Online subject tasters: Social sciences
Book your place on one of our upcoming social sciences subject tasters.
Architecture: Communicating Architecture and Design
Date: Monday 12 October 2026
Time: 5pm to 6.15pm
Location: Online
Learn about the importance of communicating architecture to different audiences, and how to solicit/provide feedback in a supportive and inclusive environment.
Economics: Environmental Economics - What is the right amount of pollution?
Date: Tuesday 13 October 2026
Time: 5pm to 6.15pm
Location: Online
The session provides an introduction to Environmental Economics. It is an interactive session that offers an opportunity for students to familiarise themselves with the economic analysis of environmental problems.
Journalism: What would you do? Ethical dilemmas in journalism
Date: Wednesday 14 October 2026
Time: 5pm to 6.30pm
Location: Online
Should celebrities give up their private life as soon as they become famous? Do journalists have a right to report on anything in the public eye? How can journalists report shocking news stories and remain ethical? Join us to debate these questions and more in this interactive session.
Physical Geography: Adapting to changing mountain climates
Date: Thursday 15 October 2026
Time: 5pm to 6.15pm
Location: Online
Join this session to learn more about how climate change is impacting the highest parts of our planet, where we will explore potential solutions for living in the warming mountains.
Politics: The new ‘crisis of masculinity’ and the future of gender politics in Britain.
Date: Monday 19 October 2026
Time: 5pm to 6.30pm
Location: Online
Are we facing a new crisis of masculinity? With greater pushes for gender equality, or even liberation, what place is there for men in contemporary British society? With David Duriesmith, you’ll explore the future of gender politics, and get a feel for what it’s like to study politics and international relations.
Management: Leadership and teamwork - What does the evidence really say?
Date: Tuesday 20 October 2026
Time: 5pm to 6.15pm
Location: Online
Are leaders born or made? Do successful teams avoid conflict? Explore what research really says about leadership and teamwork in this interactive session. Discover how leadership skills develop, why psychological safety matters, and what helps teams perform at their best
Urban Planning: Planning the healthy city
Date: Wednesday 21 October 2026
Time: 5pm to 6.15pm
Location: Online
What is urban studies and planning? Join this session to find out - exploring the role of planning in creating healthier cities and sharing ideas on how planners can make a huge difference to people’s health and wellbeing through creating safe, lively, sustainable cities that prioritise people.
Landscape Architecture: People, Nature and Place - How to read and draw a landscape
Date: Thursday 22 October 2026
Time: 5pm to 6.15pm
Location: Online
In this session we will do a short guided drawing exercise, no specialist drawing experience is needed; just curiosity about outdoor spaces and how they can be understood, represented and improved.
Education and Psychology: Re-thinking labels of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
Date: Tuesday 3 November 2026
Time: 5pm to 6.15pm
Location: Online
This session will look at Special Educational Needs and Disability labels in education through the lens of Critical Psychology and consider what such labels ‘offer’ and what they ‘take away’. As part of the session, we will engage in the ‘to label or not to label’ debate.
Book your place on our Education and Psychology subject taster
Data Science: Large Language Models - How does ChatGPT work anyway?
Date: Wednesday 4 November 2026
Time: 5pm to 6.15pm
Location: Online
Ever wondered how ChatGPT works, or what it has in common with Netflix and Spotify? Come along to this taster session from the Information School and find out how large language models work and where they come from.
Sociology: 50 years after the Grunwick strike - The migrant women who fought back
Date: Monday 9 November 2026
Time: 5pm to 6.15pm
Location: Online
Discover how a group of South Asian women led a historic strike changing British history forever, and see how their fight against workplace unfairness, racism, and migration debates still hits home today.
Digital Media & Society: Digital Health
Date: Tuesday 10 November 2026
Time: 5pm to 6.15pm
Location: Online
Who knows your health better—you after a ChatGPT deep dive, or your doctor? Explore digital health and how tech is changing healthcare and medical authority.
Book your place on our Digital Media & Society subject taster
Human Geography: Could digital technology and the youth vote change the political map?
Date: Wednesday 11 November 2026
Time: 5pm to 6.15pm
Location: Online
Ever wondered how a real university lecture works? In this short session, we will look at real data on youth voting patterns, map out how political parties target different areas, and debate whether digital tools can successfully motivate a brand-new generation of voters to participate in democracy.
Social Sciences: What makes something funny? Studying humour in the social sciences
Date: Thursday 12 November 2026
Time: 5pm to 6.15pm
Location: Online
This interactive session uses jokes, memes and comedy clips to explore what we have to know or believe before we find something funny, and what that might tell us about the society we live in.