Public Policy, Politics & Security

Advanced Parliamentary Theory and Practice

This module will introduce you to the different functions that these officials will be required to perform, and the wider concerns involved. You’ll find this module particularly useful if you are an official in legislature, especially in Westminster-model systems, whether in the single House of a unicameral legislature or either House of a bicameral equivalent.

Executive Education course

Anti-corruption and the Rule of Law

The module examines the key principles and rules in anti-corruption, situating them within the context of specific jurisdictions with distinct legal, political and social traditions. The rule of law is fundamental to a full appreciation of the importance of these rules.

Executive Education course

Approaches to Policymaking

Making policy requires the agreement and participation of many actors, such as politicians, bureaucrats, agency heads and staff, interest groups representatives, journalists, judges, local government heads, and citizen groups as well as international actors.  In this module, students are introduced to the process of making policy in this complex world.

Executive Education course

Artificial Intelligence in National Security

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a fast moving field which has a longstanding connection with national security. This course will explore developments in AI and will also reflect on the changes that AI is bringing to national security.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course

AUKUS in Context: Security and Strategy Implications for the Indo-Pacific and Globally

This course is focused on both furthering participant understanding of the AUKUS trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, launched in September 2021, and its potential impact on regional and global security. It will examine key aspects of the partnership including the joint development of nuclear submarines and other advanced technologies, providing a basic technical introduction for non-specialists, while also examining some of the challenges that are likely to be encountered in their development. It will also explore the strategic value of the pact for each of the member countries and how AUKUS fits into the regional security architecture in the Indo-Pacific and globally.

Executive Education course

Behavioural Insights and Government Policy

This module provides you with a critical understanding of the core concepts in behavioural science, and how they are applied to public policy. You will learn how new interventions can improve the outcomes of policy quickly and cheaply. You will also be able to explain and critique the way that behavioural science has been applied across the world to improve policy.

Executive Education course

Behavioural Insights for Policy

How can you leverage the lessons from psychology and behavioural economics to improve government policy and practice? How can you redesign policies to increase people’s healthy behaviours – or their attainment in education – or much more besides? In this course, you'll go beyond merely discussing heuristics and biases. You'll delve into the practical aspects of actively driving positive change using behavioural science, guided by experts with decades of hands-on experience in making a real impact.

Executive Education course

Brexit, Covid and the future of Britain

The course aims to explain what Brexit is, why it happened, and what it’s potential implications might be. Clearly, given the impact of COVID19, these implications will be tightly intertwined with those of the pandemic. The course will focus on explaining how Brexit came about, and how these two major factors will impact on the United Kingdom going forward.

Executive Education course

China-West Relations: Dilemmas and Lessons

The rise of China in the Liberal International Order has caused much frenzy and uncertainty across Western civil society. China as a cultural and political entity creates anxiety in those parts of the world where liberalism has dominated for decades if not centuries. Citizens, policy-makers, and military are still catching up on their knowledge of China and cannot confidently deconstruct the complexity of a country that hosts a fifth of humanity and whose foreign interactions have been characterized by much ambiguity. This course seeks to explore those areas of ambiguity where Chinese actions are causing security dilemmas for Western citizens, administrators, policy-makers and the military and to expand knowledge on China but also to learn lessons that can be applied in other areas of foreign/security policy. To achieve this aim, the course is structured around several topics, each of which seeks to address a “dilemma” related to China, by looking at a contemporary “case-study” while leveraging on an “academic concept” to stimulate lateral thinking.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course

Climate Change and Policy

This module will teach you about climate change policymaking challenges, and how to apply climate assessment in a field of UK public policy.

Executive Education course