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This module is compulsory for every Year 3 student of any Mathematical Sciences degree programme. Its main goal is to provide the student with an opportunity to research an area of mathematics that interests them, while strengthening their transferrable skills and supporting them in growing their CV and achievements that will make them more attractive to employers. As to the latter, there will be specific sessions devoted to various topics related to employability, CV preparation, and other aspects of job hunting. The remainder of this module overview is however about the former, the main part of this module.

This module provides an opportunity to develop skills and knowledge in an area of mathematical science that excites the student and matches their particular strengths. We will provide support to guide the student through their research and report preparation, while giving them the freedom to explore the subject on their own. Support is provided through plenary lectures and through individual (roughly bi-weekly) supervision meetings. The work may involve directed reading of books or original papers in journals and the provision of examples to illustrate particular aspects of a topic. Some topics may also present the opportunity for students to pursue their own investigations, undertake practical work using the computer or working on a project brief from an industry partner.

In summary, the student will learn how to:
(a) Write up a report on their topic: a preliminary report at the end of Semester 1 leading to feedback and advice followed by a completed final report at the end of Semester 2.
(b) Carry out a literature survey appropriate to their topic and how to use a wide variety of sources in an imaginative way, how to give proper credit to the work of others, and in particular what constitutes and how to avoid plagiarism.
(c) Present their work to a small audience. This is great training for communicating a technical subject succinctly, and a skill a student will definitely use after graduating. There is an opportunity to present their work both at the end of Semester 1 and at the end of Semester 2.

‘I have here in my hand a list of 205 names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in that State Department.'

With these words, asserting both the existence of an internal communist menace and the government failure to act against it, Senator Joseph McCarthy thrust himself into the centre of US national politics. His inquisition into communist subversives and spies lasted from 1950 to 1954. But ‘McCarthyism' as a phenomenon was more deeply-rooted, more enduring and much broader in scope than the career and campaigns of a single politician. This module explores the causes, course and effects of McCarthyism writ large, from the end of the Second World War through to the late 1950s.

‘I have here in my hand a list of 205 names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in that State Department.'

With these words, asserting both the existence of an internal communist menace and the government failure to act against it, Senator Joseph McCarthy thrust himself into the centre of US national politics. His inquisition into communist subversives and spies lasted from 1950 to 1954. But ‘McCarthyism' as a phenomenon was more deeply-rooted, more enduring and much broader in scope than the career and campaigns of a single politician. This module explores the causes, course and effects of McCarthyism writ large, from the end of the Second World War through to the late 1950s.

In the contemporary business environment, marketing accountability is constantly increasing in importance. Being able to measure marketing performance and demonstrate how effectively marketing is conducted in organisations has also become a source of performance differentials between companies. This module introduces and discusses key marketing metrics for evaluating marketing effectiveness, providing insights into marketing performance measurement in organisations.

In the contemporary business environment, data-based marketing is constantly increasing in importance. Being able to measure marketing performance and demonstrate how effectively marketing is conducted in organisations has also become a source of performance differentials between companies. This module introduces and discusses key marketing metrics for evaluating marketing effectiveness, providing insights into and teaching useful skills for managing marketing performance in organisations.

In the contemporary business environment, data-based marketing is constantly increasing in importance. Being able to measure marketing performance and demonstrate how effectively marketing is conducted in organisations has also become a source of performance differentials between companies. This module introduces and discusses key marketing metrics for evaluating marketing effectiveness, providing insights into and teaching useful skills for managing marketing performance in organisations.

In the contemporary business environment, marketing accountability is constantly increasing in importance. Being able to measure marketing performance and demonstrate how effectively marketing is conducted in organisations has also become a source of performance differentials between companies. This module introduces and discusses key marketing metrics for evaluating marketing effectiveness, providing insights into marketing performance measurement in organisations.

In the contemporary business environment, data-based marketing is constantly increasing in importance. Being able to measure marketing performance and demonstrate how effectively marketing is conducted in organisations has also become a source of performance differentials between companies. This module introduces and discusses key marketing metrics for evaluating marketing effectiveness, providing insights into and teaching useful skills for managing marketing performance in organisations.

Public opinion matters to governments, to political parties, to pressure groups, to pollsters, and to academics in political science as well as many other areas. It is also interesting. People are more diverse, unpredictable and hard to understand than political parties, trade laws, electoral systems, and so on, and the fickle and elusive nature of public attitudes makes them a challenging but rewarding thing to study.

This module is about how we find out what the public think – about policies, priorities, party leaders, even about each other. Since the sample survey is overwhelmingly the dominant method of measuring public opinion, understanding how to conduct surveys and polls is the basis of the module. It will make it easier to understand the material in other modules that draw on survey data, expand the scope of your Masters dissertation (and potentially future doctoral work), and provide skills of use to more or less the full range of employers.

Measuring public opinion is a three-step process. First, drawing on the previous module in Political Psychology & Electoral Behaviour, we review the concept of public opinion and the question of whether people care and know enough about politics actually to have opinions and to be able to answer survey questions. The second step is to collect the data. We follow the stages of designing and conducting a survey: writing a questionnaire, deciding who should receive it and how, and fielding the survey. Third, we have to process, clean and analyse those data.

The module provides an overview of relevant topics in mechanical power transmission and methodology of vibration analysis for such mechanical assemblies.

The main objective of the module is to learn methods of analysis and design of machines and their components, which are relevant to most industrial applications, including Automotive, Marine and Power Engineering transmissions.

This module is taught together with Mechanical Power Transmission and Vibration (MSc). The two modules are mutually exclusive.