Online Courses

The Indo-Pacific: Culture and Decision-Making

The Indo-Pacific is emerging as one of the key regions in which international politics are redefined. It encompasses some of the world’s fastest growing economies, top world military powers, and rich cultures. Its economic dynamism rests on a maritime geography that has favoured connectivity and interdependence; its political make-up is defined by outstanding territorial disputes, unresolved Cold War issues, and an increasingly entrenched Sino-American structural competition; and its cultural traditions are both similar and different to Western traditions. This particular course focuses on what is meant by the term "culture", how do people embedded in different cultures think, make judgements and decisions and when, why, and how culture matters in engagement with the Indo-Pacific region.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course

The low FODMAP diet – Update Course (2022/2023)

This course is an update for dietitians who have received training on a low FODMAP course or who regularly see patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders and use the low FODMAP diet.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course

Understanding Multi-level Government

This module is designed to enable civil servants to know and understand that there are different political parties and policy objectives governing in all parts of the UK and the pressures this puts on intergovernmental relations, but also appreciate the need for stronger intergovernmental working across all four administrations. The

Executive Education course

Understanding Political Leadership

This module seeks to expand the thinking of students about leadership in the political context. It analyses select situations and leadership experiences to understand how the associated leadership processes shaped the outcomes for the target societies.

Executive Education course

User-Centred Digital Government

This module seeks to explain what the user-centred digital government movement is and why it matters to public servants and policy makers. It explores why that movement came about, what it believes, and what it was responding to.

Executive Education course

Wargaming and Strategy

The purpose of this course is to consider how wargaming might be used to analyse and develop strategy. As such, it is a course about two different but linked issues. First, we must consider what strategy is, how it flows from one’s understanding of victory, and how it is influenced by the choices of others. Second, in applying wargaming to strategy, we must first unpack wargaming as method by understanding its history, its unique features, and how it can be best applied to questions of strategic analysis. Over the course of five lessons, students will receive introductions into strategic theory and the method of wargaming. By the end of the course students should be well positioned to be able to evaluate if, when, and how wargaming might address some of the challenges organizations and individuals face today.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course

Working Internationally

Building on theory, interviews with practitioners, and case studies from around the world, this module addresses the growing concerns in international coordination through supra-national organizations and cultural issues in cross-border work.

Executive Education course