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This course is about the study of social life and social relations. It covers advanced training in methods of sociological research and social science epistemology and methodology.

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This MA provides an opportunity to study one of the most exciting fields of interdisciplinary historical research, the period c.1650?1850. Taught with staff in the Department of English Literature, it focuses on the interface between historical and literary approaches to text, culture and society, during a period when the modern world came into being in Britain and North America.

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Explore nineteenth-century society and culture from a variety of geographical and disciplinary perspectives. Taught by staff in History, English and Modern Languages, the topics covered extend across the entire breadth of the ?long nineteenth century?

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Accredited by the Chartered Management InstituteMultinational companies must overcome various challenges to do business across borders. On this course, you'll develop your understanding of those challenges.

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This course uses archaeological method and theory to examine Greco-Roman society in its ecological, economic and cultural context.Core modules draw on a range of techniques and approaches, from landscape archaeology to archaeomaterials and bioarchaeological research. Optional modules allow you to explore the areas that interest you in more detail.Core modules:Research DesignGreeks, Romans and ?Others?

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Researchers in the Volcano Dynamics Group are interested in understanding how volcanoes work and how they affect the environment, wherever they occur, even on other planets. We are therefore an interdisciplinary group of academics, research staff, and PhD students within CEPSAR drawn from the Earth Sciences, Ecosystems and Biodiversity, and Planetary and Space Sciences Disciplines.

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We have a wide range of research in theoretical and computational physics, including condensed matter theory, modelling of electron scattering from molecules and molecular clusters, theory of cold atom quantum simulators and finally biophysics. Our team of PhD students is carrying out research at the forefront of these fields.

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Using theoretical ideas from Science and Technology Studies (STS), the anthropology of expert knowledge, Foucauldian genealogical approaches, political economy, and Bourdieusian field analysis, the work on The Social Life of Methods (SLOM) poses a series of key interdisciplinary questions such as: How are social science methods implicated in the constitution of the individual and the organisation, and the administration and transformation of social and economic life? How/why do different kinds of method succeed and fail?

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This broad topic encompasses work in several distinct disciplines; ethnomusicology; sociology; social history; social psychology; human geography; education; and marketing. We particularly encourage work that combines approaches and crosses the boundaries between disciplines.We welcome applications in areas which correspond to current staff research interests.

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Our research into tectonics and mountain building research covers the processes and mechanisms relating to how mountains form on the surface of our planet and how the continental crust deforms from the macroscale to the microscale. In particular our research focuses on mountain belts that form during continent-continent collision, such as the modern Himalayas and Caucasus and the ancient Caledonides.

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