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Let’s build a sustainable society for an ageing population. A population that lives longer presents global challenges and opportunities that affect every aspect of our lives such as welfare, the environment, health, finance, housing, and employment....

Learn how to evaluate and develop policies for some of the most pressing issues in society! You study and practice ethics and philosophy of science to influence and develop policy on education, healthcare, risk management, finance and research....

You learn to challenge norms and structures in education, organisations, media and politics. Focusses in intersectional gender – gender in interplay with other social categorisation such as ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, age, (dis)ability etc....

Students learn to critically scrutinise, analyse and discuss political, cultural and scientific statements and assertions about children and childhood. Prepares you for work in organisations that deal with living conditions for children. Challenge...

How do ideas spread? How do cities become segregated? The programme prepares you to harness complex data and advanced computational tools to address these and other important social questions. Use statistical and computational methods to understand...

This course presents key concepts, measures, and statistical techniques needed for the analysis of relational, social network data using a computational approach. Network concepts such as centrality and brokerage are discussed, and popular measures...

Longevity symbolizes the success of modernity but is above all negotiated as a menace to societies. Population ageing poses one of the most important long-term individual, institutional and socio-political challenges of our time. It interacts with...

Agent-based modeling is a methodology for analyzing how groups of interacting individuals or other types of agents bring about various macro outcomes. This course provides a detailed introduction to the agent-based modelling (ABM) technique. The...

This course introduces the theories and practices of digital social sciences. The course considers the respective relevance of various digital data sources (sensors, surveys, internet-based media platforms, etc.) for social scientific purposes. In...

Delving into the evolution of climate from ancient epochs to the contemporary Anthropocene era, this course provides an understanding of climate change dynamics and their underlying mechanisms.Explore the consequences of climate change This course...