BA (Hons)

Housing Studies

Teaching & Learning

 

What you'll learn

Analyse your existing abilities, skills and knowledge by reflecting on your career to date, your aspirations and the relationship of study to work. You will have the opportunity to develop your learning and research skills, including referencing, writing, reading and note-taking.
Examine the impact of global, national and local urban policies on the development of cities and how they are shaped both physically and environmentally.
Examine the origins and contemporary organisation of welfare policy. You will look at what government is trying to achieve through its policies, why it wants to achieve those aims and what the effects are on both tenants and housing organisations.
Further develop your own reflective learning and make connections with learning and the roles of professionals in the workplace.
Learn to understand and develop notions and concepts relating to leadership in professional housing practice. You will link concepts of leadership and management to real world practice and benchmark against Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) ethics in the housing profession.
This module introduces you to the essential legal aspects used by professionals in the built environment and is used as a foundation for modules in the following years.
Analyse your existing abilities, skills and knowledge by reflecting on your career to date, your aspirations and the relationship of study to work. You will have the opportunity to develop your learning and research skills, including referencing, writing, reading and note-taking.
Examine the impact of global, national and local urban policies on the development of cities and how they are shaped both physically and environmentally.
Examine the origins and contemporary organisation of welfare policy. You will look at what government is trying to achieve through its policies, why it wants to achieve those aims and what the effects are on both tenants and housing organisations.
Further develop your own reflective learning and make connections with learning and the roles of professionals in the workplace.
Learn to understand and develop notions and concepts relating to leadership in professional housing practice. You will link concepts of leadership and management to real world practice and benchmark against Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) ethics in the housing profession.
This module introduces you to the essential legal aspects used by professionals in the built environment and is used as a foundation for modules in the following years.

What you'll learn

Explore the urban and semi-natural environment of a neighbourhood and develop your ability to communicate your designs effectively.
Evaluate strategies for housing delivery and gain an understanding of the complex relationship between housing markets, economic policy and human wellbeing.
Develop an understanding of the theoretical background to the carrying out of research and foster the practical skills to be able to carry out research in the social sciences using a number of different research methods.
Explore the urban and semi-natural environment of a neighbourhood and develop your ability to communicate your designs effectively.
Evaluate strategies for housing delivery and gain an understanding of the complex relationship between housing markets, economic policy and human wellbeing.
Develop an understanding of the theoretical background to the carrying out of research and foster the practical skills to be able to carry out research in the social sciences using a number of different research methods.

Option modules may include

Enhance your professional skills on a ten-week work placement. Working with a local employer, you will develop your graduate attributes and reflect on the transferable skills you will need for your chosen career.
The Hong Kong housing market is dominated by the interrelationship between government decision making and public policy and the private market are complex and pivotal. You will learn to understand how decisions affect day-to-day lives and the housing profession through projects notionally coined as urban regeneration or revitalisation.
Gain a holistic understanding of the crucial processes, mechanisms and regulatory frameworks utilised in the provision of a safe environment from the perspective of fire and its associated hazards.
Building on the knowledge you have gained during the Sustainable Places and City & Society modules, you will explore how changing complex urban problems are addressed in the UK and internationally through policy and practical responses.
Develop your ability to formulate policy or strategic solutions to problems associated with housing need. This includes the social problems associated with access to housing, and the implementation and assessment of strategies and policy initiatives within housing organisations, assessments of housing need, homelessness, supported housing and lettings.
Explore the concepts of justice and equality, both locally and globally, by examining the structures, processes and policies that generate and sustain patterns of spatial segregation and social exclusion at various scales, including city, neighbourhood and community.
Enhance your professional skills on a ten-week work placement. Working with a local employer, you will develop your graduate attributes and reflect on the transferable skills you will need for your chosen career.
The Hong Kong housing market is dominated by the interrelationship between government decision making and public policy and the private market are complex and pivotal. You will learn to understand how decisions affect day-to-day lives and the housing profession through projects notionally coined as urban regeneration or revitalisation.
Gain a holistic understanding of the crucial processes, mechanisms and regulatory frameworks utilised in the provision of a safe environment from the perspective of fire and its associated hazards.
Building on the knowledge you have gained during the Sustainable Places and City & Society modules, you will explore how changing complex urban problems are addressed in the UK and internationally through policy and practical responses.
Develop your ability to formulate policy or strategic solutions to problems associated with housing need. This includes the social problems associated with access to housing, and the implementation and assessment of strategies and policy initiatives within housing organisations, assessments of housing need, homelessness, supported housing and lettings.
Explore the concepts of justice and equality, both locally and globally, by examining the structures, processes and policies that generate and sustain patterns of spatial segregation and social exclusion at various scales, including city, neighbourhood and community.

What you'll learn

Analyse the notion of professionalism within the housing discipline. This module provides an opportunity to reflect upon ethics, equal opportunities and the CIH Code of Conduct in a real-world setting.
Study key issues in housing delivery, delving behind public and private market interventions to examine the way housing problems are constructed and addressed.
Make use of the research methods and techniques you have learned and the skills you have gained during your course to carry out a sustained piece of research and to write this up in the form of a clearly argued and coherently structured dissertation.
Analyse the notion of professionalism within the housing discipline. This module provides an opportunity to reflect upon ethics, equal opportunities and the CIH Code of Conduct in a real-world setting.
Study key issues in housing delivery, delving behind public and private market interventions to examine the way housing problems are constructed and addressed.
Make use of the research methods and techniques you have learned and the skills you have gained during your course to carry out a sustained piece of research and to write this up in the form of a clearly argued and coherently structured dissertation.

Option modules may include

Discover the multiple and frequently contested ways of understanding, representing and communicating social space and place. You will examine a number of key issues through the concept of the geographical imagination.
This module provide an introduction to the theories, issues and practice relevant to one of the most pressing issues facing social housing today - that of providing services to diverse communities.
Facilities management is a supporting management function to the core business of an organisation. This module aims to provide you with an understanding of the concepts of core and non-core activities and the interface of physical workplace and people.
Gain an understanding of the distinctive and dynamic nature of urban and metropolitan development in the East Asia/Pacific Asia region. You will examine the relative influences of forces of globalisation and local cultural and other factors shaping the built environment of the region’s major urban areas.
Discover the multiple and frequently contested ways of understanding, representing and communicating social space and place. You will examine a number of key issues through the concept of the geographical imagination.
This module provide an introduction to the theories, issues and practice relevant to one of the most pressing issues facing social housing today - that of providing services to diverse communities.
Facilities management is a supporting management function to the core business of an organisation. This module aims to provide you with an understanding of the concepts of core and non-core activities and the interface of physical workplace and people.
Gain an understanding of the distinctive and dynamic nature of urban and metropolitan development in the East Asia/Pacific Asia region. You will examine the relative influences of forces of globalisation and local cultural and other factors shaping the built environment of the region’s major urban areas.