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Postgraduate Prospectus 2019/20 Prospectus Postgraduate Postgraduate Prospectus 2019/20 City, UniversityCity, London of Postgraduate Prospectus 2019/20 www.city.ac.uk Postgraduate Prospectus 2019/20 www.city.ac.uk Introduction 1 Welcome Why City? 2 Research 4 Academic profiles 6 Taught and research degrees 8 Enterprise 10 Campus 12 Location 14 University of London 16 Careers Courses 18 School of Arts & Social Sciences 34 Cass Business School 50 School of Health Sciences 66 The City Law School 72 School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering Information 84 Student experience 86 International students 88 Funding 90 Applications 92 Maps 95 Course index Postgraduate Open Evenings You are welcome to attend the following Postgraduate Open Evenings at City, ahead of 2019/20 entry: ∙ Wednesday 14th November 2018 ∙ Wednesday 6th February 2019. For more details, visit: www.city.ac.uk/study/visit-us 18 School of Arts & Social Sciences 66 The City Law School 20 Economics 68 Graduate courses 22 English 68 Professional legal training 23 International Politics 69 Master’s courses 24 Journalism 71 Research degrees 28 Music 28 Psychology 72 School of Mathematics, 30 Research Methods Computer Science & Engineering 31 Sociology 74 Aviation Management 32 Research degrees 75 Civil Engineering 76 Computer Science 34 Cass Business School 80 Electrical and Electronic 36 Master’s courses Engineering 45 Postgraduate Certificate 81 Library and Information Science 45 Summer School 82 Maritime Operations Management 45 Charities courses 82 Mechanical Engineering 47 MBA 83 Research degrees 49 Research degrees 50 School of Health Sciences 52 Graduate entry courses 56 Health Management, Policy, Psychology, Research and Public Health 58 Interprofessional courses 61 Language and Communication Science 61 Midwifery 62 Nursing 62 Optometry 63 Radiography 64 Research degrees Welcome City, University of London is a special place. Turning the page is your first step on a path of personal growth and achievement. For over a century, our academics and students have used education, research and enterprise to transform their lives, their communities and the world. City, University of London is the university of the City of London. We have strong links with the City, not least because the Lord Mayor of London is our Rector. The most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF2014) results showed that 40 per cent of our total academic staff were producing research that is world-leading or internationally excellent. City joined the University of London on 1st September 2016, further strengthening the diverse, academically excellent environment that City provides. It’s a place for you to study alongside leading academics in one of the world’s most cosmopolitan, opportunity-filled cities: London. Turn the page and take your first step. This is City. Professor Sir Paul Curran President www.city.ac.uk 1 Characterised by excellence, creativity, Research innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration, City’s research pedigree spans more than a century. This is life-changing research 2 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2019/20 Professor Panicos Kyriacou RCBE Director, School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering. Research City is changing lives with groundbreaking research into alternative monitoring of arterial blood oxygen saturation in critically ill newborns, to reduce the risk of a lack of oxygen to the brain. There is a need for more reliable, non-invasive monitoring of blood oxygen levels in critically ill newborns Research in this most when there is the risk of cerebral fascinating area is hypoxia (lack of oxygen reaching the brain). There is no readily literally the act of creating available technology even if babies knowledge where there don’t suffer from Hypoxic Ischaemic once was none. Encephalopathy (HIE), a condition in which the brain does not receive enough oxygen. HIE can be fatal; The RCBE was founded at City in the within as little as five minutes mid-1990s with the aim of pursuing of oxygen deprivation, brain cells research in the emerging field of can begin dying. biomedical engineering, a discipline that applies the principles of physics To overcome this challenge, the and engineering to the complex anterior fontanelle (one of the ‘soft medical devices used in the diagnosis spots’ on an infant skull) is used as a and treatment of the sick and injured. measurement site; the theory being that blood circulation may be better Occupying state-of-the-art laboratories preserved at this central site. New and having built an impressive global optical, non-invasive sensors have reputation, the RCBE offers world- been custom-made and are being class facilities and expertise to investigated in clinical trials at City. international academics including scientists, engineers and clinicians. Leading this research is Professor Working in close partnership with Panicos Kyriacou, Director of City’s leading hospitals and healthcare Research Centre for Biomedical technology companies, the RCBE Engineering (RCBE). “Biomedical develops medical devices, biosensors engineering contributions to and signal and image processing healthcare, through research and techniques with applications across development in the University and a wide range of medical specialities. in the medical devices industries, have brought about a change in how healthcare is delivered,” says Professor Kyriacou. “As new technologies for diagnosis, monitoring, treatment and the development of hospital laboratory facilities grow, the hospital has become the focal point for the delivery of healthcare, with an associated development of allied health specialities. The synthesis of a novel hypothesis (and the ability to test it) is best accomplished in an environment where creativity Find out more is valued.” You can find out more about the RCBE’s research by visiting: www.city.ac.uk/rcbe www.city.ac.uk 3 This is pushing Academic profiles Academic academic boundaries Dr Charitini Stavropoulou Senior Lecturer in Health Management, School of Health Sciences. Dr Charitini Stavropoulou is investigating the impact of recessions on healthcare and mortality rates. Her study of the 2008 financial crisis in Europe, published in the British Medical Journal, showed that the recession was associated with adverse health outcomes, linking it to an increase mainly in mental health problems. A second study on mortality rates focused on one of the worst-affected countries, Greece. The study, published in The Lancet Public Health, found that mortality trends had been interrupted after the onset of the crisis, resulting in an extra 242 deaths a month. It also revealed some unexpected results, such as a decrease in the number of deaths due to road traffic accidents, likely caused by fewer people being able to afford car running costs. Find out more Learn more about Dr Stavropoulou’s research by visiting: www.city.ac.uk/cstavropoulou 4 City, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2019/20 Academic profiles Academic Professor Andrew Choo Professor Ajay Bhalla Professor Miguel Mera The City Law School Cass Business School School of Arts & Social Sciences Professor Andrew Choo is a leading Professor Ajay Bhalla is Professor Professor Miguel Mera is a composer expert in the law of criminal of Global Innovation and Family of music for the moving image and a evidence. In his research, he seeks Business in the Faculty of musicologist. He is interested in the to make sense of shifting patterns Management at Cass. He comes combination of practice and theory in the admissibility of evidence in from a family with generations of within the context of contemporary contemporary courts. diversified interests. His research and culture and the creative industries. advisory work sits largely in three Traditionally, a set of stringent rules areas: family business, employee His work has been screened at film has determined what evidence can ownership and global innovation. festivals and cinemas around the and cannot be submitted during world. He is also widely published criminal trials. In recent years, In 2013, alongside academics from in music and moving image studies however, there has been a worldwide City and Northumbria University, including three books, several shift towards a less prescriptive Professor Bhalla won the Best Paper journal articles, book chapters format. Professor Choo considers the award at the 73rd Annual Meeting and other papers. decisions courts make and whether of the Academy of Management for fixed rules are preferable to a more his article ‘Test Driving the Future: Professor Mera serves on the flexible model. How design competitions are editorial board of several leading changing innovation’ in Academy of music journals. His contribution to Building on his work in the field, Management Perspectives. The award public understanding of the subject Professor Choo also examines was conferred for advancing the includes appearances on the BBC the influence of the European understanding of issues relevant to Proms and Radio 3 and numerous Convention on Human Rights on managers and executives. pre-concert talks and events. In 2017, principles of criminal evidence. He Professor Mera won a City, University explains that since the Human Rights In February 2014, this collaborative of London President’s Award for Act came into force in England and work was also recognised by the Excellence in Learning and Teaching. Wales in 2000, certain rights are Chartered Management Institute (CMI) now directly enforceable in domestic as one of the top five management A new book, co-edited by Professor courts and some of them are relevant articles of 2013. His research has Mera and titled The Routledge to the admissibility of evidence in also been widely cited in national Companion to Screen Music and criminal cases. newspapers and magazines. Sound, explores the ways in which music and sound interact with forms He points to Article 6, The Right to Professor Bhalla’s work on employee of narrative media such as television, a Fair Trial, as the Article that has ownership has provided the evidence video games and film. changed the face of criminal base for the UK Government’s policy evidence. A defendant can argue on promoting employee ownership.
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