides a Dubai and Mumbai. the BBC’s Sophie Raworth and the European Commission or for solid foundation for students wishing Find out more Chris Mason; Sky News’ Dermot international corporations including to pursue doctoral research in city.ac.uk/siph Murnaghan, Isabel Webster and Morgan Stanley. Find out more politics and political economy. Darren McCaffrey; ITN’s Minnie city.ac.uk/afjo Stephenson and many more. Find out more Find out more city.ac.uk/aemj city.ac.uk/sgpe Find out more city.ac.uk/abjo 30 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 31 “I chose City because here I can focus on the Interactive International Investigative Journalism Journalism Journalism research I am interested in. I work together MA MA MA with my supervisors and I have access to a laboratory with state-of-the-art equipment. School of ArtsSchool & Social Sciences of ArtsSchool & Social Sciences Duration Duration Duration City’s location and the resources provided Full-time: ten months Full-time: one year Full-time: ten months to research students contributed to my This exciting and contemporary The International Journalism course This pioneering course is an intense, course continues to develop in was started in 1982 and has built challenging degree designed to equip decision as well.” response to the rapidly changing a worldwide reputation with well students with the reporting and environment of digital journalism over 1,000 alumni working all over research skills needed to produce in the UK and internationally, with the world. Students become adept investigations that matter. Basic Vasiliki Meletaki a focus on social media, multimedia at broadcast, print and online reporting leads quickly to advanced Psychology research student storytelling and data journalism. journalism in a global context. methods, including working with Video and audio work are also They study international news and data, building sources and using geared to online platforms. obtain a profound understanding public records and access laws. of international journalism from a Students are encouraged to UK perspective. Case studies of high-profile undertake work placements to investigations help students further develop the skills they Students practise all platforms of understand how to investigate learn on the course. In addition journalism (broadcast, print and companies, organisations and to online specialisms, students online) and explore theory and reflect individuals for issues of public learn the journalism essentials of on their practice. Our students come concern, miscarriages of justice or writing, reporting, newsgathering, from all over the world and have the abuse of power, within an ethical interviewing and feature writing, benefit of being in one of the world’s and legal framework. Small groups which are core elements of MA most significant media cities with help focus on producing high-quality Interactive Journalism. access to thousands of international narrative writing, while students also journalists and sources. learn professional multimedia skills The course has a strong reputation including audio and film. Students for preparing students for specialist On this course students benefit also complete several complex and jobs, such as data journalism, social from using both traditional and ambitious investigative projects media and audience development, contemporary journalism tools under the tutelage of some of the most as well as broader roles in digital and acquire comprehensive skills. experienced professionals in the field. journalism. Learning from current journalists ensures up-to-date skills Career opportunities Career opportunities and relevant industry contacts. Typically, more than 92 per cent Graduates move into employment of graduates from this course are Career opportunities across print, online and broadcast in employment six months after media, from The Times, The Daily Graduates work in data journalism, completing it. Some go on to further Telegraph, The Guardian to quality social media, audience development, study. Graduates work in both global regionals, trade and current affairs content production and editing, and national media and in allied magazines including The Spectator analytics, reporting, subediting, occupations around the world. Most and New Statesman, Graduates coding, PR and agency work. recently, these have included roles also work for BBC Panorama, Sky Employers include the BBC, AP, from researchers to editors in media News, Bloomberg TV, Buzzfeed, Google, The Economist, BuzzFeed, such as the BBC World Service, Al regional BBC TV, CNN, independent ShortList, Metro, The Times, The Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, CNN, production companies and the Guardian, Financial Times, Daily France 24, Bloomberg, Sky, Fox, Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Mail, The Daily Telegraph, City Thomson Reuters, AP and Dow Some have found work for charities, AM, International Business Times, Jones and major newspapers and non-profit organisations such as Storyful, Citywire, Manchester Evening magazines including The New York Greenpeace or for media News, Vice News and Trinity Mirror. Times, Financial Times, The Hindu, organisations overseas. Politiken, GQ, Euronews, Radio France Internationale and The Times. Find out more Find out more city.ac.uk/ainj city.ac.uk/aivj Find out more city.ac.uk/ailj

32 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 3633 Music Psychology

Magazine Newspaper Television Sound Practice and Behavioural Clinical, Social Journalism Journalism Journalism Composition Economics and Cognitive MA MA MA MA MSc Neuroscience MSc School of ArtsSchool & Social Sciences of ArtsSchool & Social Sciences Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Full-time: ten months Full-time: ten months Full-time: ten months Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Part-time: two years This hugely successful and well- This fast-paced, exciting degree is This course is uniquely well established course prepares students designed to train the future reporters, connected to excellent contacts The course develops skills in the MA Behavioural Economics applies The aim of this course is to provide for a wide range of careers in magazine correspondents and editors of the within the industry and provides broad field of contemporary sound psychological insights to human students with a thorough grounding and features journalism, both in print world’s leading media organisations. 15 work experience days for every practice, encompassing notated behaviour to investigate how people in clinical, social and cognitive and online, from glossy consumer The course was established in 1982 student. Approximately 30 students and digital music, sound art, make economic decisions under neuroscience. Students gain a deep titles to international news journals. and has an exceptional reputation work in groups of 15 on news days, improvisation, performance, various conditions of constraint (e.g., understanding of how different brain Skills learned include: writing long- for helping aspiring journalists gain covering news, sport and current sound studies and interdisciplinary time and knowledge) and influence functions contribute to cognition, form investigative features to arts employment. Students benefit from a affairs. The final project is a 28-minute work. It embraces contemporary (e.g., social pressure). This is an mediate social interaction and and culture reviews; polished central London location, unrivalled television documentary made in sound in all its plurality and important field in modern economics determine mental health, wellbeing profile pieces to podcasts and video industry contacts and a thorough teams of three; these have won provides a critical context for and the social sciences more generally. and psychiatric illness. Students learn editing for online; designing and grounding in the best practices of awards including The Guardian exploring key topics at the frontiers about the latest advances in clinical, subbing print and online pages and professional journalism. Young Journalist of the Year and the of its increasingly overlapping Commercial organisations have long social and cognitive neuroscience picture editing. There is a strong BJTC Documentary Award. Tutors sub-disciplines. known the limitations of individual and develop an appreciation of the entrepreneurial angle to the course The course combines education in include former BBC/ITV producer- decision-making and they routinely reciprocal nature of research and and students learn how to research, reporting, interviewing, writing, director Sally Webb, ABC news Engagement with professional use this knowledge in their commercial practice in these domains. create and launch new media editing, research and newspaper producer Mike Trew, talkRADIO’s creative practice lies at the core of practices (e.g., the anchoring effect products and engage audiences. production (in print and online) with award-winning journalist Sandy the course, which is led by world- of minimum payment on credit The Department of Psychology a concern for professional standards Warr, Reuters journalist George Negas leading composers and sound artists. cards). The real-world implications strives to provide a supportive, Accredited by the Professional and critical and ethical reflection. and BBC World Service’s Dr Abdullahi Students workshop with professional of behavioural economics are varied vibrant research environment and Publishers Association, students Multimedia work is geared to online. Tasiu Abubakar. Visiting lecturers ensembles in-residence EXAUDI and and significant and acknowledged to excellent research-led education, learn from magazine and specialist Students are encouraged to undertake include former Reuters editor Lloyd Plus Minus as well as international provide a powerful and cost-effective delivered by internationally journalists and around 30 visiting work placements to put into practice Watson and former editor of The visitors and present work to the approach to improving human welfare. recognised experts. editors, commissioning editors and the skills they learn at City. There Andrew Marr Show, Professor Barney public at City Summer Sounds editorial directors from the UK’s is scope for students to develop Jones. Other modules are delivered Festival. The course complements This MSc is the only one of its type in The Centre for Psychological leading publishing houses. specialist areas and topics on which with the MA Broadcast Journalism. our research centre SPARC (Sound central London. Unlike other courses, Wellbeing and Neuroscience has they wish to concentrate. Practice And Research @ City), the MA Behavioural Economics at City close links to the community mental Career opportunities Career opportunities which attracts visiting artists to work is based in both the Economics and health services, like City & Hackney Career opportunities Psychology departments, offering Mind, while providing opportunities Graduates occupy top positions in Our employment rate is exceptionally with students through workshops, magazines, newspaper supplements Graduates have gone on to work for lectures, masterclasses, an annual students a good balance of for some students to gain experience high. Our alumni have gained great both disciplines. in clinical settings. and digital content providers, a wide range of news organisations, jobs on- and off-screen including: interdisciplinary symposium and including Harper’s Bazaar, The including national newspapers (The hosts our groundbreaking record Alistair Bunkall, Reporter, Sky News; Career opportunities Career opportunities Guardian Weekend, The Week, Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Osama Bin Javaid, News Anchor, label multi.modal, distributed by BlueJam Media, Stylist, Esquire, New Mail, The Times, Daily Mirror, The Dawn News Pakistan and Al Jazeera; NMC Recordings. Behavioural economists use data to The course provides a gateway to the Statesman, The London Magazine; Sun, The Sunday Times, Financial Claire Burton, News Presenter, BBC better understand human behaviour. clinical professions. Students will B2B magazines such as Architects’ Times, Metro); broadcasters (BBC, Channel Islands; Rose Hughes, Career opportunities These highly valuable skills can be also be well placed should they wish Journal, Estates Gazette, Chemist & Sky, CNBC); online/news agencies Reporter, Sky News; Annabel Archer, The course provides preparation applied in a range of professions, for to undertake further professional Druggist, Travel Weekly; customer (Press Association, Bloomberg, Producer, CNN; Warren Nettleford, for the professional world of sound example to formulate policies or to training in clinical psychology or magazines such as BA’s High Life and HuffingtonPost, BuzzFeed); Reporter, ITN 5 News and many practice and/or a research degree. analyse consumer behaviour. There a related discipline. For students major newspapers including London magazines (New Statesman, Prospect, more. Work experience days are Our alumni find careers in music is increasing demand for behavioural wishing to continue to PhD level, Evening Standard, The Observer and The Economist, Newsweek); regional undertaken each Wednesday in publishing, broadcasting, music economists in a range of sectors, this course is an ideal platform from The Sunday Times. press (London Evening Standard, City terms one and two and owe a lot to management, arts administration including financial trading and risk which to progress, particularly in AM, Manchester Evening News) and City’s industry contacts. Students go and further musical study at MPhil assessment, consumer psychology cognitive and social neuroscience. Find out more international newspapers (The Daily to one company or broadcaster and or PhD level. They include Oscar- and marketing, consulting and public policy. The research focus of The knowledge and skills students city.ac.uk/amjo Star, Beirut; South China Morning build relationships with employers. winning composer Nico Casal, Post, Hong Kong). composer Javier Álvarez and film the course also allows graduates to acquire are sought after in many sound designer Chris Reading. succeed at PhD level in Economics sectors (neuro-marketing, media and Find out more or Psychology. the arts, business and education). Find out more city.ac.uk/atjo city.ac.uk/anjo Find out more Find out more city.ac.uk/amco Find out more city.ac.uk/sbec city.ac.uk/scsc

34 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 35 Research Sociology Methods

Counselling Counselling Organisational Research Methods Research Methods Criminology and Psychology Psychology Psychology with Psychology MSc Criminal Justice PGCert DPsych MSc MSc MSc School of ArtsSchool & Social Sciences of ArtsSchool & Social Sciences Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Part-time: one year Full-time: three years Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Part-time: two years The PGCert Counselling Psychology The Professional Doctorate in This course provides education in provides an excellent foundation Counselling Psychology is a This course incorporates: psychological research methods, The MSc Research Methods offers Understanding criminality and for students who wish to extend professional course approved by the organisational development and including research design, statistical theoretical and applied education crime control in the 21st century their knowledge and experience Health and Care Professions Council change; improving employees’ methods and relevant software. in research methods and analysis requires researchers and professionals prior to undertaking more advanced and accredited by the British wellbeing; occupational choice; It comprises seminars, lectures, for the social sciences. It is designed to think globally and work across professional training in counselling Psychological Society (BPS). coaching psychology; selection computing and statistics classes to provide students with an disciplines. This course enables psychology or related disciplines. The and assessment; mindfulness; and an individual research understanding and appreciation of students to develop the theoretical course gives students the opportunity Counselling Psychology at City has a leadership; learning and training. project/dissertation. qualitative and quantitative research understandings and methodological to learn about the interpersonal long-established tradition and was one This long-standing and award- methods over a range of disciplines. skills to navigate this ever-changing and therapeutic skills, which are of the first courses to be accredited by winning course provides students The course draws on other courses, The course consists of modules policy field. the foundation of the counselling the BPS in 1995. We have retained our with in-depth theoretical and research especially the MSc Behavioural from interdisciplinary core subjects, process and also provides a range accreditation since then, constantly knowledge in these and related Economics (particularly for department-specific elective modules The course develops students’ abilities of theoretical frameworks, linking keeping pace with developments areas. Students have opportunities generalised linear model training, and a dissertation comprising a piece to use criminological knowledge to psychological theory and counselling both nationally and internationally to develop a range of organisational undertaken using ‘R’ software), the of original empirical research. It analyse the problem of crime and technique and acting as a template and maintaining our reputation for consulting skills, such as managing MSc Clinical, Social and Cognitive equips students with real-world skills crime control strategies, equipping for model-based counselling practice. innovation and excellence. client relationships, facilitating Neuroscience (particularly for in collecting and analysing empirical them with the skills they require to Experiential learning and skills programming and computational become experts in their fields. Students learn to work with participative decision-making, data and reporting research findings. practice are central to this course. It negotiating access into organisations, modelling training, undertaken may also be of interest to healthcare individual adults and children, using Matlab software) and our MSc Research Methods is a School- The course is delivered by couples, families, groups and facilitating employee focus groups professionals, teachers, social and providing feedback. School-wide MSc Research Methods wide master’s course delivered by internationally recognised workers, managers and others who organisations with a wide range (particularly for qualitative academic staff with a diverse range criminologists who work closely wish to enhance their psychological of complex presenting issues The course covers the five knowledge methods training). of substantive research interests. with students throughout their knowledge and counselling skills both in short and long-term, areas for occupational psychology as Our staff are experts in a plethora studies. We have particular expertise and apply them within their single and multi-professional outlined by the British Psychological Optional modules introduce of methodologies, from personal in policing and surveillance studies, professional practice. contexts and through transferring Society. It is delivered by a dedicated psychological content with a less interviewing to large-scale survey victimology, feminist criminology, psychological skills to others in team of research-active and chartered methodological focus to provide research. youth cultural studies, penology, Career opportunities multidisciplinary teams. occupational psychologists. a broader context for the methods criminal justice policy, theoretical being taught. criminology and media criminology. The course is an excellent pathway Career opportunities Career opportunities Career opportunities to future careers. Many of our Career opportunities There is a high demand for Research Career opportunities graduates have been successful in This professional and academic course This course has high levels of Methods graduates and there are gaining places on related master’s enables students to work in a broad employability with many of our Possible career paths for graduates excellent employment opportunities Graduates pursue careers in criminal and doctoral-level courses in areas range of settings, including the NHS, students securing roles within the of this course include academic to work in several sectors, including justice and related professions, including counselling psychology, forensic, third sector (voluntary), field or with public and private sector research (usually following a PhD) academic research, central and local both nationally and internationally. child and adolescent psychology, industry, government, private organisations including BIS, HSBC, or work involving central and local government agencies, public health, These include careers in the police, counselling and psychotherapy. practice, academia and research. KPMG and the Ministry of Defence, government agencies, public health, the voluntary sector, market and the prison service, probation or Recent graduate job titles include large and small occupational/ the voluntary sector, market/media media research. The course is also one of the many criminal justice Consultant Psychologist, Counselling research or management consultancy. charities based in London. Others Find out more business psychology consultancies an ideal foundation for students who Psychologist, High Intensity and human resources departments. wish to pursue doctoral research in pursue careers in research, policy city.ac.uk/scpg Therapist, Lecturer and Practitioner The high-quality research focus Find out more social sciences. development, campaigning Psychologist. means some graduates also go on city.ac.uk/srwp or advocacy work. to complete PhDs. Find out more Find out more Whatever a student’s career choice, city.ac.uk/srme the course team will work with them city.ac.uk/scpd Find out more to develop the specialist skills that city.ac.uk/sopy they require.

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36 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 37 Culture, Policy and Global Creative International Media and Management Industries Communications Communications MA MA and Development MA MA School of ArtsSchool & Social Sciences of ArtsSchool & Social Sciences Duration Duration Duration Duration Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Part-time: two years

With MA Culture, Policy and This course examines the creative Communication is integral to This course provides a thorough Management, students can shape industries and their interface with development programmes. At a grounding in the social and political the cultural and creative sector and the wider economy at a global time when ideas about freedom of context of communications sociology gain experience inside leading arts scale. Cultural goods and ideas are expression, democracy, human rights and an advanced understanding of organisations (London-based increasingly produced and consumed and access to natural and material recent developments and current or international). transnationally; however, global resources guide development debates in media and communications. cultural trade flows are uneven and projects across the world, the The methodological approaches We have several elective modules to this has consequences for local and question about the role of media and and research tools learned can be choose from, meaning students can national development. Moreover, communications for social change professionally applied to working customise their learning so they can cultural assets are carriers of becomes ever more pertinent. in the field. These are employed in become a competent professional meaning and their global circulation students’ individual research projects. ready to start, continue or change impacts those who consume them, The MA International their career. On completion of the affecting identities and reproducing Communications and Development The extensive range of elective course, students are able to evaluate social and economic inequalities. provides an interdisciplinary modules allows students to specialise and integrate the theories and framework to understand and their degree to their own area of practices of culture, policy Taught by world experts in the critically assess the role of interest and view broader social issues and management. field, the programme offers a communications for and in through the lens of communications. unique opportunity for students development projects. The student experience runs through to analyse the economic, social Students receive a top-class education everything we do on the course. and cultural aspects of the Development is taken as a contested and our research-led learning in The curriculum was developed in contemporary transformation of concept that translates into courses communications and sociology keeps consultation with senior creative culture and how they relate to the for advocating democratic forms students’ degrees contemporary. industry figures so students’ learning global and the local: how is culture of participation, policy initiatives is attuned to the latest insights from produced and re-produced? What and training activities in media and Career opportunities the sector. are the mechanisms of the global communications sectors in different The course has an outstanding record cultural ecosystems and markets? geographical regions. for graduate employability. Career opportunities What are their consequences? Launched in 1974, this pioneering Career opportunities Graduates have entered a wide course has over 3,000 alumni The course prepares students to Graduates have entered a wide variety variety of careers. Recent job titles including key figures such as Tate work professionally or as academics of careers in broadcasting, press include Marketing Manager, Business Britain Director Alex Farquharson in the expanding cultural and telecommunications networks, Development and Relationship and UN World Tourism Organisation sphere worldwide. NGOs, the development sector and Manager, Communication and Culture Adviser Jin Yung Woo. consultancies, advertising, marketing, Advocacy Officer, HR Advisor and Career opportunities politics, journalism, PR, media Communications Consultant. Our graduates find employment Graduates are qualified to work in management and regulatory agencies. in creative industries globally, national and international institutions. Find out more from orchestras to film, fashion, Career paths include: government city.ac.uk/smco events or museums; from marketing Find out more administration, policy, advocacy, city.ac.uk/sicd to policy or management. Examples development, mega events (Olympics, include Ullens Art Centre, Beijing; Capital/City of Culture legacy projects), Royal Opera, London; and Christian academia or doctoral study. Dior, Paris. Find out more Find out more city.ac.uk/sgci city.ac.uk/scpm

38 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 39 Sir John Cass Business School has been at the forefront of business Masterʼs courses Summer School education for over 50 years. Located in the heart of one of the world’s Actuarial Management MSc 42 Cass London Summer School 51 leading financial centres, Cass is part of an elite group of business Actuarial Science MSc 42 Charities courses Banking and International Finance MSc 42 schools to have been awarded triple accreditation by the Association Charity Accounting and Financial Management Business Analytics MSc 43 PGDip/MSc 51 to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the Association of Corporate Finance MSc 43 Charity Marketing and Fundraising PGDip/MSc 52 MBAs (AMBA) and the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS). Energy, Trade and Finance MSc 43 Grantmaking, Philanthropy and Social Investment Entrepreneurship MSc 44 PGCert/PGDip/MSc 52 Executive Master’s in Leadership MSc 44 NGO Management PGDip/MSc 52 Executive Master’s in Medical Leadership MSc 44 Voluntary Sector Management PGDip/MSc 53 Finance MSc 46 MBA Financial Mathematics MSc 46 Full-time MBA 53 Global Finance MSc 46 Executive MBA 53 Global Supply Chain Management MSc 47 Cass Modular Executive MBA 54 Innovation, Creativity and Leadership MA/MSc/MInnov 47 Executive MBA in Dubai 54 Insurance and Risk Management MSc 47 Global MBA 54 International Accounting and Finance MSc 48 International Business MSc 48 Business Investment Management MSc 48 Management MSc 49 Marketing Strategy and Innovation MSc 49 Mathematical Trading and Finance MSc 49 Quantitative Finance MSc 50 Real Estate MSc 50 School Real Estate Investment MSc 50 Academic staff at Cass are world- The Faculty of Actuarial Science The master’s, MBA and PhD courses Shipping, Trade and Finance MSc 51 leading experts in their fields of and Insurance, one of the leading offered at Cass are consistently academic and applied research: departments of its kind, undertakes ranked among the best in the UK and they are highly sought after by theoretical and applied research into the world. Courses are academically companies, governments and pensions, life and general insurance rigorous and characterised by a international bodies for their and healthcare. real-world approach that ensures specialist knowledge. Their work graduates are prepared for top- shapes policy, debate and business The last Research Excellence flight careers in their chosen fields, practice at the highest levels. The Framework (REF) rated 84 per cent whether in business, finance, Faculty of Finance at Cass is one of the research submitted by Cass entrepreneurship or academia. Each of the largest and most respected as within the top two categories of year, around 2,000 students from all in the world and is renowned for world-leading (4*) or internationally over the world choose Cass for their its expertise in accounting, asset excellent (3*). This placed Cass in postgraduate courses, creating a pricing, banking, corporate finance, the top six in the UK. The outcome of uniquely international environment financial markets and regulation, this independent review highlights in which to study, socialise and international finance and shipping the world-class quality of Cass build networks that remain in place finance. Academic staff in the research and recognises the impact beyond graduation. Faculty of Management specialise it has on business, the professions in all areas of management studies, and policy-makers. Postgraduate Cass blends academic excellence including strategy, entrepreneurship, students at Cass benefit from the with extraordinary experiences corporate social responsibility, instruction and supervision of these and career progression to foster marketing, information management, pre-eminent academics, who make lifelong learning. organisational behaviour and human great contributions in advancing resource management. their specialist fields.

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4340 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 41 Masterʼs courses

Actuarial Actuarial Banking and Business Analytics Corporate Finance Energy, Trade Management Science International MSc MSc and Finance Cass Business School MSc MSc Finance MSc Cass Business School MSc

Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Part-time: two years An actuary is a professional This course reflects the wide and The MSc Business Analytics The MSc Corporate Finance is an This course offers a unique approach This course is aimed at those who who applies mathematical and sophisticated range of activities combines academic rigour with exciting and hands-on course to global business. Students are wish to study material relevant to statistical techniques to financial within banking, a sector which has authentic experience, supporting that develops students’ financial equipped with key skills in the areas the examinations of the Institute problems. This course is aimed experienced dramatic development the career progression of students expertise in the area of corporate of energy and commodity economics, and Faculty of Actuaries. at highly numerate students and change in recent years. aiming to generate and capture finance, which is one of the largest, trading, transportation, finance and who wish to pursue actuarial greater competitiveness most popular and vibrant sectors of risk management. It has been designed to meet the careers in insurance, pensions, The MSc Banking and International in data-driven businesses. financial services. needs of actuarial employers and finance, investment, financial Finance is designed to equip students The MSc Energy, Trade and Finance employers from other sectors risk management, consultancy for a wide range of careers in the Essential analytical skills and The course equips students with was launched in September 2003 and requiring financial risk managers. and related areas. This fast-track banking and international business knowledge are sought to the knowledge to successfully was the culmination of talks between Emphasis is placed on skills in the study route allows students to gain finance sector. improve the operational efficiency, navigate the rapidly changing global Charles Daly (Chairman and CEO at areas of life and non-life insurance, professional qualifications before business performance and strategic landscape of corporate finance. It Channoil Consulting) and Cass about pensions, finance and investment. embarking upon their careers. Around 35 nationalities are management of an organisation. focuses on topics such as: how firms the need to provide postgraduate represented in a typical intake, This course aims to bridge the gap make investment decisions, what education to top-quality recent The course is accredited by the The course is also aimed at actuarial with the global dimension between the computing function sources of financing are available graduates interested in a career in the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, trainees and associates. Up to eight of the course further enhanced and business leaders. to businesses, how to create value energy and commodities sector and enabling students to study the key exemptions from core technical by the diverse backgrounds of the through mergers and acquisitions to young professionals who wanted to areas of actuarial practice and gain subjects can be gained from the permanent and visiting academic The main purpose of the course and IPOs, investment banking consolidate their industry experience exemptions from some subjects of the current system of professional faculty. This international is to develop a comprehensive set services, valuation, stock market with a focused and professional Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. examinations of the Institute and perspective adds range and depth of skills and encourage attributes performance and more. master’s qualification. Faculty of Actuaries. This is just over to the student experience, while that are essential to becoming a Career opportunities half the examinations required for generating worldwide networking successful business analyst. Besides The course is a Chartered Financial The course is validated by the Energy There is a strong demand for Fellowship saving several years opportunities after graduation. promoting effective and persuasive Analyst Institute (CFA) Partner Institute and students can become graduates educated to a postgraduate of study. communication, the module Programme and accredited by the members after graduating. The course is a Chartered leaders draw attention to ethics- Chartered Institute of Management degree level in Actuarial Financial Analyst Institute Management and members of the Career opportunities related issues, which are key to Accountants (CIMA) and the Career opportunities (CFA) Partner Programme. responsible leadership. Association of Chartered Certified actuarial profession are among The actuarial profession is a small Graduates from MSc Energy, Trade Accountants (ACCA). the highest paid in the UK. They but highly respected body whose Career opportunities and Finance hold key positions work in fields including insurance, Career opportunities and have eminent careers in over members are among the highest Career opportunities consulting, government, banking paid in the UK. Cass graduates work Graduates move into a very wide Graduates are trained to participate 70 countries in fields such as and investment and academia. for a range of employers, including range of careers in banks, as portfolio in the strategic management process, Graduates move into a diverse commercial banking, commodity insurance companies, investment managers, in finance departments of improve financial performance range of financial sector careers, trading, government, investment Recent graduates have gone on and retail banks, actuarial industrial and service companies, as and advise on designing effective including top finance and managerial banking, law, logistics management, to work at Aon Hewitt, Barnett consultancies and government and consultants, in central banks and as measures of organisational positions at family and global firms, management consultancy, Waddingham, Reliance General non-government organisations. auditors in multinational financial performance, for which evidence- investment banking, commercial manufacturing, shipping, finance, Insurance and Willis Towers Watson. organisations. based data is a strategic asset in the banking, securities sales and trading, shipping operations, stockbroking Recent graduates have gone on to decision-making process. The aim hedge funds, private banking, asset and university research and teaching. Recent graduates have gone on to work Find out more work at Aon Hewitt, ICBC Standard is to provide a foundation for those management, credit products, at BNP Paribas, Citibank, EY, Grant Recent graduates have gone on to city.ac.uk/cacm Bank, PwC, Royal London Group who will determine the scope and financial and credit risk management and Zurich. Thornton International Ltd, Goldman direction of data analytics research and consultancy. work at BearingPoint, Cargill, Gerald Sachs and KPMG. within an organisation. UK Ltd, Macquarie, Mercuria Energy Recent graduates have gone on to Group, Shell and Wood Mackenzie. Find out more Find out more work at Accenture, Arma Partners, city.ac.uk/cacs Find out more Bloomberg, EY, Macquarie, Nomura city.ac.uk/cbif city.ac.uk/buan Find out more Holdings, UniCredit and Vodafone. city.ac.uk/cetf Find out more city.ac.uk/ccof

42 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 43 “The MSc Business Analytics has given me the tools Entrepreneurship Executive Master’s Executive Master’s MSc in Leadership in Medical Leadership to become data-savvy through the application of Cass Business School MSc MSc statistical learning methods and the use of a palate of Cass Business School visualisation techniques. Studying at Cass has opened

Duration Duration Duration doors for me into the world of data science and I am Full-time: one year Part-time: two years Part-time: two years proud to have contributed to the successful delivery of Created and delivered by leading This course is designed for aspiring Grounded in research that shows academics and entrepreneurs, this leaders and managers with a good medical leadership improves a research project at the Strategy Insight Lab.” degree equips aspiring entrepreneurs first degree or a relevant professional healthcare system performance, with the toolkit and experience qualification and at least three to five this advanced leadership degree is necessary to successfully launch years’ work experience in a senior distinct in targeting doctors. It aims Nikita Polukeev new ventures and make a significant role. It is delivered in a flexible, to develop medical leaders who can MSc Business Analytics impact in their sector. block-taught format, integrating both transform healthcare systems in campus and work-based learning. ways that ultimately help people The course is equally valuable for to live longer, healthier lives. professionals who wish to take their Participants learn how to think and career to the next level by learning act strategically in line with their A key feature of the course is its how to be more entrepreneurial and organisation’s objectives, helping dual focus on personal development creative within a large corporation. them to make a real impact. and research-based conceptual knowledge. It combines master’s Can entrepreneurship be taught? The first year covers a general level learning about people, Yes. Just as we can educate people management route with modules innovation and change in healthcare to become doctors, engineers and such as accounting, leadership and with students’ own development lawyers, we can train people to marketing strategy. In the second as effective leaders in a medical become entrepreneurs. year, students can choose to follow a environment, drawing on Cass’s voluntary sector management route world-class research capabilities and Throughout the course, students with modules specifically tailored to experience of executive development. are encouraged to develop an the non-profit sector. attitude towards learning from This course enables students to meet failure and taking calculated risks. Please note that this course is the Faculty of Medical Leadership We cover challenges and risks that only available for study using and Management’s standards for entrepreneurs face and ways apprenticeship levy funding. medical professionals. The course is to recover from failure. available under the apprenticeship Career opportunities levy funding scheme. Career opportunities This course represents an opportunity Depending on the student’s sphere for career development and Career opportunities of interest and expertise, potential progression to aspiring leaders within Outstanding doctors with leadership opportunities after graduation include their organisation in a range skills are sought after in many sectors continuing as the founder or CEO of different sectors. globally. These include healthcare of the venture created during their providers, pharmaceuticals, NGOs, studies. This may be in a range of The voluntary sector route in the social and private enterprises, sectors including IT and e-commerce, second year offers a development insurance, medical devices, banking and finance, consulting, opportunity for staff in the biotechnologies, health policy professional services, engineering, charity sector. and regulatory organisations and manufacturing and retail. Successful candidates will also be management consultancy firms. Clinical consultants may migrate into Recent graduates have gone on to eligible for professional accreditation from either the Chartered Management senior leadership positions, GPs may work at China Merchants Bank, EY, progress to become practice partners Hays, Prism Sport & Entertainment Institute or the Institute of Leadership and Management. and junior doctors will be primed and Square. for management.

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44 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 45 Finance Financial Global Finance Global Supply Innovation, Insurance and Risk MSc Mathematics MSc Chain Management Creativity and Management Cass Business School MSc MSc Leadership MSc Cass Business School MA/MSc/MInnov

Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Online, part-time: two years Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Part-time: 28 months Part-time: two years Highly ranked by the Financial This course concentrates on the At Cass, we are committed to offering This course combines a 360-degree Times, this MSc Finance from Cass mathematical and financial theory high-quality courses to the widest perspective of global supply chains, This dynamic course focuses on This course explores the world of has the potential to open up global required to develop new products possible audience, including based on the most recent academic developing professional skills that risk and the growing relationship career opportunities for flexible, for hedging and risk management. students who prefer not to relocate research and examples of innovative enable students to lead change between insurance, risk management high-calibre students. This is because It provides the tools necessary to to London to continue their studies. current business practices, with and deliver innovation within and financial services. Cass is among the world’s most undertake high-quality research in Choosing the online MSc Global strategic and analytical tools to their organisation. It is about more respected business schools, meeting financial and academic institutions. Finance allows students to continue manage them. than simply learning how to be Contributions from leading the needs of employers with a unique working and experience the benefits creative, graduates emerge with the practitioners within London’s blend of theory and practice. Students acquire an in-depth of a Cass master’s, combined with The course is designed to produce entrepreneurial skills needed to financial district enhance the course’s knowledge and understanding of the convenience and flexibility of confident professionals who have the turn ideas into action. strong professional orientation. The course is designed to fit financial mathematics. This includes studying online from home or on the knowledge and skills to tackle supply Students graduate with a rounded students’ career aspirations with financial theory and stochastics move anywhere in the world. chain opportunities and challenges. The course equips students with the skill base, solidly positioned to module content regularly modified along with probability theory and It explores supply chain management tools and creative leadership skills build a successful career in an and refined to reflect the most up-to- programming. These are then applied Developing students’ financial topics within all contexts of decision- to successfully manage innovation exciting and complex business date industry practices. Flexibility for asset pricing, interest rates expertise to the highest level, the making, including procurement, projects while fast-tracking their world. For applicants with a is built into the course through a modelling and risk management. course provides a comprehensive operations, logistics, corporate social careers. They develop a wide range Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) comprehensive elective offering, grasp of the principles and theories responsibility, finance, analytics of skills in the fields of creativity and Advanced Diploma, there is a fast- including several optional overseas Graduates are suited for jobs of finance and their application and consulting skills. Applying innovation, acquiring techniques track January start. electives in locations such as New in investment houses involved to real-life corporate situations. It theory through various learning that they can use in their professional York, Singapore and Dubai. in derivatives valuation and is set in the context of the wider tools and live cases enables students and personal lives to deliver truly The course equips students with portfolio management or research global economic environment and to understand the complexity of original solutions. Students also the skills necessary to succeed as It equips students with a broad departments within banks and encourages students to critically managing global supply chains and gain entrepreneurial knowledge risk managers, financial advisors, portfolio of skills relevant to consultancy firms. They are also analyse contemporary theories develop necessary critical thinking and skills so that they can harness consultants, underwriters, financial investment and risk management equipped for careers involving and real-world case studies. and communication skills. the creativity of their colleagues, analysts and insurance analysts. business and corporate finance. the development of pricing and stakeholders and clients within and Students are exposed to material risk management models and Career opportunities Career opportunities outside their organisations. Career opportunities on hedge fund strategies and their testing, as risk analysts or The world of international finance The aim of this course is to develop Graduates enjoy senior positions performance and taught to understand quantitative analysts. with its many career opportunities graduates with strong strategic Career opportunities across the world in businesses, corporations’ capital structure and and continuous demand for sharper, supply chain knowledge and including international insurance, dividend payment decisions. Career opportunities Innovation is key to companies brighter and more adaptable advanced analytical and consulting competing in today’s unpredictable reinsurance and insurance broking Alumni are typically working in one firms, Lloyd’s of London, leading Career opportunities employees, is an attractive choice skills. For this reason, students can economic climate. The course has of two fields: derivatives valuation for many top-calibre candidates. continue their careers in a diverse set been designed for professionals investment and retail banks, leading Our graduates move into roles and portfolio management within The course has the potential to of sectors from retail to consulting to who are keen to learn how to manage accountancy firms, management including financial analysis, risk investment houses or research open up global career opportunities production to logistics. innovation and explore the potential consultancies, risk management management and consultancy departments within banks and for students in a rapidly changing unlocked by enabling a creative departments of major corporations within fields such as corporate consultancy firms. and ever more complex business Recent graduates have gone on to climate within their organisation. and regulatory authorities. finance, fund management and environment, equipping them work at AB InBev, Bosch, Danone Recent graduates have gone on Our current students come from a banking. Our proximity to London’s with a combination of high-level Waters China, KPMG, Innocent wide range of backgrounds including Recent graduates have gone on financial district provides students to work at Npower, PwC, SS&C interpersonal skills, in-depth Drinks and SkylogistiX. to work at Barbican Insurance, Technologies and Total UK Ltd. IT, marketing, hotel management, with unparalleled opportunities knowledge and analytical skills. the public sector and consultancy. Guy Carpenter and Company, JLT for networking. Find out more Specialty Limited and Peninsula Find out more Underwriting Ltd. Find out more city.ac.uk/cgsc Find out more Recent graduates have gone on to city.ac.uk/cfma work at China Merchants Bank, city.ac.uk/cgfi city.ac.uk/cicl Find out more Dimensional Fund Advisors, Morningstar, Rolls Royce, Société city.ac.uk/cirm Générale and State Street Corporation.

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46 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 47 International International Investment Management Marketing Strategy Mathematical Accounting Business Management MSc and Innovation Trading and Cass Business School and Finance MSc MSc MSc Finance Cass Business School MSc MSc

Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year

The MSc International Accounting The course equips students with The MSc Investment Management This course is academically rigorous This course equips students with the This course offers students who and Finance prepares students for relevant tools for international is founded on three principles: and professionally orientated, giving analytical capabilities needed to deal already have good mathematical leading roles in the global investment business career success by offering academic rigour, relevant knowledge graduates the opportunity to develop with complex marketing issues. skills a solid foundation in financial community and within commercial specialisations in core functional and a professional orientation. knowledge and skills in key areas of mathematical theory and practice. entities. It provides students with areas of their choice. The course Students acquire a sound knowledge modern management. The MSc Marketing Strategy and combined expertise in accounting has a strong experiential element, of the foundations that underpin Innovation also instils essential It combines academic rigour with and corporate finance. including study tours abroad. modern investment and risk It is based on an MBA-style curriculum ‘soft’ skills – including creativity, strong professional application. This management techniques. and is academically demanding initiative, persistence, team-working, enables students to participate fully Starting with basic principles of Students will also appreciate the without neglecting the applied, communication and leadership in the ever-changing derivatives accounting and finance, students social impact that business has in These principles are applied in real-world aspects of management required to influence people market, where financial innovation learn how to assess performance society. This is especially pertinent practice through case studies education. Students come from a and organisations. and globalisation have created new and conduct valuations of firms in the backdrop of the current and the use of online databases range of backgrounds to experience investment opportunities, risks using complex financial accounting anti-globalisation drivers and the such as Bloomberg and portfolio the unique Cass environment of Providing an academically rigorous and instruments. information. In addition, the course accelerating digital transformation management simulation exercises. learning, team-work and collaboration. and professionally relevant provides insights into company of business. The professionally orientated aspect education, this course combines Students acquire a sound knowledge strategies and how to manage cost of the course is delivered by academics The course equips students with sound theoretical foundations in of mathematical finance, stochastic systems. Students also acquire The course offers core modules in with significant industry experience the foundations of business marketing and innovation with a calculus, derivatives valuation, the research skills necessary to term one and options to customise the and leading industry practitioners, management, knowledge of the deeper examination of key topics financial engineering, quantitative undertake valuation. intellectual journey in terms two and providing a vital link between theory most advanced tools and theories such as brand management, digital risk modelling, numerical methods three. In term three, students have a and practice. and outstanding professional skills. marketing and consumer behaviour. and econometrics. There is a wide range of elective large range of international electives These often come directly from the modules, including the option to choose from and an internationally The course is a Chartered Financial research carried out by Cass’s world- Crucially, the course enables Career opportunities students to harness the latest digital of studying for a Certificate in focused business research project. Analyst Institute Programme Partner renowned faculty. This course equips students with all technology in the pursuit of effective International Financial Reporting and is accredited by the Chartered the skills required in front and middle Students have the option of solutions. A strong professional Standards issued by the Institute of Career opportunities Institute for Securities & Investment, office roles. Asset management, risk an international trip/business dimension includes opportunities Chartered Accountants in England Recent Cass business graduates the Chartered Insurance Institute management and analyst roles are plan competition and a range of to tackle real-world marketing and Wales. have found roles in a variety of and the Chartered Alternative well suited. Some students also take international electives. problems, enter competitions and industries including creative, high Investment Analyst Association. on trading positions. the possibility to undertake an Career opportunities technology, hospitality, finance, fast- Career opportunities international trip. Graduates move into a diverse moving consumer goods, media and Career opportunities Recent graduates have gone on to Graduates move into a diverse range work at Crédit Agricole, Dromeus range of careers in the financial entertainment, luxury goods and Graduates work as traders, fund This course comprises core modules of careers including consulting, Capital Management (UK), HSBC, sector, particularly roles as analysts real estate. managers, risk managers, in terms one and two followed by marketing, advertising, luxury Global Market Solutions and in accounting firms, corporate security analysts, brokers and two core modules and a business goods, wealth management, working VTB Capital. finance, auditing, regulatory bodies corporate treasurers. research project or three electives Find out more for a family business or setting up and consultancies. city.ac.uk/inbu in term three. Recent graduates have gone on their own business. Find out more Recent graduates have gone on to to work at Barclays, Citi, Grant Career opportunities city.ac.uk/cmtf work at Asia View Capital, EY, HSBC, Thornton, Invesco PowerShares, Recent graduates have gone on to KPMG, Moody’s Investors Service, Liberty Specialty Markets and Terra work at Arthur D Little, Bloomberg, Recent graduates have gone on to PwC and SWS Research. Capital Advisory. Capgemini Consulting, GEP, work at Intercontinental Hotels Marriott Hotels International Group, Lazada Group, LOKimedia, and Morgan Stanley. Simon-Kucher & Partners and Sky. Find out more Find out more city.ac.uk/ciaf city.ac.uk/cinm Find out more Find out more city.ac.uk/cman city.ac.uk/cmsi

48 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 49 Summer Charities School courses

Quantitative Real Estate Real Estate Shipping, Trade Cass London Charity Accounting Finance MSc Investment and Finance Summer School and Financial Cass Business School MSc MSc MSc Module credit Management Cass Business School PGDip/MSc

Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Three weeks Postgraduate Diploma (Exemption route, April intake only) This course is designed to give Facilitating entry into a wide variety Aimed at students wishing to This course offers a unique approach The Cass Summer School offers Part-time: nine months students a sound understanding of the of career paths, this course is ideal enter or advance their careers in to global business. Students are insights into the key business quantitative aspects of finance used for students who wish to develop a the fields of real estate investment equipped with key skills in the areas disciplines of finance, accounting or Postgraduate Diploma both by practitioners and academics. career in the real estate industry but management, real estate finance and of shipping, ship finance, commodity shipping and is based in our modern Part-time: one year may be unsure of the direction they the securitised real estate markets, finance, logistics and supply chain postgraduate facility located at the MSc conversion It focuses on topics such as wish to take. this course combines the rigour of a management, commodity trade, crossroads of the City of London and Part-time: six to eight months econometrics, forecasting and mainstream finance course with the financial and commodity risk Tech City. It is enriched by a social risk modelling and covers financial It is designed to provide a broad direct application of financial modelling and management. programme and networking events, This is one of five postgraduate instruments and financial background in real estate investment, theory and techniques in a real giving students the chance to explore courses offered in the Charities theory from a mathematical and appraisal and development with It is offered under the auspices of estate context. this great city. master’s programme, which covers professional point of view. It the core modules encompassing a the Costas Grammenos Centre for a unique breadth of specialist areas provides students with knowledge broad range of areas in real estate, The course is designed to provide Shipping, Trade and Finance at For ambitious students, enrolling primarily for those working within of computer software and including real estate finance, students with both the theoretical Cass, which was established in 1983, in summer school is becoming an the sector. This course aims to equip programming languages, such valuation, development, market and professional skills they will introducing a unique, integrated increasingly popular way to expand students with knowledge of specialist as Matlab, alongside an introduction analysis and economics. need to embark on a fulfilling career approach to global business. their experience, enhance their charity finance issues, including tax, to stochastics. in real estate finance and investment qualifications or test out life at a SORP and distinctive financial The course is accredited by the Royal in the private or public sectors. It is Recognised internationally for its business school. management practice. Career opportunities Institution of Chartered Surveyors tailored for students with relevant educational excellence, the Centre (RICS) and enables graduates to begin demonstrates its commitment to the The Cass Summer School gives Students from this course are well undergraduate degrees or The two-year, part-time structure the RICS Assessment of Professional global business community and to its students from around the globe the suited for many roles in the financial work experience and strong allows students the flexibility of Competence qualification. students by organising conferences, chance to study while making the industry requiring extensive and quantitative skills. choosing the level of qualification. symposia and seminars featuring most of what London has to offer. in-depth market analysis or for Career opportunities This course is accredited by the Royal leading figures in commerce, a career in asset management, Attendance is required on a set Institution of Chartered Surveyors finance, industry, government It is open to current undergraduates, including hedge funds. Graduates Alumni have gone on to senior roles in Friday and Saturday per month, (RICS) and enables graduates to begin and international organisations. recent graduates and postgraduates are also equipped to continue their a range of real estate and consultancy with additional time for action the RICS Assessment of Professional of any discipline who want to gain postgraduate studies with a PhD in businesses and financial institutions. learning sets and the assessments Competence (APC) qualification. The course is validated by the Institute an introduction to business or any area of quantitative finance. completed by examination. Recent graduates have gone on to of Chartered Shipbrokers. Students financial concepts. successful in certain modules on the Recent graduates have gone on to work at BNP Paribas Real Estate, Career opportunities On successful completion of the course may apply for exemption from work at Deloitte, Fitch Ratings, Green Cushman & Wakefield, Eastdil Alumni have gone on to senior roles in Find out more relevant modules students are examinations of the Institute. Street Advisors, INTL FCStone and Secured, Langham Properties, a range of property management and city.ac.uk/clss eligible for the ICAEW Diploma Knight Frank and Savills. in Charity Accounting. Petroineos Trading Ltd. consultancy businesses and financial Career opportunities institutions. The course offers a clear Find out more route for entry to the Investment Graduates go on to work within the Career opportunities Find out more banking, investment and shipping city.ac.uk/cquf city.ac.uk/cres Property Forum in the UK. Students who apply for the courses industries and are employed in a in the Charities master’s programme Recent graduates have gone on to range of different roles, including are already working in the sector or work at Castelar Corporate Finance, shipbroking, chartering and in a related role in the commercial Knight Frank, Mace, Strettons and operation and marine insurance. sector. Others have gained significant Resolute Asset Management. Many also work in financial services. experience as volunteers. Our students undertake this course to Recent graduates have gone on to gain a recognised, sector-specific Find out more work at Barry Rogliano Salles, Gerald qualification, formalise their city.ac.uk/crei Group, Moore Stephens, Petronas, experience or prepare for a more Trafigura and Zodiac Maritime Ltd. senior role in their organisation.

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50 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 51 MBA

Charity Marketing Grantmaking, NGO Management Voluntary Sector Full-time MBA Executive MBA and Fundraising Philanthropy and PGDip/MSc Management MBA MBA Cass Business School PGDip/MSc Social Investment PGDip/MSc Cass Business School PGCert/PGDip/MSc

Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Postgraduate Diploma Postgraduate Certificate Postgraduate Diploma Postgraduate Diploma Full-time: one year Part-time: two years Part-time: one year (April intake only) Part-time: one year Part-time: one year Part-time: six months The Full-time MBA is an intensive The Executive MBA is one of the MSc conversion MSc conversion MSc conversion 12-month journey transforming top ranked courses of its kind in Part-time: six to eight months Postgraduate Diploma Part-time: six to eight months Part-time: six to eight months the way students approach Europe. It offers academic excellence Part-time: one year business, preparing them for and outstanding connections with Marketing and fundraising within Students learn to recognise the This course has been designed as MSc conversion organisational leadership and international businesses. non-profit organisations are strategic challenges and dilemmas a complete development course for effective decision-making. particularly complex, especially as Part-time: six to eight months facing NGO managers, identify managers who want to gain a sound Delivered by a leading faculty, the there is an increasing demand for appropriate strategies to address understanding of the management Delivered by a leading international Executive MBA is offered over two This course is designed for those with more resources. them and gain an appreciation of of people and finances in the sector. faculty, the course provides an years with twice-weekly classes established careers in grantmaking the issues in managing change Theory and practice are interwoven immersive real-world learning during the evening. The structure and other forms of social funding, as This course aims to develop a broad, in NGOs. around subjects such as strategy, experience designed to develop delivers core business skills with the well as students looking to formalise informed and critical understanding marketing, fundraising, diversity, business knowledge. The course is flexibility to concentrate on electives and develop their knowledge and of the complex issues surrounding The course is accredited by AACBS finance and leadership. a shared journey, where students in a specialised area or pursue a skills in this area. fundraising, the use of marketing as and EQUIS and was developed in learn from and collaborate alongside broad set of business interests. a strategic tool and its importance to conjunction with Bond, the UK For those working in hospices, this Focusing on all types of giving and a talented international cohort of an organisation’s long-term planning membership body for NGOs working course provides a specialist option in The first year comprises core funding where the objective is social business professionals. and sustainable future. in international development. Hospice Leadership and Management modules, which provide students benefit, the course covers grants, in year two. This has been developed Throughout the year, students with the fundamentals of business loans, endowments, contracts and The courses in the Charities The courses in the Charities in conjunction with Hospice UK. encounter challenges and unique and management. During the service level agreements. programme cover a unique breadth programme cover a unique breadth learning experiences through core second year, students select elective of specialist areas primarily for those of specialist areas for those working The two-year, part-time structure The courses in the Charities modules, electives and projects. modules from a range of options and working within the sector. The course within the sector. The two-year, allows students the flexibility of International electives provide undertake a business mastery project. structure allows students the programme cover a unique breadth part-time structure allows students choosing the focus and level of specialist areas primarily for the opportunity to make powerful flexibility of choosing the focus and the flexibility of choosing the focus of qualification. Designed for ambitious working those working within the sector. connections, while putting the level of qualification. and level of qualification. professionals, the course focuses The course structure allows students theory learned in the lecture theatre Attendance is required on a set on real-world business. From day the flexibility of choosing the focus into practice. Attendance is required on a set Attendance is required on a set Friday and Saturday per month, with one, students encounter stimulating and level of qualification. Friday and Saturday per month, with Friday and Saturday per month, with additional time for action learning Career opportunities challenges and unique learning additional time for action learning additional time for action learning and the assessments completed experiences. What students learn Attendance is required on a set Cass’s employability experts help and the assessments completed and the assessments completed by examination. in the lecture theatre can be Friday and Saturday per month, with Cass MBA students to pursue and by examination. by examination. applied to their work environment additional time for action learning achieve their individual career Career opportunities almost immediately. Career opportunities and the assessments completed Career opportunities goals based on their desired career by examination. Students who apply for the courses in Students who apply for the courses in Students who apply for the courses in the Charities programme are already direction. Graduates of the MBA find Career opportunities career success across many different the Charities programme are already Career opportunities the Charities programme are already working in the sector or in a related Our Careers team offers professional working in the sector or in a related working in the sector or in a related role in the commercial sector. Others industries, while at the same time Students who apply for the courses gaining tools to start their own training and guidance in employability role in the commercial sector. Others role in the commercial sector. Others have gained significant experience as skills, enabling students to make have gained significant experience as in the Charities programme are have gained significant experience as volunteers. Our students undertake businesses. MBA graduates have already working in the sector or established successful careers within the most of their Executive MBA. volunteers. Our students undertake volunteers. Our students undertake this postgraduate degree in order to Graduates have been placed in senior this postgraduate degree in order to in a related role in the commercial this postgraduate degree in order to gain a recognised, sector-specific senior roles at Accenture, Capco, sector. Others have gained significant Framestore and Google. roles at Coller Capital, Smart Currency gain a recognised, sector-specific gain a recognised, sector-specific qualification, formalise their Exchange and Sylvania. qualification, formalise their experience as volunteers. Our students qualification, formalise their experience or prepare for a more experience or prepare for a more undertake this postgraduate degree experience or prepare for a more senior role in their organisation. 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52 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 53 “Studying at Cass means enrolling yourself Modular Executive MBA Global MBA Executive MBA in Dubai MBA into one of the busiest and most active cities Cass Business School MBA MBA in the world. You are presented with a number Cass Business School of opportunities and my advice is to embrace

Duration Duration Duration every single one.” Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Part-time: two years

The Modular Executive MBA is a The Cass Executive MBA in Dubai The Global MBA is designed for Sinthujon Murugavarothayan flexible course for busy professionals is designed to meet the needs of ambitious professionals and MSc Real Estate Investment seeking to maximise their leadership business executives in the Middle entrepreneurs who seek a world- potential and accelerate their East and surrounding regions. class business education but do careers. Taking place over one not have the ability to take time long weekend each month (Friday It is a two-year course delivered off from their hectic schedule and to Monday), students undergo a in a monthly block weekend present commitments. personal transition in the way they format (Thursday to Sunday) approach and think about business to accommodate busy working The course offers professionals the while studying alongside a group of professionals from the region. As flexibility to develop core business talented international peers. such, it has the advantage of allowing skills and learn on-demand. The students to work and study at the lectures are online via a mix of live The first year consists of core same time, enabling them to add to and pre-recorded sessions, enabling modules in the different business their qualifications without stepping students to learn at their own pace functions. In the second year, back from the business world. The and from anywhere in the world. Modular Executive MBA students Cass Executive MBA in Dubai offers Students can choose from an ever- are able to concentrate on electives the choice of building a general increasing list of advanced electives, in a specialised area or pursue a management MBA with several allowing them to build their own broad set of business interests. elective modules. specialisms. The content is blended with international electives and The added professional development Our world-leading Executive MBA three high-impact face-to-face is an important part of the course with course is ideal for anyone wishing weeks that include, among other coaching and workshop sessions for to develop a career in the Middle topics, leadership development students. A significant portion of the Eastern and North African region. and networking. class travel in from mainland Europe and further afield, lending to the Career opportunities Career opportunities diverse nature of the course. Throughout students’ time in Dubai as Cass MBA students have a stellar an Executive MBA student, they will Career opportunities record at developing in their chosen have access to several professional career paths – be it with their current Modular Executive MBA graduates development and Careers Service organisation, with a new one, or have gone on to work in senior workshops and continued support in pursuing an entrepreneurial executive roles at Barclays, GSK, from the Cass Careers team. opportunity. All students have access Landsec, SAP Solutions and to the full suite of career services, Tullow Oil. Our Careers team offers mentoring and advice from the professional training and guidance Cass faculty. Find out more in employability skills, enabling city.ac.uk/cmem students to make the most of their Executive MBA. Graduates have Find out more forged successful careers at Dell, city.ac.uk/gmba EY, Daman Investments and Lloyds Banking Group.

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54 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 55 The School of Health Sciences is a leading provider of postgraduate Graduate entry courses Language and Communication Science education in healthcare and health and social care policy and practice. Adult Nursing (Pre-Registration) MSc 58 Speech, Language and Communication (Advanced Practice Health and Social Care) Adult and Mental Health Nursing Postgraduate students work with academic staff who are clinical PGCert/PGDip/MSc 67 (Pre-Registration) MSc 58 Speech, Language and Communication Needs practitioners and engaged in interdisciplinary research across the Children’s Nursing (Pre-Registration) MSc 58 in Schools: Advanced Practice MSc 67 fields of nursing, midwifery, health policy, psychology, management, Mental Health Nursing (Pre-Registration) MSc 59 Midwifery optometry, public health, radiography and language and Midwifery RM/PGDip 59 Midwifery Primary Care (Practice Nursing) MSc 59 communication science. Our work is transforming the provision (Advanced Practice Health and Social Care) MSc 67 Primary Care (Practice Nursing) PGDip 60 Nursing of healthcare services in the UK and internationally. Public Health (School Nursing, Health Visiting and District Nursing) PGDip/MSc 60 Advanced Ophthalmic Nurse Practitioner (Advanced Practice Health and Social Care) MSc 68 Speech and Language Therapy MSc 60 Optometry Health Management, Policy, Psychology, Research and Public Health Clinical Optometry MSc 68

Clinical Research MRes 62 Radiography Food Policy MSc 62 Medical Ultrasound PGCert/PGDip/MSc 68 School of Health Management MSc 62 Radiography (Computed Tomography) Health Policy MSc 63 PGCert/PGDip/MSc 69 Health Psychology MSc 63 Radiography (Medical Magnetic Resonance) PGCert/PGDip/MSc 69 Leading Integrated Care MSc 63 Health Sciences Master in Public Health MPH 64 Interprofessional courses The School of Health Sciences offers The School delivers world-leading care of the elderly and long-term a variety of master’s courses providing research in healthcare that conditions such as dementia. Advanced Clinical Practice PGDip/MSc 64 an opportunity for graduates and impacts policy, service delivery, Research within the area of optometry Advanced Practice Health and Social Care MSc 64 healthcare practitioners to develop practice and education in the UK and visual science includes the early their skills and advance their careers. and overseas. detection of glaucoma and age-related Adult Mental Health We also offer research degrees at macular degeneration, occupational (Advanced Practice Health and Social Care) MSc 66 master’s and PhD levels, enabling The last Research Excellence vision assessment and ophthalmic Child and Adolescent Mental Health graduates to have a direct impact Framework rated 82 per cent of its public health and more fundamental (Advanced Practice Health and Social Care) MSc 66 on healthcare policy, services submitted research activity, 100 per studies in visual psychophysics, and practice. cent of its research environment and neurobiology and visual optics. Professional Practice PGCert 66 100 per cent of its research impact Within language and communication Graduate entry courses include case studies as either world-leading sciences staff have conducted pre-registration MSc degrees for (4*) or internationally excellent (3*). groundbreaking research into new students who have previously gained forms of therapy for people with an undergraduate degree, while the Research is often multidisciplinary aphasia, innovative collaborative Midwifery, Primary Care (Practice and involves partnerships with work in education with adolescents Nursing) and Public Health (School service users, NHS Trusts, local with language and communication Nursing, Health Visiting authorities, government bodies, difficulties and have developed New Image and District Nursing) courses non-governmental and third-sector language and communication allow registered nurses to gain organisations. Examples of the skills among deaf and hearing- a second registration. School’s research include nursing and impaired children. midwifery investigations into reform Scholarships for both home and in maternity and women’s health We are ranked first in London for international students are available and service user involvement in Nursing (The Times and Sunday Times for our master’s courses, including mental healthcare. In health services Good University Guide 2019) and first the Dean’s Scholarship for Academic research, academic staff are engaged in London for Medical Technology Excellence and the School’s in implementation research, studies (The Complete University Guide 2020). International Excellence Scholarship. looking at complex interventions, More details can be found on our clinical communication, website: www.city.ac.uk/health technology-enabled healthcare,

5659 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 57 Graduate entry courses

Adult Nursing Adult and Mental Children’s Nursing Mental Health Midwifery Primary Care (Pre-Registration)* Health Nursing (Pre-Registration)* Nursing RM/PGDip (Practice Nursing) MSc (Pre-Registration)* MSc (Pre-Registration)* MSc School of Health Sciences of Health School MSc MSc Sciences of Health School

Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Full-time: minimum two years Full-time: three years Full-time: minimum two years Full-time: minimum two years Full-time: 90 weeks Full-time: two years Part-time: three years This course is designed to enable This innovative course prepares Children’s nurses must be flexible This course is tailored to enable The Postgraduate Diploma in students to lead, manage and support students to lead, manage and support and resilient with excellent students to develop appropriate Midwifery offers a fast-track route to Primary care is experiencing an evidence-based care for people of all evidence-based care for people of all communication skills as they care assessment and decision-making a rewarding and challenging career unprecedented cycle of change. ages with predominantly physical ages with both physical and mental for children and young people with skills to meet the physical and mental as a midwife. The course prepares Developments in structure, health needs or disabilities using health needs. acute or long-term health problems, health needs of those diagnosed with qualified adult nurses who have at administration and roles all have appropriate assessment, diagnostic mental ill-health, special needs or mental health issues. There is a clear least six months’ practice experience implications for practitioners and decision-making skills. Their This is a combined course, where on terminal illness. This care extends focus on promoting social inclusion, to become qualified midwives. employed within this sector. Health focus is on managing the care of successful completion students are to supporting families and the wider human rights and recovery, while policies have led to the need for adults with particular attention to eligible to register with the Nursing community to promote health developing competence in a range Our staff are at the forefront of the increasing numbers of general practice the needs of an ageing population. and Midwifery Council as a registered and wellbeing. of psychological and latest healthcare developments nurses (GPN) to meet the service needs Students learn to practise nurse in the mental health and adult psychosocial interventions. through their academic, clinical and of clients. It is the diversity of services autonomously and demonstrate field of nursing. Students graduate Students combine theoretical study research activity. Students prepare now available within primary care that professional integrity by working with the skills and knowledge (50 per cent) with clinical experience Students learn skills to work in for the clinical environment in City’s has led to increasing educational and within recognised professional, needed to equip them to support the (50 per cent), working with diverse partnership with service users, state-of-the-art simulated ward, while training needs for the GPN. ethical and legal frameworks. delivery of quality healthcare in a populations in hospitals and their carers and families to support clinical placements take place in contemporary health service. community settings. and promote health and wellbeing. some of the busiest and most diverse By undertaking this course, students Adult nurses are able to work in They gain appropriate communication maternity units in the country. develop a systematic, inquiring partnership with service users, their Mental illness has a huge impact on Students learn through lectures, and self-awareness skills to develop and in-depth knowledge of their carers and families to support and the physical health of an individual. facilitated group work, simulated therapeutic relationships and to Students are allocated to a clinical discipline. They are able to develop promote health and wellbeing using People with a mental health condition practice, interprofessional learning promote person-centred care. area, where they take on a small competence and expertise for their excellent communication skills in are at a higher risk of experiencing and enquiry-based learning caseload of women and are practice, drawing on research and order to develop therapeutic and physical health problems, such as opportunities. Practice is assessed Students learn through lectures, supported by qualified mentors. contemporary sources of evidence to compassionate relationships and diabetes and heart conditions. In through partnership working between facilitated group work, inter- Clinical placements are based in all underpin their clinical engagement promote person-centred care. addition, people with long-term the student, the student supervisor, professional learning and enquiry- areas of maternity services, including as a GPN. physical health conditions are more the practice and academic assessors. based learning opportunities. community clinics, birthing centres, Career opportunities likely to suffer from mental health antenatal clinics, delivery suites, Career opportunities issues, particularly depression. Career opportunities Career opportunities antenatal/postnatal wards and Graduates have excellent career women’s homes. Completion of the MSc will enable prospects and frequently secure Graduates have excellent career Graduates have excellent career those GPNs to develop higher-order Career opportunities prospects in the NHS and prospects and frequently secure employment in hospital and Career opportunities critical skills, which will enhance community settings including: This course ideally positions independent sector hospitals and employment in the NHS and their clinical practice, underpinned Barts Health NHS Trust, Homerton students to pursue accelerated community settings. These include independent sector hospitals and Midwives enjoy excellent career by a strong evidence base. Upon University Hospital NHS Foundation career pathways and become Barts Health and North Middlesex community settings including the opportunities within the NHS and completion of the course GPNs Trust, University College London future leaders, clinical experts or University Hospital NHS Trusts, East London NHS Foundation private organisations both in the UK may choose to specialise in specific Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and researchers within the nursing Homerton University Hospital and Trust with its diverse areas of City and overseas. clinical areas, especially the care and the North Middlesex University NHS profession, across both adult Great Ormond Street Hospital for and Hackney, Newham and Tower management of long-term conditions. Trust. Nursing is a lifelong career and mental health fields of Children NHS Foundation Trusts. Hamlets. Nursing is a lifelong career Graduates can work within the NHS where students can develop their practice. Students will also be Children’s nursing is a lifelong career where students can develop their in the community, birth centres or Find out more skills and interests within a range given opportunities to prepare for and qualified children’s nurses can skills and interests within a range hospitals, or independently. of specialisms. interviews and develop Personal develop their skills and interests in a of specialisms. city.ac.uk/pcpn Development Plans during the course. range of specialisms. Students can upgrade the *At the time of printing (July 2019) Postgraduate Diploma to an MSc *At the time of printing (July 2019) following their final year. this course was subject to Nursing *At the time of printing (July 2019) *At the time of printing (July 2019) this course was subject to Nursing and Midwifery Council approval after this course was subject to Nursing this course was subject to Nursing and Midwifery Council approval after changes in national educational and Midwifery Council approval after and Midwifery Council approval after changes in national educational Find out more standards. Please visit our website for changes in national educational changes in national educational standards. Please visit our website for city.ac.uk/hmid up-to-date course information. standards. Please visit our website for standards. Please visit our website for the most up-to-date course information. the most up-to-date course information. up-to-date course information. 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58 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 59 “I completed my undergraduate degree at City Primary Care Public Health Speech and (Practice Nursing) (School Nursing, Language Therapy and I am back for a master’s in Speech and PGDip Health Visiting and MSc Language Therapy, which itself speaks of my School of Health Sciences of Health School District Nursing) experience here. The staff are supportive and Sciences of Health School PGDip/MSc they go the extra mile to ensure we are

Duration Duration Duration all doing well.” Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: two years Part-time: two years Part-time: two years This intensive course is suited to Fharia Choudhury The Postgraduate Diploma Primary The course enables registered nurses students who are committed to a MSc Speech and Language Therapy Care (Practice Nursing) has been and midwives to enhance their career in speech and language therapy developed for registered nurses who knowledge and broaden their skills to and who have already completed are currently on the Nursing and improve health within communities. an undergraduate degree. Students Midwifery Council register and learn a range of subjects that inform are employed as practice nurses School and district nurses and their understanding of typical with a 1st or 2:1 degree. This course health visitors all need the skills speech, language, communication equips students with contemporary and knowledge to effectively lead, and swallowing and of pathologies theoretical and evidence-based manage, plan and evaluate care. They in these areas. Students integrate skills and knowledge to enhance and lead a team and develop effective, theoretical and real-world knowledge develop their professional practice enduring relationships with groups, in considering approaches to the within the general practice setting. communities and individuals, work in assessment and management of clients partnership with many agencies and with communication and swallowing A unique feature of this course is deal with conflicting priorities and problems and in taking a holistic the option for students to exit with complex situations. approach to clients’ needs. Clinical a Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) placements within a range of settings Primary Care (Practice Nursing). The course meets these requirements constitute an integral part of the course. through practice and campus-based Students can also undertake a learning. Students undertake a public The MSc Speech and Language dissertation module to obtain their health trajectory which considers Therapy is accredited by the Royal MSc Primary Care (Practice Nursing), health attainment, promotion and College of Speech and Language after completion of the PGDip Primary illness prevention in the context of Therapists and approved by the Care (Practice Nursing) course. local, national and international Health and Care Professions public health and primary care Council (HCPC), which is the Career opportunities policy and practice. UK-wide regulatory body for Completion of this course enables healthcare professions. practice nurses to begin to develop Career opportunities higher-order critical and enhanced Completion of School Nursing Career opportunities clinical skills, which will enhance and Health Visiting routes make On successfully completing the MSc their clinical practice, underpinned graduates eligible to apply for Speech and Language Therapy, by a strong contemporary evidence second registration on the Specialist graduates are eligible to register with base. Furthermore, this will enable Community Public Health Nurse the HCPC and practise their profession those practice nurses who have part of the Nursing and Midwifery within the NHS or in a range of other completed the PGDip to negotiate a Council (NMC) register. Completion settings, including schools, hospitals, higher salary in their current post of the District Nursing route makes community clinics and charities. by extending their leadership and graduates eligible to apply for a Increasingly many graduates also work clinical skills. record of a Specialist Practice (District in the private sector as independent Nursing) qualification with the NMC. speech and language therapists. Find out more Successful students work for various city.ac.uk/hpcp healthcare providers; many later Find out more move into education, management and research. city.ac.uk/hslt

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60 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 64 Health Management, Policy, Psychology, Research and Public Health

Clinical Research Food Policy Health Health Policy Health Psychology Leading Integrated MRes MSc Management MSc MSc Care* MSc MSc School of Health Sciences of Health School Sciences of Health School

Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Part-time: two years

Knowledge and critical understanding Students gain in-depth knowledge The MSc Health Management has Health and healthcare have risen to The MSc Health Psychology is This course is aimed at of clinical research methods is of policies that affect activities a three-decade track record of the top of political agendas around a British Psychological Society- professionals from both clinical becoming increasingly important for all related to producing, processing, developing leaders in management the world. People are living longer accredited course and the first (e.g., medical, nursing and allied professionals in the health and social distributing, marketing, preparing and consulting roles, in healthcare and expecting more from their stage in becoming a qualified health professionals) and non- care sector, where an evidence-based and consuming food. This holistic and pharmaceutical companies. health services. Medical technology health psychologist. clinical (e.g., commissioners, approach supported by academic approach makes the course unique. is advancing rapidly, creating ever- managers and policymakers) rigour, is crucial to decision-making, Students gain a critical understanding Learning emphasises enterprise, increasing demand for the latest Health Psychology is the study of backgrounds working within health clinical practice and guidance. of the social, nutritional, health and innovation, consultancy and builds treatments. Health policy affects (and psychological and behavioural or social care organisations who environmental implications of all on the opportunities London offers is affected by) all of these factors. processes in health, illness and wish to develop their knowledge, The course provides students with these different elements of the food as a leading global health centre. healthcare. It is concerned with understanding and skills relating to education in quantitative and system, at local, national and The approach is international in This course gives students the understanding how psychological, integrated and person-centred care. qualitative research methods and international levels. outlook. Academics include leaders knowledge and tools they need to behavioural and cultural factors applied data analysis from basic to from health industries and scientific understand and influence the health contribute to physical health and The course is designed to meet the advanced levels. The course is interdisciplinary, communities who share their policy process and to operate within illness. Chartered health psychologists professional needs of those who are drawing on disciplines including experiences of change and innovation an increasingly complex policy use their knowledge of theory and either already occupying leadership It aims to enable students to sociology, politics, economics, and insights on future trends. environment. They analyse the social, practice to promote wellbeing and or management roles or who wish independently design, develop geography, epidemiology and health political and economic factors that understand physical illness, while to move into such roles and are and conduct research relevant to sciences. It aims to enable students to Collaborative projects put into affect policy, how policy is made and promoting healthier lifestyles. interested in leading integrated care clinical practice, appraise current consider how food policy could better practice organisational leadership who the key players are. initiatives for the benefit of their local research, apply findings to the address the totality of the challenges and influencing skills to create value The course aims to provide students populations, service users and carers delivery of health services in clinical posed by modern food systems in a range of health sectors. These The course combines an international with in-depth knowledge and and organisations. practice and develop a collaborative, and to empower them to formulate include a management consultancy focus and academic rigour with understanding of health psychology, interdisciplinary and ethical approach solutions. It addresses the major project with business clients. the development of skills, which informed by current scholarship In addition to the core skills required to research and practice. food questions of our time: How can be applied in a wide range of and research, including critical to plan and lead an integrated care can policy be used to feed people The course develops inspirational health policy, planning and awareness of current issues and initiative, the transferable skills The course is suitable for healthcare healthily, sustainably,equitably leaders who can ensure decisions management settings. developments in the field. that students acquire include: professionals from primary care or and affordably? Why is this are translated quickly into action leadership and project management; allied health disciplines working not happening? and achieve the exceptional from Career opportunities Career opportunities networking; critical reflection; in clinical research and students the everyday. With health and healthcare recognised The course constitutes the first presentation and team working skills. aspiring to work in this field. Career opportunities as such high priorities around the stage in becoming an academic Career opportunities Career opportunities Career opportunities This course has been running for 20 world, health policy specialists or practitioner health psychologist. years and has a thriving community Healthcare and pharmaceutical continue to be in high demand. Upon successful completion of the In the current context where The course gives students the research of alumni working in very diverse companies value skills in strategy, course, graduates are eligible to integrated and person-centred care and academic education to become a sectors. Some work for governmental innovation and change leadership, Graduates have gone on to a range apply for stage two training in are increasingly high priorities for clinical academic researcher across departments in the UK and abroad management consultancy and of policy, campaigning/advocacy health psychology. policy-makers and organisations, all health and social care settings. or international organisations, such economic evaluation. and research roles within the public the course offers career prospects Graduates gain vital transferable as the FAO. Many work for (and often sector (such as the NHS), NGOs and Graduates have gone on to complete in health and social care, where skills which are applicable to all The MSc Health Management third-sector organisations and the PhD Health Psychology and take graduates will be able to develop and lead) civil society organisations internship programme and enterprise health and medical-related careers. campaigning for change in the food private sector. positions as academic research lead change in their area of practice projects offer opportunities for assistants, assistant psychologists to enhance the development and system. Others have established gaining health sector experience, Find out more their own companies as food Find out more in an applied setting, smoking provision of integrated services. building students’ CVs and initiating cessation officers, public health and city.ac.uk/hcre entrepreneurs. Students may their next career moves. city.ac.uk/hpol also continue to a PhD. health promotion practitioners in the *At the time of printing (July 2019) this NHS and third-sector organisations. course was subject to approval. Please Find out more visit our website to ensure it is available Find out more city.ac.uk/hman Find out more for 2020/21. city.ac.uk/sfop city.ac.uk/hpsy Find out more city.ac.uk/hlic

62 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 63 Interprofessional courses

Master in Advanced Clinical Advanced Public Health Practice Practice Health MPH PGDip/MSc and Social Care School of Health Sciences of Health School MSc Sciences of Health School

Duration Duration Duration Full-time: one year Part-time: two to four years (PGDip), Full-time: one year taught course plus Part-time: two years three to five years (MSc) up to one year for the dissertation Part-time: two years taught course The Master in Public Health (MPH) We offer both MSc Advanced plus up to one year for the dissertation provides cutting-edge knowledge Clinical Practice and MSc Advanced of evidence-based practice and Clinical Practice Apprenticeship. This course is flexible and research methods for leading public These interdisciplinary courses professionally orientated for all health initiatives. prepare students to become health and social care professionals. competent Advanced Clinical It seeks to prepare a research-focused The course is ideal for those who Practitioners (ACP) by developing workforce that will help revolutionise aspire to address contemporary their core capabilities and specialty- health and social care to meet society’s health challenges at local, national specific competencies across the changing health needs by using new and international levels. It is global, four pillars: clinical practice, technologies and more innovative and interdisciplinary and has a distinct leadership and management, creative working practices. focus on social, political and education and research. The economic determinants of health, courses have been designed by Students are prepared for new, including mental health. senior clinicians to equip students efficient and ethical ways of with the knowledge, skills, values working that will offer better quality The course provides a thorough and attitudes (behaviours) to meet management by placing service users professional and theoretical the requirements of the Multi- and carers at the centre of the service. grounding in public health sciences, Professional Framework of Advanced Compulsory modules are kept to a enabling students to further the Clinical Practice introduced by minimum, enabling students to protection and improvement of Health Education England in 2017. tailor the course to meet their population health at the local, professional goals. national and international level. Students develop the skills to safely assess, diagnose and treat or refer The course offers education in the Students gain the skills and confidence patients presenting with complex latest theoretical developments to independently lead public health problems within their scope of and enhances research and critical projects and investigations in public practice. A minimum of three years, thinking skills. It provides the or private sector settings. clinical experience and employer opportunity to conduct research support is required for students to Career opportunities under expert supervision, laying the enter the course. foundations for independent practice The MPH is the most widely and research in the future. recognised professional qualification Career opportunities for leadership in public health. Our Graduates will be able to undertake an Career opportunities graduates work globally in both ACP role within their specialty, setting This course enhances professional private and public sectors including or sector. skills in practice, research and the NHS, international agencies, educating. It is particularly suitable charities, government and Future career options cross the span for those professionals who have academic environments. of the four pillars and may include specific, specialist requirements. Students gain vital transferable senior ACP, consultant practitioner, Successful completion of the skills, which are applicable to all senior leadership, clinical educator course will enhance students’ health-related careers where attention and research roles. Graduates may prospects when applying for posts in to detail, conducting research and also choose to undertake doctoral management, education and social evaluation for evidence-based practice education or enter a clinical academic support, in a range of public and and report writing are an advantage. career pathway. private settings.

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Maria-Rose Dwek Health Services Research doctoral student 64 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 65 Language and Midwifery Communication Science

Adult Mental Child and Professional Speech, Language Speech, Language Midwifery Health (Advanced Adolescent Mental Practice and Communication and Communication (Advanced Practice Health Health (Advanced PGCert (Advanced Practice Needs in Schools: Practice Health School of Health Sciences of Health School and Social Care) Practice Health Health and Social Advanced Practice and Social Care) Sciences of Health School MSc and Social Care) Care) MSc MSc MSc PGCert, PGDip, MSc

Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Full-time: one year taught course plus Full-time: one year taught course plus Full-time: one year Full-time: one year taught course plus Full-time: one year taught course Full-time: one year taught course plus up to one year for the dissertation up to one year for the dissertation Part-time: two years up to one year for the dissertation plus up to one year for the research up to one year for the dissertation Part-time: two years taught course Part-time: two years taught course Part-time: two years taught course dissertation Part-time: two years taught course plus up to one year for the dissertation plus up to one year for the dissertation This course has been designed for plus up to one year for the dissertation Part-time: two years taught course plus up to one year for the dissertation professional practitioners who have plus up to one year for the research a commitment to the enhancement This course provides skills, This course has been developed This course offers a flexible, dissertation Students on this course learn about the knowledge and awareness in the in consultation with the national of personal and professional professionally orientated course for latest theoretical policy and clinical assessment and formulation of charity YoungMinds. It provides development in their own area speech and language therapists and This course is run jointly by City, developments relating to midwifery. mental health problems, evidence- skills, knowledge and awareness in of professional and/or clinical other graduates from related fields. University of London and University They also develop research, applied based psychosocial interventions early identification and psychological practice. For those working in areas College London Institute of Education. data analysis and critical thinking and of contemporary issues in mental development, managing risk and of specialism (neonatal, cardiac, Students gain specialist knowledge It brings together speech and skills and have the opportunity to health. Two optional modules offer identifying resilience, therapeutic intensive care and midwifery), the about disorders of communication language therapists, teachers conduct a research project under an opportunity for students to meet approaches and the evidence base course allows for subject-specific and swallowing and develop skills and other graduate school-based expert supervision. Graduates are well their individual professional goals. focused on child and adolescent modules to be taken as part of this in research methods and critical practitioners for collaborative study. prepared for leading roles as evidence- mental health. Two optional Postgraduate Certificate. appraisal. Optional modules Taught modules cover educational based practitioners. The course is for all healthcare modules offer an opportunity for integrate learning from allied The course enables practitioners contexts and children’s language, professionals working in mental students to meet their individual disciplines such as mental health. The course is designed for qualified from a wide range of backgrounds to social, emotional and behavioural health services, including nurses, professional goals. midwives who have at least one work together to develop the skills All learning draws on the latest development and needs, as well as social workers, psychologists and research methods, preparing students year of experience in clinical practitioners from a range of allied The course uses a sound evidence and knowledge required to become research and makes strong midwifery practice. competent practitioners and leaders in connections with clinical practice. to undertake a research project in statutory and voluntary agencies. base to prepare students to participate their chosen area. in a specialist workforce with core professional practice and to develop Students learn from clinical and It provides the opportunity to create It enables practitioners to work values including the development professional skills, knowledge and research leaders and service users. Learning is through lectures, a challenging and rewarding course effectively with colleagues from a of ethical and culturally sensitive understanding through work. They can study for the full MSc, a workshops and seminars led by of study tailored to students’ personal range of professional backgrounds practice and the placement of the PGDip (omitting the dissertation) or development needs. Compulsory Career opportunities international researchers and senior and to critically explore the dynamics service user and carer at the centre a PGCert (four modules). clinical/academic professionals. As modules are kept to a minimum with and challenges of working in this of decision-making and service This course enhances skills and well as advancing students’ knowledge a wide range of optional modules context, considering innovative ways re-design. Students enhance their knowledge in leadership and Career opportunities and skills, this course is a springboard allowing students to personalise of meeting the mental health needs ability to critically evaluate their professional practice and can lead to This course is for qualified speech for fresh stimulation and reflection their learning. of individuals and communities. work or the work of others who care posts in administration, management and language therapists who wish in a community of fellow students, for individuals and families where and clinical practice in a variety of to enhance their careers or progress practitioners and research experts. Career opportunities Career opportunities there are significant concerns different public and private settings. into research. It qualifies students This course allows practitioners Graduates gain an understanding and vulnerability. Specialist routes can strengthen both for posts in the UK and abroad that Career opportunities flexibility in developing specialist and knowledge of mental health and career prospects and employability in require a master’s level degree and The course qualification raises a skills and knowledge at a highly Career opportunities the area of specialism. the ability to work effectively and for specialist clinical positions. The graduate’s profile as a specialist demanding academic and collaboratively across professional Graduates have gone on to course is ideal for other graduates professional level. It prepares On successful completion of the and leader in speech, language agencies. They have gone on to influence the mental health of seeking a research career in the field students for a range of roles, PGCert, students have the option of and communication needs in the secure roles in mental health, social children and young people at a of communication disorders. Alumni including midwife consultant progressing on to a relevant PGDip school setting. It is an advantage care, the voluntary sector and health direct and indirect level through have progressed into senior clinical and jobs in clinical leadership. or MSc. for teachers and clinicians seeking policy and management. Graduates the development of services and roles, doctoral study and higher-grade specialist and can also apply for research posts and the application of interprofessional research posts. managerial posts. Find out more undertake research. practice and research. Find out more city.ac.uk/hami city.ac.uk/prpr Find out more Please note, this course does not Find out more Find out more city.ac.uk/hasp lead to professional qualification as a speech and language therapist city.ac.uk/haam city.ac.uk/haca or teacher.

Find out more city.ac.uk/hsls 66 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 67 Nursing Optometry Radiography

Advanced Clinical Optometry Medical Ultrasound Radiography Radiography Ophthalmic MSc PGCert/PGDip/MSc (Computed (Medical Magnetic Nurse Practitioner Tomography) Resonance) School of Health Sciences of Health School (Advanced Practice PGCert/PGDip/MSc PGCert/PGDip/MSc Sciences of Health School Health and Social Duration Duration Duration Duration Care) Full-time: one year taught Postgraduate Certificate Postgraduate Certificate Postgraduate Certificate MSc course plus up to one year for the Part-time: one year Part-time: up to one year Part-time: up to one year dissertation Postgraduate Diploma Postgraduate Diploma Postgraduate Diploma Part-time: two years taught course Duration Part-time: 18 months to two years Part-time: up to two years Part-time: up to two years plus up to one year for the dissertation Full-time: one year taught course plus MSc MSc MSc up to one year for the dissertation Preparing optometrists to provide Part-time: maximum of five years Part-time: maximum of five years Part-time: maximum of five years Part-time: two years taught course enhanced clinical care to patients, plus up to one year for the dissertation this course emphasises the co- The MSc Medical Ultrasound offers The course enable students to apply The course enable students to apply management of patients and the flexible study for professionals scientific, research, professional and scientific, research, professional and This course is flexible and expansion of the optometrist’s role undertaking obstetrics, gynaecology technical knowledge to their role technical knowledge to their role professionally orientated to nurses in ocular therapeutics. and abdominal ultrasound training. within this cross-sectional modality. within this cross-sectional modality. working in ophthalmic health and It allows students to build on the It allows students to build on the eye care. Changes in healthcare This MSc Clinical Optometry has an Students learn a range of subjects knowledge and clinical experience knowledge and clinical experience needs have led to the use of new international reputation for quality to enable them to explore the gained from their professional work gained from their professional work technologies and more innovative and is at the forefront of professional underpinning knowledge of safe, by complementing the experiences by complementing the experiences and creative working practices. clinical optometry education. effective and evidence-based they already have and allowing they already have and allowing Students acquire skills and ultrasound practice with which to them to enhance their professional them to enhance their professional This course prepares a specialist knowledge from leading UK experts help them develop clinical skills in development and make a greater development and make a greater research-focused workforce to help in a dynamic learning environment. their own department. contribution to the investigatory contribution to the investigatory revolutionise health and social care healthcare process. healthcare process. The course is accredited for the Our expert staff provide a supportive provision. It introduces new, efficient environment for students to develop and ethical ways of working that will General Optical Council’s Continuing The course covers subjects including The course covers subjects, including Education and Training points and their academic abilities and advanced clinical applications of computed clinical applications of medical offer better quality of life and care by practice skills. City’s Clinical Skills placing service users and carers at includes the College of Optometrists’ tomography and the science and magnetic resonance and the physics Professional Certificates in Suite is equipped with a real-time instrumentation involved in this and instrumentation involved in this the centre of decision-making and ultrasound machine and simulators. service redesign. It enables students Glaucoma, Medical Retina, form of radiography. form of radiography. Paediatric Eye Care and Visual to respond better to pressures within This course is for practitioners Impairment. Prescribing modules Career opportunities Career opportunities the current healthcare system. working in radiography, nursing, are accredited by the General Optical midwifery or other related The course enables students to The course enables students to Council with content forming the Learning concentrates on the professions, who want to gain work towards advancing their work towards advancing their theory for the College of Optometrists’ latest theoretical and clinical a professional qualification to practice and supports a rationale for practice and supports a rationale for Common Final Assessment in developments relating to ophthalmic practise ultrasound. This course is more senior roles in the profession, more senior roles in the profession, Independent Prescribing. nursing. The course develops accredited by the Consortium for including specialist clinical practice, including specialist clinical practice, students’ research skills and management and research. management and research. Career opportunities the Accreditation of Sonographic critical thinking and provides the Education (CASE). opportunity to conduct a research Optometrists are equipped to provide Find out more Find out more project under expert supervision. enhanced clinical care to patients, Career opportunities city.ac.uk/hrct city.ac.uk/hrmm particularly in the field of ocular Graduates can pursue a career in Career opportunities therapeutics. They can choose to ultrasound working in a range of become an additional supply or an This course enhances skills in healthcare settings within the NHS independent prescribing optometrist as practice, teaching and research or private practice. Others choose to part of the course training. Students leading to roles in nurse management enhance their skills to help them work can opt to complete the College of and as advanced nurse practitioners towards advanced and consultant- Optometrists’ Professional in ophthalmology in a range of public level practice. Recent graduates Certificates in Glaucoma, Medical and private settings. It is suitable for have developed their careers as Retina, Paediatric Eye Care and ophthalmic nurses considering a post superintendent sonographers, Visual Impairment. in research. managers, clinical application specialists and lecturers. Find out more Find out more city.ac.uk/honp city.ac.uk/hcop Find out more city.ac.uk/hmul 68 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 69 Graduate courses As the original provider of legal education, established 170 years ago as Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) 72 the Inns of Court School of Law, The City Law School has unmatched Graduate Entry LLB 72 experience and a highly respected reputation. We are based in the City Professional legal training of London, home to the most prestigious law courts, legal firms and Legal Practice Course (LPC) LLM/PGDip/PGCert 72 headquarters of international human rights organisations. Masterʼs courses International Business Law (Distance Learning) LLM 73 Legal Practice LLM 73 Maritime Law (Dubai) LLM 73 Maritime Law (Greece) LLM 74 Master of Laws LLM 74 Professional Legal Skills LLM 74

Bar Vocational Studies The City LLM/PGDip 76 Law School Bar Vocational Studies Postgraduate students at all levels Finally, LLM, MPhil and PhD courses While the School acknowledges its benefit from the research expertise allow students to deepen their history, it also recognises the need to and practice experience of the understanding of particular areas of be at the cutting-edge of the changing School’s academic staff, many of whom law while retaining the practice focus landscape of legal education and has are leading experts in their fields. that is one of the hallmarks of the successfully launched several new The Graduate Diploma in Law and the School’s approach. initiatives. For example, the Distance Graduate Entry LLB allow graduates Learning LLM in International who have completed a non-law degree. City students learn from great legal Business Law has allowed us to The Legal Practice Course (LPC), has minds. Our academics are passionate develop our expertise in new modes a worldwide reputation for excellence and knowledgeable; producing of delivery. and equip students with the skills and world-leading research and shaping knowledge required for legal practice. legal and judicial policy in the UK The City Law School is working hard and across the globe. Our courses to become a truly leading law school Our new Bar Vocational Studies are designed to prepare students within a decade, with help from its programmes, replacing the BTPC for a successful career in the legal extended community of stakeholders. course, offer a suite of three vocational profession or within another sector. training programmes for the Bar so From 2020 we will occupy a brand that students can choose the mode new building with facilities designed of study which best suits purposely for both law education and their requirements. practice, these include an in-house legal clinic, legal technology and a mock court room. Facilities have been designed to reflect developments in the sector.

7073 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 71 Graduate courses Professional Masterʼs legal training courses

Graduate Diploma Graduate Entry Legal Practice International Legal Practice Maritime Law LLB LLM The City Law School The City Law in Law (GDL) Course (LPC) Business Law (Dubai) School The City Law LLM/PGDip/PGCert (Distance Learning) LLM LLM

Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Full-time: one year Full-time: two years Full-time: one year Part-time: two years Full-time: six months Full-time: one year This course is distance learning Part-time: 12 to 18 months Part-time: two years The GDL comprises the seven core This is a senior status law degree, This course is designed to ensure foundation subjects normally which allows non-law graduates to students are fully prepared to meet This flexible, part-time course is Students who studied the Legal This course offered in Dubai, is covered within a qualifying law achieve an LLB law degree in just the demands of the modern legal designed to provide students with Practice Course (LPC) prior to 2017/18 designed to benefit experienced degree and which are prerequisites two years. profession. Delivered by experienced specialist knowledge and will help at City can convert their LPC into an professionals involved in the for taking the professional legal legal practitioners, the course to broaden existing knowledge of LLM Legal Practice. City’s LPC is shipping sectors and those courses. The course has an Students have the opportunity to comprises two stages: Stage One the legal rules which impact on delivered at master’s level rather than companies that provide services unrivalled reputation within gain skills and knowledge in core provides students with essential international business. Students degree level, allowing students to gain to the shipping industries. the profession for the quality of legal subjects and specialist areas skills and knowledge and Stage Two acquire legal and research skills to an LLM by completing an additional education, the ability of its students of law. allows students to enhance their help enhance career prospects as dissertation after their LPC. The LLM Maritime Law gives and the preparation it provides for knowledge in three specialist areas. shipping professionals exposure to In year one, candidates study four of international business professionals students seeking pupillage or a or legal practitioners. This LLM satisfies all the requirements international maritime and trade law, training contract. the seven core foundation subjects There are three Legal Practice Course of a traditional LLM, with a focus while legally qualified professionals usually covered in an undergraduate routes. If students successfully As the course is delivered online, on professional practice. The course will benefit from the specialist nature The course is for non-law graduates law degree. In year two, students take complete the compulsory taught students have the freedom to study in gives students the opportunity to of the course. Non-legal professionals and is delivered by the School’s own the remaining three core subjects and element of the course (Stage One their own working environment and strengthen their knowledge and involved in the maritime sector will academic and visiting staff from other have the opportunity to enhance their and Stage Two) they will be awarded at their individual pace. Technology- understanding of a specific area of gain deep insights into the practical prestigious universities. In addition knowledge of particular areas of law the Postgraduate Diploma. This is enhanced learning environments professional legal practice. workings of maritime and trade law. to the foundation subjects, students by choosing six elective modules. the compulsory vocational support the student experience take another academic law subject qualification required as part of alongside City’s extensive range of Students make a written proposal The course is delivered in intensive unique to City: Introduction to legal This degree attracts international students’ training to become a for their dissertation and undertake block format by our own UK-based students from around the world, legal databases, including e-journals ethics. This subject directs students’ solicitor and be eligible to be admitted and e-books. research in an area of choice related faculty and by scheduled weekend attention towards the ethical Canada in particular. Canadian law- to the Roll of Solicitors of England and to legal practice, procedure or skills. classes. It welcomes applicants who challenges which lawyers might face specific electives can be chosen in Wales. Alternatively, students may Students receive access to study have a good degree in any related in practice and to the values which year two. choose to complete the additional materials and are encouraged Please note that the LLM Legal discipline and/or relevant characterise the profession. practice-focused dissertation to to explore and identify areas for Practice is also included in the LPC work experience. There are opportunities for students course fee and the dissertation must to develop legal skills in mooting, achieve a master’s degree. research and reflection, with the Students have the option to convert course typically being completed over be undertaken after students have Career opportunities legal research, legal writing and completed the LPC. This LLM is only their GDL to an LLB degree by taking Students may also undertake Stage six consecutive terms (two calendar A specialist qualification in take part in various pro bono projects. available for those who studied their further law modules. One only. If they do so, they will be years). An accelerated route is also international maritime law will LPC at City prior to 2017/18. It must awarded the Postgraduate Certificate available, with students studying undoubtedly enhance career Career opportunities be completed within five years of Career opportunities but will not be eligible to be admitted the course over four terms. prospects. With this course, Successful completion of this course completing the course. Successful completion of the GDL to the Roll of Solicitors of England graduates will be equipped to qualifies students to progress on to qualifies students to progress to one and Wales without also completing Career opportunities of the two professional courses all Career opportunities work in and/or enhance their the LPC for intending solicitors or the Stage Two. Students can participate By the end of the course, students career prospects in a variety of Bar Vocational Studies for intending UK lawyers are required to take: the in a wide variety of pro bono schemes This course has been developed LPC for solicitors or the BPTC for will have gained specialist sectors and job roles, including barristers. As with the qualifying law and be part of the LPC Mentor knowledge in key areas of law from to enhance the employability the civil service or government, degree, the GDL can prepare students barristers. Students can also pursue Programme. of its graduates. Students who a Master of Laws qualification. an international business perspective insurance companies, law firms, for a range of non-legal career paths and acquired transferable skills have a training contract can use maritime regulators, ports and Career opportunities within the civil service, financial As with the three-year LLB, this degree essential to develop a career in the dissertation to demonstrate terminals, shipbrokers, shipping companies and more. Expert advice can help students to pursue non-legal Students progress to a wide variety international business or law. commitment to an area of practice. companies and more. is available from personal tutors and careers in civil service, financial of firms both in London and beyond. Students seeking a training contract City’s Careers Service. This service They are assisted by the Training Students who complete the course or pursuing an alternative legal organisations and other industries. Find out more can provide support for applications, Contract Advisory Service who help may wish to continue their advanced career can use the qualification to organise mock interviews and give with CV, cover letters and interviews. legal studies on the PhD or MPhil strengthen their CV and improve city.ac.uk/madu advice on job-searching techniques. Find out more There are opportunities for students courses offered by The City employability prospects. city.ac.uk/lglb to enhance their CVs through pro bono Law School. Find out more schemes and external competitions. Find out more city.ac.uk/lgdl Find out more city.ac.uk/llpl Find out more city.ac.uk/libl city.ac.uk/llpc

72 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 73 “ I chose to study at The City Law School because Maritime Law Master of Laws Professional LLM the teaching is world-class and the University The City Law School The City Law (Greece) Legal Skills School The City Law LLM LLM offers fantastic mentoring schemes. I plan on becoming a solicitor and I feel ready to do

Duration Duration Duration this because City has boosted my professional Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: six months competence and critical thinking.” Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Part-time: one year

This course is academically The LLM Master of Laws has a flexible, Students who successfully undertook Susan Wangoi demanding and beneficial for anyone professional and global focus designed the Bar Professional Training LPC with LLM Legal Practice working in the shipping industry. to deepen students’ knowledge and Course (BPTC) between 2010/11 and fulfil career aspirations. 2016/17 (please note that the LLM It provides a detailed understanding Professional Legal Skills is only of maritime law and issues relating The course showcases current available for those who studied the to the shipping market, allowing legal debates, exposing students BPTC prior to 2017/18) can convert students to build on existing to legal practitioners and leading their BPTC into an LLM Professional knowledge and enhance their academics. Students gain the skills Legal Skills. City’s BPTC is delivered career prospects. needed to tackle complex legal at master’s level, allowing students problems within chosen subjects, to gain an LLM by completing an Delivered in the Lloyd’s Register with a unique chance to specialise additional dissertation after building in Piraeus, Greece with in cutting-edge legal areas. the BPTC. access to the Laskaridou Library, the course is delivered in English in The LLM Master of Laws offers Students are asked to put forward weekend blocks by British academics, extensive choice when it comes to a proposal for their dissertation legal practitioners and specialist student learning. Students can opt upon application to this LLM. It maritime lecturers from around for a general Master of Laws degree must be completed within five the world. by selecting courses from the wide- years of completing the BPTC. This ranging list of modules or pursue LLM satisfies the requirements of a Career opportunities one of several specialisms, such traditional LLM but has a primary The LLM Maritime Law provides as international commercial law, focus on practice. In addition to the students with a sound basis for international banking and finance taught classes on the BPTC, the LLM developing a career in shipping law, international energy law and gives students the chance to focus on and maritime law, whether it is regulation, public international law an area of professional legal practice with a national or international and more. Students can build their of their choice, while strengthening firm or in-house. learning around their academic their knowledge and understanding and professional goals. of legal professional practice. This can Students who complete the course be linked to pupillage to underline a may wish to continue their academic Career opportunities commitment to a particular area or it studies by enrolling in a PhD or Graduates are well placed to pursue can be used more generally. MPhil offered by the School. careers in legal practice, as well as business, management, banking and Career opportunities Find out more finance, government, NGOs, charities, This course has been developed city.ac.uk/lmlg academia and research. Lawyers in specifically to assist students in practice support the LLM Master of achieving their career aspirations. Laws through a series of talks over the Students who have pupillage can duration of the course. Expert careers use work on their dissertation to advice is available from personal show their commitment to a specific tutors and City’s Careers Service. area of practice. Students seeking pupillage or going into other areas of Graduates can continue their legal work can use the dissertation to academic studies by enrolling in a strengthen their CV. PhD or MPhil offered by the School. Find out more Find out more city.ac.uk/lprs city.ac.uk/lmol

74 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 75 Bar Vocational Studies

Our Bar Vocational Studies offer a Students also have the option of Part One covers the knowledge selection of ways to complete the obtaining an LLM by completing subjects which are assessed centrally “I love the people and culture on campus and vocational stage of training for a practice-focused dissertation or by the Bar Standards Board: Civil aspiring barristers. They provide clinical legal eduction module (which Litigation & Dispute Resolution and studying in central London means the courts

The City Law School The City Law rigorous and highly skills-focused includes undertaking supervised Criminal Litigation, Evidence & School The City Law training that qualifies graduates for clinical legal work) in addition to the Sentencing. This part is delivered and law firms are within close proximity. I feel the Call to the Bar of England and Wales, compulsory vocational qualification wholly online, making the best use while the variety of programmes for the Bar and the specialist of educational technology to enable Legal Practice Course has prepared me well for a allows students as much flexibility as modules. This route aims to enhance students to study effectively in their possible in choosing the option that students’ knowledge of substantive own time and from any location. trainee solicitor role and I look forward to using best suits their needs. law and/or legal skills in relation Students may start Part One in to a particular area of professional either July or March and will have a the skills and knowledge I learned in practice.” The programmes are designed to practice and offers the opportunity choice of three assessment sittings reflect the work of the Bar. They focus for extended practical experience. in December, April and August, on advocacy, drafting and written depending on what best suits Karina Sehdev and oral advice, all underpinned by Bar Vocational Studies their learning. LPC with LLM in Legal Practice case analysis and legal research, as (Part-time) well as knowledge of the rule of civil Part Two is an intensive taught and criminal procedure, evidence LLM/PGDip with Specialism/PGDip course in which students study and professional ethics. The skills Duration: Part-time, two years and are assessed in the remaining and knowledge gained on these compulsory skills modules. The programmes prepare students for The part-time programme offers teaching, learning and assessment successful careers as barristers but the same choice of three routes as on this course is condensed into a they are also transferable to a wide the full-time programme, although shorter period than the other Bar range of other careers. students on the LLM route must Vocational Studies programmes to complete the dissertation. enable students to complete them The three programmes on offer are: more quickly. There are two entry However, teaching on the points for Part Two: in September Bar Vocational Studies programme takes place on fortnightly and February. (Full-time) Wednesdays over two years, with online classes and activities in Students are not required to pass LLM/PGDip with Specialism/PGDip between the face-to-face learning. Part One before commencing Duraton: Full-tme, one year This programme is structured to Part Two. However, the entry dates enable students to manage their have been designed to allow students This is a full-time programme which studies alongside work and other to receive their results for Part One offers the choice of three different commitments. It is a blended before commencing Part Two, in routes depending on whether learning course, making the best order to move promptly from one students simply wish to qualify as use of educational technology to part to another. a barrister or whether they wish to maximise flexibility while also further enhance their employability ensuring students are fully supported Career opportunities and develop specialist knowledge throughout the programme. On successful completion of any of and skills. the programmes, students will have Bar Vocational Studies completed the vocational stage of The Postgraduate Diploma comprises (Two-part) training for the Bar of England and the subjects that form the compulsory Wales required to become a barrister. vocatonal qualification for Call PGDip to the Bar of England and Wales. Duration: Part One – self-paced The range of skills that students The Postgraduate Diploma with online learning, Part Two – full-time, develop are also highly transferable Specialism, which includes two 21 weeks to successful careers in a wide additional modules in a specialist range of other areas. Students are area of professional practice, allows The two-part programme comprises offered guidance and support via our students to further develop a critical the subjects that form the specialist Pupillage Advisory Service understanding of the law, procedure compulsory vocational qualification and our Careers team. and real-world insights in the context for Call to the Bar of England and *At the time of printing (July 2019), the of that area. Wales. The programme is delivered Bar Vocational Studies where subject to in two parts: authorisation by the Bar Standards Board. Please visit our website for up-to- date information.

76 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 77 The School comprises six departments offering a broad portfolio Aviation Management Library and Information Science of master's programmes attracting students from around the world. Air Safety Management MSc 80 Information Science MSc 87 Air Transport Management MSc 80 Library Science MA/MSc 87

Aircraft Maintenance Management MSc 80 Maritime Operations Management Airport Management MSc 81 Maritime Operations and Management MSc 88 Civil Engineering Maritime Operations and Management in Greece MSc 88 School of Civil Engineering Structures MSc 81 Mechanical Engineering Civil Engineering Structures (Nuclear Power Plants) Advanced Mechanical Engineering MSc 88 MSc 81 Energy and Environmental Technology and Economics Construction Management MSc 82

School of ArtsSchool & Social Sciences MSc 89 Temporary Works and Construction Mathematics, Method Engineering MSc 82 Project Management Project Management, Finance and Risk MSc 89 Computer Science Artificial Intelligence MSc 82 Computer Science Business Systems Analysis and Design MSc 83 Computer Games Technology MSc 83 Cyber Security MSc 83 Data Science MSc 84 & Engineering Human-Computer Interaction Design MSc 84 Software Engineering MSc 84 The programmes are informed by (e.g. Arup, Skanska, WSP, Thornton verification of complex sociotechnical Electrical and Electronic Engineering our world-class research dedicated Tomasetti and Pell Frischmann). The and software-intensive systems. In the to transforming the lives of future Department of Electrical & Electronic field of human-computer interaction, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in generations - tackling energy, Engineering is renowned for its academics focus on the accessibility Healthcare Technology MSc 86 environmental, healthcare and expertise in developing sensors and usability of interactive systems Internet of Things with Entrepreneurship MSc 86 technology issues in partnership with and instrumentation (particularly supporting human-computer global leaders. The last Research in the field of biomedical engineering), activities and the development of Renewable Energy and Power Systems Management Excellence Framework (REF) rated its work on managing systems novel interfaces and devices for MSc 86 79 per cent of Engineering and 75 per complexity in design and confronting such systems. Finally, research on cent of Mathematics research as either the challenges of cyber security. data-intensive systems explores the world-leading (4*) or internationally The Department of Mechanical development of novel methods and excellent (3*) demonstrating the vast Engineering & Aeronautics has frameworks to support the modelling, impact of our work on wider society. outstanding facilities for applied search, analysis, consumption and research and is particularly strong evolution of massive text and rich The School actively maintains in the field of experimental and media, including images and sound. close relationships with industry computational fluid dynamics, The Department's programmes in leaders, who employ our graduates two-phase flow, turbomachinery and Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security to fuel their teams with fresh ideas energy systems, waste heat recovery and Data Science reflect particularly and creativity and in turn helps us and compressor technology. The research expertise in these areas. to ensure our programmes reflect department was the first in the United current industry requirements. Kingdom to offer programmes in The Department of Library & Our dedicated Professional Liaison Aeronautical Engineering. Information Science builds on Unit help students get work-based City's long tradition of research in experience through internships and In the Department of Mathematics, information science. Academics in industry-based projects. All our academic staff undertake the department are experts in the programmes are accredited by the fundamental research in pure and history of information sciences, the relevant professional bodies i.e. The applied mathematics in the areas of organisation and communication of British Computer Society, The Royal representation theory, mathematical information in a digital environment Aeronautical Society and The Institute physics and mathematical biology. and the information behaviour of of Mechanical Engineers. individuals and groups within society. Academics in the Department of In the Department of Civil Computer Science work across Engineering, academics work in the three broad areas. In software and fields of structural and geotechnical systems engineering, research engineering and hydrodynamics, examines fundamental theories, in partnership with leading design methods and technologies related to consultancies and building contractors the development, assessment and

8178 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 82 Aviation Management Civil Engineering

Air Safety Air Transport Aircraft Airport Civil Engineering Civil Engineering Management Management Maintenance Management Structures Structures (Nuclear MSc MSc Management MSc MSc Power Plants) MSc MSc

Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Part-time: average three, maximum Part-time: average three, maximum Part-time: average three, maximum Part-time: average three, maximum Full-time: one year Full-time: one year five years five years five years five years Part-time: either two or three years Part-time: two years

With the MSc in Air Safety This course is designed for the With the MSc Aircraft Maintenance This course has been established This is an established and accredited The UK has committed to a long- Management, an industry-approved working aviation employee who Management, a Royal Aeronautical following increasing demand from technical course for those who wish term nuclear new-build programme global course, students can study wishes to align, develop or transform Society-approved course, students industry and professional bodies. It to expand their specialist knowledge that is forecast to generate more in several locations and align, their career, with the aim to move can study in several locations to align, is designed for the working airport and skills in structural analysis than 40,000 jobs, yet there is little develop or transform their career. into a position carrying greater develop or transform their career. employee who wishes to align, and design. It offers a mixture of specialised education in this area.

School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering Science Computer of Mathematics, School managerial responsibility. develop or transform their career theory and practice to enhance the & Engineering Science Computer of Mathematics, School The objective of the coures is to The course allows experienced and who aims to move into a employment prospects of both recent The MSc Civil Engineering Structures achieve and maintain an acceptable Delivered by experts from industry, aviation industry personnel to position carrying greater graduates and mid-career engineers. (Nuclear Power Plants) is designed to level of safety within the context the objective of the course is to improve their knowledge of the managerial responsibility. respond to the skills shortage reported of increasing air traffic, wider improve the contributions that complex disciplines required to The course focuses on advanced by employers currently working in the commercial competition and a greater experienced professionals, including enable full understanding of the Delivered by experts from industry, analytical techniques, use of current area. This course enables students focus on cost consciousness. Students air crew, engineers and air traffic technical, operational and financial the objective of the course is to design standards and development of to study how to design, evaluate and learn the latest safety management controllers, can make to their pressures impacting aircraft improve the contributions that creative and specialist solutions. analyse structural systems, with a techniques, freshen their current organisations. Students learn the maintenance and flight operations. experienced professionals (including It also provides scope for use of state- special focus on nuclear power plants. knowledge and build a network latest management techniques, airport engineers, airport ground staff of-the-art technology, as excellent Students learn all the principles used of peers. freshen their current knowledge The demand for airline maintenance managers, airport environmental, experimental facilities and extensive for the design of buildings, bridges, and build a network of peers. management knowledge is growing. logistics and IT staff and airport software are available. special structures and, in particular, The course is suited to those with This course gives students the business staff) can make to their nuclear containment structures. at least two years’ work experience The course is suited to those with opportunity to freshen their current organisations. Students learn the The Department of Civil Engineering within the aviation industry and at least two years’ work experience knowledge, learn the latest airline latest management techniques, boasts structural engineering academic This course is offered on either a one- who want to study an Executive within the aviation industry who maintenance management techniques freshen their current knowledge staff with diverse research interests year full-time or two-year part-time MBA-style qualification. Current want to study an Executive MBA-style and build a network of peers. and build a network of peers. and many opportunities for basis to allow students maximum students include pilots, air traffic qualification. Students with a military professional engagement. flexibility. It is supported by the controllers, maintenance staff and background are also welcomed. It is suited to those with at least two The course is suited to those with Professional institutions and well- Royal Academy of Engineering. engineers, the majority of whom years’ work experience within the at least two years’ work experience known consulting engineers are possess a licence or professional Career opportunities aviation industry who want to study within the airport industry who also located in the vicinity. Industry Career opportunities an Executive MBA-style qualification. education. Students with a military This is a professional course want to study an Executive MBA-style experts regularly provide insight On successful completion of this Students with a military background background are also welcomed. recognised by the aviation industry qualification. Students with a military into structural engineering practice course, students will be equipped to are also welcomed. and approved by the Royal background are also welcomed. and research. enhance their careers as on-site or Career opportunities Aeronautical Society. Our alumni Career opportunities design engineers. They may also be This professional course is recognised network includes high-ranking Career opportunities Career opportunities involved in building, designing or by the aviation industry and approved individuals such as the COO of The airline industry requires half a This is a new professional course Graduates have been successful in constructing new plants, evaluating by the Royal Aeronautical Society. Oman Air, the CEO of Jet Time, the million new aircraft engineers in the recognised by the airport industry, securing employment with leading and maintaining existing plants or Graduates have taken up roles such Air Safety Director of ICAO and the next 20 years. As such, the industry supported by Airports Council construction consultants such as decommissioning plants at the end as safety manager, training captain, Vice-President of Safety and Quality is in need of maintenance managers International and due to be approved Ramboll, AECOM, AKT II, Grimshaw of their life cycle. quality manager, flight safety officer, at Copenhagen Airport. and leaders. by the Royal Aeronautical Society. Our Architects, Costain and Skanska. safety inspector, safety consultant alumni network of all MSc Aviation Many have found employment with Graduates will be prepared for Find out more and accident investigator in civil Graduates may change or transform courses includes high-ranking research institutes and government positions of responsibility within city.ac.uk/enpp aviation authorities, airlines and their careers as a result of the individuals such as the COO of Oman agencies or pursued doctoral studies airlines, aviation authorities and other aircraft operators and course. An RAF air traffic controller Air, the CEO of Jet Time and the Vice- in the UK and internationally. defence forces. Graduate destinations defence forces worldwide. immediately moved into a senior President of Safety and Quality at Graduates are working in the UK, the include chief engineer, head of safety, training position at Eurocontrol in Copenhagen Airport. USA, Australia, China, Iran, Turkey, senior investigator and other senior Brussels after completing the course. the Middle East and other countries. Find out more A network of over 1,400 alumni management positions. city.ac.uk/easm provides lifelong support. Find out more Find out more Find out more city.ac.uk/airp city.ac.uk/eces Find out more city.ac.uk/eamm city.ac.uk/eatm

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Construction Temporary Works Artificial Business Systems Computer Games Cyber Security Management and Construction Intelligence Analysis and Technology MSc MSc Method Engineering MSc Design MSc MSc MSc

Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Duration Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: 12 months Full-time: 12 months Full-time: 12 months Full-time: 12 months (two days learning per week) Part-time: two years (15 months with internship) (15 months with internship) (15 months with internship) (15 months with internship) Part-time: two years Part-time: 28 months Part-time: 28 months (one day learning per week) This course is a specialist This professionally oriented course This course is aimed at graduate qualification for those involved trains students in cutting-edge, This course equips students with This course is designed for graduates students and IT/ICT professionals The MSc Construction Management in the design and construction of nature-inspired artificial intelligence specialist knowledge of subjects such of computing-related degrees who and is intended to provide the is aimed at technically competent temporary works. Aimed at graduates skills, sought after by industry, as business systems requirements want to further specialise their skills needed to become cyber construction professionals who want with at least two years of professional government and academia. analysis and design, data modelling, undergraduate education and develop security professionals. School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering Science Computer of Mathematics, School to move into managerial roles within experience in construction, it also business intelligence and business their careers in the games industry. It & Engineering Science Computer of Mathematics, School Students study and apply advanced Students specialise in many aspects of the construction sector or develop suits recent graduates with a engineering with Enterprise Resource is also for those who wish to update methods and techniques in artificial cyber security, including cryptography, their own businesses. good appreciation of Planning (ERP). their skills after time spent in industry construction processes. intelligence. The particular emphasis as a computing professional and for network security, information security The course prepares students for is on dynamic, responsive ‘deep The course is designed to produce those with equivalent experience. and security audit. They engage a management career in major The course allows those who have learning’, based on neural networks hybrid IT/business professionals with researchers to develop their construction projects. It combines a solid understanding of engineering and its applications, from health who understand the role IT systems Students develop strong technical scientific knowledge and skills and both business and construction principles to understand the particular to finance and computational play in supporting organisations, to skills and specialist knowledge are offered the option to specialise in modules to provide a construction- and unusual challenges posed by modelling of learning and behaviour ensure that such systems can help in computer graphics, artificial the sociotechnical aspects of security, focused balance in business temporary works, enabling them to in neuroscience. Students explore businesses achieve their objectives. intelligence, physics and audio in cybercrime and digital forensics. education. Course modules are produce robust design solutions for explainable artificial intelligence Making key decisions on what the addition to developing the ability The course includes a cyber security delivered by highly experienced safe and economic construction. and how to address issues of ethics, right system is to meet these to design and build game engines challenge, which aims to provide practising professionals and legality and accountability. organisational objectives is the from scratch in industry standard The course, delivered by both students with tangible experience academic experts, which ensures focus of the course. languages, including C++. academic and industry experts, Learning is hands-on in our new, that extends across all the security- content is directly applicable to addresses the regulatory background world-class artificial intelligence specific core modules. Featuring future jobs. It is accredited by BCS, The Chartered Students develop knowledge of to temporary works, the design of laboratory. It provides the latest Institute for IT for the purposes the games development process, real-life scenarios, this cyber The course is accredited by the Joint geotechnical, structural and marine computers, tools and technologies of partially meeting the academic including the pitch, design and security challenge ensures hands- Board of Moderators as part of the temporary works, demolition, and the computational power needed requirement for registration as a prototyping to build a demo. on experience in testing and professional development needed to plant and access works. Students for deep learning. Chartered IT Professional. Through an individual project, analysing computing systems. achieve chartered status within the gain the skills to undertake safe students experience the planning, The course is led by recognised major engineering institutions. but cost-effective designs and an Career opportunities management and execution of a Career opportunities experts renowned for applying understanding of the range of plant major games technology project. Graduates move into a range of artificial intelligence and machine Graduates are prepared for Career opportunities and techniques that can be employed. careers in the IT/ICT sector and the learning to real-life problems. employment in roles including Career opportunities telecommunications and banking This course leads to management The Temporary Works Forum (TWf) business analyst, systems analyst industries. Careers in information roles within all parts of construction has designated City as a Centre of Career opportunities and IT consultant. Graduates are equipped with advanced delivery, from project supervision knowledge and skills in a range of security are particularly popular. Excellence in Temporary Works and Students are in demand for roles with and engineering roles through Recent graduates are employed in topics in preparation for a career in Construction Method Engineering and artificial intelligence institutions, Graduate roles include security to consultancy in multinational consultancy companies and major computer games development. has collaborated in the development government and industries ranging analyst, cyber security manager/ companies. software users such as banks, public and delivery of this new course. from health and energy to finance services, telecommunications, Professional roles include programmer architect, cyber security consultant and gaming. multinational manufacturers and positions in 3D graphics, audio, and information security officer. Graduates use the course to add a Career opportunities business competence perspective to large retailers. Graduates have also physics, artificial intelligence, game City’s Professional Liaison Unit helps Students who do well in the their professional expertise. A qualification in temporary works secured employment in some of the engines, tools and networking. has widespread application across students to find internships for their most prestigious companies in the taught part of the course may also all civil engineering disciplines. final project with organisations world, including Accenture, PwC, Destinations of recent graduates be considered for an internship Find out more Students can also enter the research in nearby Tech City and London’s Barclays, Credit Suisse and IBM. include Sony Interactive Entertainment programme, in which companies city.ac.uk/ecma arena, contributing to innovation in Knowledge Quarter. Europe, Rockstar Games, Codemasters sponsor them during their temporary works. and Marmalade. research project. The course also prepares students for Find out more entry into doctoral research. city.ac.uk/cbsy Find out more Find out more Find out more city.ac.uk/etwc city.ac.uk/ccgt city.ac.uk/ccys Find out more city.ac.uk/arin

82 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 83 “It helps to be in the heart of London and close Data Science Human-Computer Software MSc Interaction Design Engineering to the world of business-economy. City has MSc MSc broadened my horizons both in a professional and personal sense and I believe it has

Duration Duration Duration prepared me to step into a fulfilling career.” Full-time: 12 months Full-time: 12 months Full-time: 12 months (15 months with internship) (15 months with internship) (15 months with internship) Part-time: 28 months Part-time: 28 months Part-time: 28 months Gorkem Yukselen MSc Maritime Operations and Management This course prepares students for This course provides students with This industry-focused course is for successful careers as data scientists. advanced knowledge, industry- computer science graduates and One of the first degrees of its kind desired skills and new perspectives experienced professional programmers in the UK, it covers the intersection on design, thoroughly preparing interested in developing high-quality,

School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering Science Computer of Mathematics, School of computer science and statistics, them for a career in user-centred complex software systems. & Engineering Science Computer of Mathematics, School machine learning and design or user research. professional applications. The course develops skills in It equips students with the latest analysing system requirements and The course focuses on machine academic research, theories and designing appropriate software learning as the most exciting techniques in human-computer solutions, as well as evaluating and technology around data and our interaction (HCI), user experience using advanced software engineering own graduates confirm this is highly (UX), usability and interaction design. environments, design methods and valued in employment. Students also It encourages students to think about programming languages. explore areas like data visualisation design in new ways, recognising that to generate insight from data and there are many ‘right’ ways to design. It offers an up-to-the-minute communicate it in practice. curriculum with a robust Students gain a combination of professional core. There is a strong Students can benefit from our theoretical and real-world knowledge, focus on key industrial technologies, expertise in machine learning and along with the necessary skills and including object-oriented the excellent facilities we offer to experience to create engaging user programming languages (Java, C++), students studying the technical experiences. They study modules design patterns, service-oriented aspects of data analysis. We have that cover the entire user-centred architecture, cloud computing, big a world-leading centre for data design and evaluation process, data and mainstream standards. visualisation, where students are from understanding user needs to exposed to the latest developments in designing interactive systems that City has one of the largest groups of presenting and communicating their meet those needs, to evaluating academics in London specialising in results – a highly sought-after skill. the usability of those (and existing research in the areas of systems and systems) through user research. software engineering. Students are Career opportunities exposed to leading-edge technologies delivered by experts in their fields. The course prepares students for a Career opportunities successful career in industries from This course empowers students to Career opportunities health to retail, from technology to succeed in UX roles in leading digital government. Students can undertake agencies, business consultancies, IT The course aims to meet the their final project as an internship companies and government. Job titles significant demand for graduates with organisations such as Google, include UX designer/consultant, user with a good knowledge of software Unilever or the Home Office. researcher, information architect and engineering. This demand arises accessibility specialist. from consultancies, software Graduates have found employment houses, major software users such in major domestic and international This course is highly respected by as banks, retailers and the public companies. Some students may industry, with high employability services, defence, aerospace and pursue doctoral studies after prospects. Graduate destinations telecommunications companies. completing the MSc. have included Samsung, Tesco, Thomson Reuters and Google. Graduate destinations include Ceridian, Galatea Associates, GForces, Find out more Oracle and Thomson Reuters. city.ac.uk/cdas Find out more city.ac.uk/chci Find out more city.ac.uk/swen

84 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 85 Electrical and Library and Electronic Engineering Information Science

Innovation and Internet of Renewable Energy Information Library Science Entrepreneurship Things with and Power Systems Science MA/MSc in Healthcare Entrepreneurship Management MSc Technology* MSc MSc MSc Duration Duration Duration Duration Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Duration Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Full-time: one year This is a professionally oriented Part-time: two years course to prepare graduate students This course, suitable for both This course, accredited by CILIP, The MA/MSc Library Science, for a successful career in the broad practising engineers and those offers a comprehensive insight which is accredited by CILIP, offers This course prepares students with Internet of Things (IoT) field. It is considering a career in engineering, into the theory and practice of the an innovative perspective on the the technical skills needed for a among the first IoT courses in the has been designed to provide an information professions. It provides scope and relevance of collection successful career in the growing UK and unique in its emphasis on in-depth insight into the technical our students with highly employable management in the 21st century. It

School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering Science Computer of Mathematics, School area of healthcare technology. industry-linked design and training workings, management and economics skills that allow them to design and provides students with the high-level & Engineering Science Computer of Mathematics, School in entrepreneurship. of the electrical power industry. develop innovative information knowledge and skills needed for Students develop specialist services across a range of sectors. career advancement within libraries knowledge in principles, design, The course covers engineering Due to the introduction of tough or collection professions. software development, data subjects important to IoT, including environmental laws, the use and Our course blends history and analytics, electrophysiology, electronics, sensors, communications, integration of renewable energy philosophy of information with Course content embraces document sensors, fabrication and prototyping data analytics and security, leading schemes are now of paramount modern techniques for collection, collections of all types, from of healthcare technologies. In up to group and individual design importance for nations to meet strict organisation, indexing, retrieval, traditional physical works, through addition to this, students also have projects that are guided by IoT low-pollution targets. Knowledge of communication and analysis of multimedia to emerging, immersive the opportunity to develop their companies. It provides top laboratory the impact of such schemes on the information. The combination of content formats. understanding of ethics, economics facilities and engineering expertise to existing electrical grid structure is research-active staff, key practitioners and the regulatory aspects necessary support design activities. covered in great detail. In addition and pioneering thinkers within the Students are equipped to understand, to launch a new product to the market. to this, modules covering power field allows students to develop the work with, design and deliver For aspiring entrepreneurs, training electronics, power systems protection, knowledge and real-world skills collection-based information services The course combines expertise in in new ventures and product modelling, simulation and design are needed to gain employment and to within a spectrum of sectors; gaining entrepreneurship from City’s world- development is delivered by City’s all addressed on the course, alongside manage and shape today’s constantly from the latest academic research, leading Cass Business School and world-leading Cass Business School. economics, supply chain and shifting information landscape. theories and recommendations for provides top laboratory facilities and market factors. practice from leading academics and expertise to support design activities. Career opportunities The course benefits from City’s innovators within the field. We draw The course has been developed for central London location, close to inspiration from arts and humanities, It is suited to students with a scientific The course prepares students for graduates with electrical/electronic the British Library and Turing philosophy, technology and science. or engineering background. Students successful careers in IoT across a or related engineering or scientific Institute. An optional programme of with new healthcare technology ideas range of sectors, including electronics, backgrounds to meet the increasing workshops, in collaboration with key The course benefits from City’s who seek the technical skills offered informatics, telecommunications and demand from the energy and professionals, widens the impact of central London location, close on this course are also encouraged computing. Entrepreneurial students power industry. learning and networking with to many important collections, to apply. gain skills to work for one of many IoT startups or create their own. Students the sector. including the British Library, may be considered for competitive Career opportunities British Museum, Victoria and Albert Career opportunities Museum and the National Archives. industry placements, subject Students are prepared for careers Career opportunities The course prepares students to availability. that encompass a range of roles in The course prepares students for successful careers in health Career opportunities the power industry, from technical for employment in roles such as care industries — from new start- aspects to management roles. information officer, information Graduates take on roles such as library ups to established providers. Find out more Graduates have found jobs as manager, research data manager, assistant, senior library assistant, Entrepreneurial students will aim city.ac.uk/iote engineers, managers and analysts knowledge manager, subject assistant librarian, librarian or library to develop their own companies to in the power sector with companies librarian, library data analyst, manager. Broader employment launch the products. such as Ofgem, National Grid, UK user experience (UX) librarian, opportunities include roles in Power Networks, E.ON, EDF Energy, information architect, taxonomist, publishing, web design, web content At the time of printing (July 2019), Vattenfall, Caterpillar and the meta-data specialist, content provision, information organisation this course was subject to approval. transport sector. management, copyright officer, and architecture, analytics, teaching Please visit our website for up-to-date information governance and policy. and UX for information services. The information. Students may also wish to further The course prepares students for course prepares students for entry into their research in the energy field entry into doctoral research. doctoral research. Find out more by undertaking a PhD. city.ac.uk/ieht Find out more Find out more Find out more city.ac.uk/insc city.ac.uk/ilsc city.ac.uk/erep 86 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 87 Maritime Operations Mechanical Project Management Engineering Management

Maritime Maritime Advanced Energy and Project Operations and Operations and Mechanical Environmental Management, Management Management Engineering Technology and Finance and Risk MSc in Greece MSc Economics MSc MSc MSc Duration Duration Duration Full-time: one year with the project Full-time: one year Full-time: one year Duration Duration taking approximately three months Part-time: two years Part-time: two years Full-time: 18 months with the project Full-time: one year during this period taking approximately five months Part-time: two years Part-time: two to three years with This course offers a blend of theory This course provides students with during this period the project taking approximately six and practice to help students develop a foundation in quantitative risk the skills and knowledge required The drive towards increased assessment and decision-making months during or after this period This course is designed to train for advanced mechanical engineers, efficiency and decarbonisation coupled with classical engineering professionals for various sectors and of power generation, transport, This course is designed to train particularly in thermo-fluids economics and financial engineering. School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering Science Computer of Mathematics, School occupations within the maritime and applications. The course is designed industry and domestic energy use & Engineering Science Computer of Mathematics, School professionals for the various sectors sea transport industries. It is suitable will require professionals with the Students unravel complex problems and occupations within the maritime in collaboration with industry and for existing professionals serving professional bodies. ability to see beyond traditional by applying scientific methods to and sea transport industries. It is both at sea and onshore and for those subject boundaries and understand real-world examples and discover open to graduates who have qualified seeking a career in the maritime and Topics covered include advanced the complex inter-relations between how to measure risk on any scale. in an appropriate discipline and sea transport industries. fluid mechanics, structural technological, economic, political to those serving at sea, offshore or mechanics, mathematical modelling and behavioural aspects of the From analysing indecision within inland-based organisations. The course makes use of prestigious in CAD, renewable and sustainable energy sector. games theory to rebuilding a country’s visiting speakers and takes advantage energy, gas turbine engineering, infrastructure, students explore the It focuses on maritime operations, of the importance of Piraeus, Greece, The course aims to instil the drivers in which businesses operate management, law and technology and IC engines and powertrain and as an international maritime hub, advanced heat transfer. knowledge and vision required and the challenges and opportunities the related business environment. with a focus on maritime operations, to deliver a sustainable future. It that project managers face. There is also an emphasis on the fields management, law, technology and Students gain an in-depth maintains strong links with industry, of port security and risk management, the related business environment. understanding of the fundamentals which provides students with a range Combining expertise from City marine environmental and offshore It also emphasises the fields of port and acquire professional skills and of perspectives on current issues academic staff and visiting lecturers studies, marketing and selected security and risk management, marine appreciation of the latest engineering relating to energy policy, low-carbon from industry, the course merges aspects of conceptual ship design. environmental and offshore studies, developments in the energy and technologies, user behaviour, diverse and unique skill sets to solve marketing and aspects of conceptual energy markets and regulation. complex problems. It makes use of prestigious visiting transport sectors. ship design. speakers and takes advantage of The dissertation provides an The course contains pathways The course is suited to students the importance of London as an Students develop leadership and opportunity to apply knowledge and to qualify as further learning for with a scientific or financial international maritime hub. management skills in a wide range develop a deep understanding in a accreditation with the Energy engineering background as the focus of maritime activities on a modular specialised topic of the student’s Institute for Chartered Engineer is on quantitative risk assessment, Career opportunities basis, at suitably spaced weekends choice. The course has been and Energy Manager status. which requires an aptitude for Graduates have wide-ranging over the duration of the course. accredited regularly by the Institution problem-solving. employment opportunities within of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Career opportunities the marine sector. These include Career opportunities on behalf of the Engineering Council With strong industry links, expert Career opportunities commercial and technical roles within Graduates have wide-ranging as fully meeting the academic lecturers and a diverse range of Graduates are prepared for a wide the worldwide marine industry and employment opportunities, including requirement for registration as a modules on offer, the course equips range of career opportunities senior management roles. commercial and technical roles within Chartered Engineer (CEng). graduates to become leaders and involving project management, risk the worldwide marine industry. entrepreneurs in energy management, management and financial planning. Former students have taken up Career opportunities supply or policy-making. It is well suited to those pursuing a positions in the fields of ship and Former students have taken up Graduates have wide-ranging career managing complex projects, insurance broking, offshore operations, positions in the fields of ship employment opportunities Past employment destinations of applying the latest management tools port and terminal management, and insurance broking, offshore including Ford, Rolls Royce, Lotus, our graduates include World Energy and techniques. shipping finance, surveying, ship operations, port and terminal BP, Howden, Shell, Heliex, Bühler Council, UK Power Reserve, Enelco superintendence, safety management management, safety management, Sortex, Transport for London, Jaguar, Environmental Technology, Energy Past graduates have secured and as technical and commercial shipping finance and as technical and Delphi and Holroyd. Institute, Equinoxe Services Ltd, Log employment with companies such as managers and directors. commercial managers and directors. Tech Consultancy, Ofgem and Eurostar, Petronas, Southern Water RWE Innogy. and Bechtel Construction. Find out more Find out more Find out more city.ac.uk/emen city.ac.uk/emop city.ac.uk/emog Find out more Find out more city.ac.uk/eeet city.ac.uk/epmf

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discretion of the relevant school. be higher. th While some of our postgraduate ∙ Wednesday 13 November 2019 courses have application deadlines We also recognise several pre- ∙ Wednesday 19th February 2020 as early as February, many do not master’s courses, in particular those rd have a fixed application deadline provided by the INTO Centre at City ∙ Wednesday 3 June 2020 and operate on a rolling admission and Kaplan International Find out more ∙ Wednesday 11th November 2020 basis. Applications will close when the College London. Further information can be found in the course is full, so you are encouraged to ‘How to apply’ section of the webpage For more details, visit: apply as early as possible. of your intended course of study. Entry www.city.ac.uk/study/visit-us requirements vary for each course and are listed on the individual course webpages: www.city.ac.uk/courses

90 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 91 Lotta Urban (MSc Speech and Language Therapy) and Rayan Böhm (MA Sociology) at Museum of London. With a diverse student population drawn from over 160 countries, our vibrant atmosphere makes City a special place to live and study. International advice and support

A dedicated Visa requirements English language courses Our partners around the world international team Students are responsible for As City’s courses are delivered in City’s International Office supports We understand that choosing a obtaining any necessary visas and English, you will need to provide and strengthens our global profile ∙ The UK Council for International university and studying overseas is entry clearance into the UK, so we proof that you are competent in by developing strategic links Student Affairs (UKCISA) provides one of the biggest decisions you will advise you to prepare well in advance English before admission. Our and activities in education and information and advice for make, so we offer all the advice and by researching the requirements partner INTO City runs pre-sessional research. Through these links, we international students planning to support you will need on your journey. for students from your country. English courses during the summer are able to create opportunities for study in the UK. Visit www.ukcisa. Information about applying for and to help students improve their students to study abroad and take up org.uk for more information and Our International Student extending visas to study is available English before their courses start. See international internships while also to find out how fee statuses are Recruitment team visits more than on City’s website. A team of dedicated our website for the English language benefitting from visiting academics assessed in the UK. 50 countries every year. It meets international student advisers can requirements of specific courses. and speakers. the most able students interested help you with your visa ∙ If you are interested in part-time in studying in the UK and our application process. work to support yourself, visit worldwide network of representatives Tuition fees and living costs www.unitemps.com for more are on hand to help students with Remember that your tuition fee does Next steps information. their applications. Tier 4 (General) student visa not include the cost of accommodation If you have a Tier 4 (General) student and you will need to budget for this ∙ For more information about ∙ EU students who register for the When you arrive in September, you visa, which was issued for study at along with flights, food, travel, books the International Student 20/21 intake at City (either as new can take part in our International another university, college or school and personal items. Where necessary, Recruitment team and to find out or continuing students) will be Students Welcome Reception. This in the UK, you will need to make our temping agency Unitemps is able when we might be visiting your liable for the same tuition fee as annual celebration of City’s global a new Tier 4 application to the UK to find suitable work for you. country, visit: www.city.ac.uk/ UK students for the duration of community is an opportunity to meet Home Office using a Confirmation of international their course. Following the 2016 staff and fellow students. Acceptance for Studies (CAS) from Detailed information on tuition fees is European Union Referendum in City, before you will be allowed to available under individual courses on ∙ Former City students are the UK, City has posted advice on enrol with us. our website. spread across the world and our its website for any students who network of alumni ambassadors might have concerns. To read the is an invaluable source of advice. statement, visit: www.city.ac.uk/ To find out more, go to: eu-statement www.city.ac.uk/alumni/alumni- ambassadors

92 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 93 Postgraduate study at City is an affordable option Although you will usually have to pay for postgraduate study yourself, many sources of funding exist, including for students from a wide range of backgrounds. scholarships, studentships and loans. During your time at City, you can obtain financial advice and support from our award-winning Student Centre.

Postgraduate scholarships US loans City has a wide range of scholarship City participates in the William D opportunities available for students Ford Federal Direct Loan Program. in all five of its Schools. Postgraduate loans Find out more A postgraduate loan is available Funding Find out more www.city.ac.uk/study/postgraduate from the Government to help www.city.ac.uk /funding-and-financial-support cover the cost of postgraduate study. Students can apply for up to £10,906 to help pay tuition fees or your studies Research Council Disabled Students’ living expenses. The loan is non- studentships Allowances (DSAs) means tested and paid directly to Research Councils may be able to You can apply for Disabled Students’ the student. provide financial assistance for Allowances (DSAs) if you live in UK, EU and overseas postgraduate England and have a disability that If you are interested in undertaking students. It is best to contact the affects your ability to study, such as a research degree at City, you can Council relevant to your area of study a learning difficulty, mental health apply for a Postgraduate Doctoral directly to enquire about eligibility condition, physical disability or long- Loan for up to £25,700, divided and application. term health condition. equally across each year of your course. Find out more Find out more Charities and trusts www.gov.uk/disabled-students- www.gov.uk/masters-loan There may be funding for allowances-dsas postgraduate study available from charities and trusts. The British Council has a scholarship search Professional and career database that you might find useful. development loans City is listed on the Professional Find out more Career and Development Loan www.educationuk.org Register to provide loans for www.britishcouncil.org tuition fees and living costs for UK postgraduates. Find out more www.direct.gov.uk/pcdl

Hardship Fund The City, University of London Hardship Fund provides discretionary financial assistance for students experiencing unexpected financial hardship to help them remain in higher education. The Fund is administered by the Student Centre and is intended to act as a safety net for those in financial difficulty.

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(Pre-Registration) MSc 58 G Advanced Clinical Practice PGDip/MSc 64 Management MSc 49 Research Methods MSc 37 Civil Engineering Structures MSc 81 Global Creative Industries MA 38 Advanced Mechanical Engineering MSc 88 Maritime Law (Dubai) LLM 73 Research Methods with Psychology MSc 37 Civil Engineering Structures Global Finance MSc 46 Advanced Ophthalmic Nurse Practitioner (Nuclear Power Plants) MSc 81 Maritime Law (Greece) LLM 74 (Advanced Practice Health and Social Care) Global MBA 54 S Maritime Operations and Management MSc 88 MSc 68 Clinical Optometry MSc 68 Global Political Economy MA 30 Shipping, Trade and Finance MSc 51 Maritime Operations and Management Advanced Practice Health Clinical Research MRes 62 Global Supply Chain Management MSc 47 Software Engineering MSc 84 and Social Care MSc 64 in Greece MSc 88 Clinical, Social and Cognitive Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) 72 Sound Practice and Composition MA 35 Air Safety Management MSc 80 Neuroscience MSc 35 Marketing Strategy and Innovation MSc 49 Graduate Entry LLB 72 Speech and Language Therapy MSc 60 Air Transport Management MSc 80 Computer Games Technology MSc 83 Master of Laws LLM 74 Grantmaking, Philanthropy and Social Speech, Language and Communication Master in Public Health MPH 64 Aircraft Maintenance Management MSc 80 Construction Management MSc 82 Investment PGCert/PGDip/MSc 52 (Advanced Practice Health and Social Care) PGCert/PGDip/MSc 67 Airport Management MSc 81 Corporate Finance MSc 43 Mathematical Trading and Finance MSc 49 H Artificial Intelligence MSc 82 Counselling Psychology PGCert 36 Media and Communications MA 39 Speech, Language and Communication Health Economics MSc 27 Needs in Schools: Advanced Practice MSc 67 Counselling Psychology DPsych 36 Medical Ultrasound PGCert/PGDip/MSc 68 B Health Management MSc 62 Creative Writing MA 28 Mental Health Nursing (Pre-Registration) MSc 59 T Banking and International Finance MSc 42 Health Policy MSc 63 Creative Writing MFA 28 Midwifery RM/PGDip 59 Television Journalism MA 34 Bar Vocational Studies LLM/PGDip 76 Health Psychology MSc 63 Creative Writing and Publishing MA 28 Midwifery Temporary Works and Construction Behavioural Economics MSc 35 Human-Computer Interaction Design MSc 84 (Advanced Practice Health and Social Care) Method Engineering MSc 82 Criminology and Criminal Justice MSc 37 MSc 67 Broadcast Journalism MA 31 V Culture, Policy and Management MA 38 I Modular Executive MBA 54 Business Analytics MSc 43 Cyber Security MSc 83 Information Science MSc 87 Voluntary Sector Management PGDip/MSc 53 Business Economics/International Business N Economics MSc 26 Innovation, Creativity and Leadership D MA/MSc/MInnov 47 Newspaper Journalism MA 34 Business Systems Analysis and Design MSc 83 Data Science MSc 84 Innovation and Entrepreneurship NGO Management PGDip/MSc 52 Development Economics MSc 26 In Healthcare Technology MSc 86 O Diplomacy and Foreign Policy MA 29 Insurance and Risk Management MSc 47 Organisational Psychology MSc 36 Interactive Journalism MA 32 E International Accounting and Finance MSc 48 P Economic Evaluation in Healthcare MSc 26 International Business MSc 48 Primary Care (Practice Nursing) MSc 59 Economics MSc 27 International Business Law Primary Care (Practice Nursing) PGDip 60 Energy and Environmental Technology (Distance Learning) LLM 73 and Economics MSc 89 Professional Legal Skills LLM 74 International Communications and PGCert 66 Energy, Trade and Finance MSc 43 Development MA 38 Professional Practice MSc 89 English MA 29 International Journalism MA 32 Project Management, Finance and Risk Entrepreneurship MSc 44 International Politics MA 30 Public Health (School Nursing, Health Visiting and District Nursing) PGDip/MSc 60 Erasmus Mundus MA: Journalism, International Politics and Human Rights MA 30 Media and Globalisation MA 31 Publishing/International Publishing MA 29 Internet of Things with Executive Master's in Leadership MSc 44 Entrepreneurship MSc 86 Q Executive Master's in Medical 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101 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 www.city.ac.uk 102 Take the next step and discover your full potential

Amreen Rahim Mussa (LPC with LLM Legal Practice) and Clara Louise Castelli (MA International Politics).

103 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2020/21 Introduction 1 Welcome Why City? 2 This is City 4 London is our campus 8 An outstanding student experience 10 A place to build your career 12 Enterprise with impact 14 Ground-breaking research

Taught courses 24 School of Arts & Social Sciences 40 Cass Business School 56 School of Health Sciences 70 The City Law School 78 School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering Information 90 How to apply 92 International advice and support 94 Funding your studies 96 Map

Postgraduate Open Evenings You are welcome to attend the following Postgraduate Open Evenings at City, ahead of the 2020/21 entry:

∙ Wednesday 13th November 2019 ∙ Wednesday 19th February 2020 ∙ Wednesday 3rd June 2020 ∙ Wednesday 11th November 2020

For more details, visit: www.city.ac.uk/study/visit-us