Lancaster University Postgraduate Prospectus Welcome to Lancaster University Welcome to Lancaster University, an international community of scholars. Thank you for considering us for your postgraduate study. For more information please go to www.lancaster.ac.uk Contents 02/03 Contents Why Lancaster? 04 Arts and Social 42 Linguistics and 92 Management 150 Management Learning 178 Essential information 246 Vice-Chancellor’s Sciences English Language Accounting and Finance154 and Leadership Campus map 248 Welcome 06 Applied Social Science 46 Politics, Philosophy 102 Economics 160 Management Science 182 Travel details 250 and Religion Academia 08 Contemporary Arts: 52 Graduate Management 166 Marketing 190 Taught programme 252 Inspiring research 10 Lancaster Institute The Ruskin Library 114 School, including: Organisation, Work 194 index for Contemporary and Research Centre and teaching E-Business 170 and Technology Contacts 256 Arts (LICA) Centre for Science 116 Doctoral Training 12 and Innovation Postgraduate 257 Educational Research 58 Studies Centres Information 168/170 Science and 198 Open Day Study facilities 14 English and 62 Sociology 118 Technology, Technology Creative Writing Study options 16 Management and Computing and 200 European Languages 68 International 18 Health and Medicine 122 Organisational Communications and Cultures community Biomedical and Life 124 Change (ITMOC) Engineering 206 Gender and 74 International students 22 Sciences International 168/171 Lancaster Environment 212 Women’s Studies Business Lancaster life 24 Centre for Training and 130 Centre (LEC) History 78 Development (CETAD) Management 172 Accommodation 26 Mathematics 226 Law 82 Health Research 136 The Lancaster 173/174 Supporting you 28 and Statistics Lancaster Medical 144 MBA(Full-timeand Physics 234 Supporting your future 30 Executive mode) School Psychology 238 Recreation and culture 32 Management 176 Finance and funding 34 Development Division Applying to Lancaster 36 OOcial overseas 38 representatives Our programmes 40 For more information please go to www.lancaster.ac.uk Why Lancaster? 04/05 Why Lancaster? Wearecommittedtoprovidingyouwiththeverybestacademic experience.Ourcampuslocatednearareasofoutstanding naturalbeautyandnearkeycitiesispackedwithsocialand culturalopportunities.What’smoreitisasafeplaceinwhich tolive,learnandtakeyournextsteptoasuccessfulfuture. £400 million 92% Learning We have invested more than £400 million in 92% of research at Lancaster was recognised as transforming our campus including award- being world leading or internationallysigniMcant facilities winning accommodation and research and in the latest Research Assessment Exercise The University’slearning infrastructure includes teaching space (2008). Some keyareas of research are ranked 1,000 PCs, 24 hr Nexible and informal learning top in the UK spaces in the Learning Zone, and the Library with nearlya million print items and access to more than 26,000 electronic journals and Student 300,000 electronic books Live at LICA satisfaction Live at LICA (Lancaster Institute for the Student satisfaction is high, a measure which ContemporaryArts) brings a wealth of contributes to Lancaster’sstrong performance professional theatre, dance, exhibitions and in all major league tables concerts to campus everyyear and our newly opened £20m Sports Centre oLers superb facilities for sport and leisure 50% 50% of our students are members of one of over 150 LUSU aOliated societies supporting their interests and hobbies, around 30 of which Doctoral are international groups Training Centres 1+3 degrees 12,000 Our commitment to DoctoralTraining Centres Several of our courses oLer students the option 12,000 undergraduate and postgraduate represent a new approach to postgraduate study, to take a bridging approach to postgraduate students, including 2,500 international students attracting and nurturing talented and skilled study.Known as Integrated Degrees, or 1+3 from 100 countries, studyat the Lancaster researchers and securing the future supply degrees, theycan be followed at a Masters campus adding to its cultural diversityand the of graduates in speciMc disciplinaryareas level before progressing directlyto PhD level learning experience For more information please go to www.lancaster.ac.uk Vice-Chancellor’s Welcome 06/07 Vice-Chancellor’s Welcome LancasterisundoubtedlyoneoftheUK’stop universities.ConsistentlyrankinghighlyintheUK leaguetables,Lancasterisalsoestablishedasa worldplayerinresearchandteaching,asreBected inourrisinggloballeaguetableposition.Overall, 92%ofresearchatLancasterwasrecognised asbeingofaninternationalstandardinthelatest ResearchAssessmentExercise(2008). We oLer a wide range of research and taught programmes at our beautiful campus close to the historic city of Lancaster. Here you will be taught and supported by people who are leaders in their Meld; encouraged to be entrepreneurial problem solvers; and, beneMt from the high regard in which our alumni are held by employers. The University provides a mutually respectful and friendly environment that is conducive to learning for a culturally and ethnically diverse student population. Students from more than one hundred countries make up a thriving community based around a college system, with a dedicated college for postgraduates. A third of Lancaster’s staL are from overseas and we believe that this cultural mix enhances the student experience at Lancaster. Our community extends far beyond the campus with research, teaching and student exchange partnerships with leading universities and institutions around the world. This oLers our students a global platform for both studies and employment. We look forward to welcoming you to our international community of scholars. Professor Mark E. Smith Vice-Chancellor For more information please go to www.lancaster.ac.uk Academia 08/09 Academia Sinceitsfoundationin1964the Universityhasbuiltareputationbased onresearchquality,teachingexcellence, Arst-classtechnologytransferand businessleadershipadvice. Postgraduate study secures transferable skills, improves your research techniques, develops your conMdence and enhances your employability.We oLer a wide range of Nexible postgraduate degrees and programmes so that you can deepen your subject knowledge, tailor your degree to match your interests, and achieve your future goals. In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in 2008, the University was ranked joint 15th out of 147 UK institutions for its research, while the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) has conMrmed that our teaching and the student learning experience at Lancaster University is excellent. This research and teaching excellence ensures that the world’s leading academics are attracted to the University,which means that our departments are able to oLer innovative and pioneering postgraduate programmes directed by experts at the cutting-edge of their specialist Melds. For more information please go to www.lancaster.ac.uk Academia – Inspiring research and teaching 10/11 Inspiring research and teaching Ourhighqualityresearchfeedsintoourhighqualityteaching Pain medication in europe Thegroup’smodellingofphysiological The group headed by Professor Legal controls over opioid systems within the body has led TonyKrier works to create specialised withnineofoursta@winnersofindividualawardsinthe medications make it very diZcult to clinical studies of hypertension, materials with highly speciXc prestigiousNationalTeachingFellowSchemeorganised to prescribe pain relief drugs in some congestive heart failure and diabetes properties. Using a high vacuum European countries, even when mellitus. Their studies of bodily states growth reactor, layers of atoms are bytheHigherEducationAcademy. they could be of signiXcant beneXt include the depth of anaesthesia, deposited in a precise sequence. in palliative care. response to exercise, and breath The atoms used in this process and holding. Future work planned includes the order in which they are introduced But it’s not just the league tables The research was funded by the By calculating typical greenhouse The International Observatory of clinical studies of Cancer, Autism result in the formation of ‘Quantum and awards that conXrm our European Union as part of the gas emissions associated with the EndofLifeCareatLancasterUniversity and brain dynamics. Dots’, three-dimensional clusters standing, the projects that follow are SOILSERVICE project, which production of 61 diWerent categories is working with a consortium of of atoms which have very small testament to the passion for world involves partners across Europe of food, using supermarket data, academic institutions and public Games as motivators dimensions and unique physical changing research and teaching and investigates conYicting demands the authors were able to assign health organisations through the Research at Lancaster University properties. excellence at the heart of Lancaster of land use, soil biodiversity,and the typical emissions to a number ATOME Project (Access to Opioid into the nature and potential of The work done by Professor Krier University’s ethos. They’re also sustainable delivery of ecosystem of diWerent diets. Medication in Europe) to address this gaming is currently being undertaken and his team is being applied to a taste of what’s to come should goods and services. issue. The project’s focus includes in the School of Computing and improve the eZciency of solar you choose to study here. Improving stroke care legislative, medical and social barriers Communications