Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

at University of West London United Kingdom

Do you want to play a big role in helping those affected by with addiction to change their lives?  This course has a strong focus on the Psychology of addiction and could help you turn your interest in this area into a challenging and rewarding career where you can really make a difference.

This particular course of study is based on one of the longest established psychology courses in the UK, which has been accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS) since 1986. Furthermore, this substance abuse degree is the only BSc Psychology course in the UK accredited by both the BPS and the Addiction Professionals Registration Body and Network.

Undertaking this course may open the door to postgraduate study or training to be a specialist addiction counsellor.  As the course is accredited by the BPS, there may be the option of training to be a Counselling Psychologist that specialises in supporting those affected with addiction problems.

The expertise of our teaching staff and the support they are able to give to students are major benefits of the course. You will study with tutors who have extensive backgrounds in the field, including research into alcoholism, binge drinking and other forms of addiction.

Our psychology research facilities include state-of-the-art brain imaging electroencephalogram (EEG), eye tracking equipment and a range of experiment and research software. We provide access and a high standard of support for use of these facilities.

BA (Hons) Fashion Branding and Marketing can teach you important industry skills on how to create effective branding and marketing strategies with a strong emphasis on sustainability and digitalisation in the context of the global fashion, luxury and lifestyle industry, as well as how brands communicate with consumers through innovative ideas, strategic delivery and visual strategies.

On this course, you will learn how to search for consumer insight and future trends, and how to use your findings to determine potential gaps in the market. You will explore how fashion and luxury brands, from high street retailers to luxury, become distinctive and desirable by discovering how they identify their unique selling points to position themselves in the market. This course will give you 360-degree preparation for a career in fashion branding, marketing or its associated business functions or postgraduate study.

You will explore recently updated curriculum that emphasises on contemporary topics such as:

• Sustainable luxury fashion
• Digital luxury
• Diversity in fashion industry
• Omni-channel customer experience
• Social media marketing
• Ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR).

You will also benefit from a range of teaching methods:

• Design thinking for fashion business
• Live projects-workshops with industry partners
• Industry case studies
• Work-based learning
• Studio teaching/practice
• Flexible flipped/blended learning, LinkedIn learning
• Lectures, seminars, presentations
• Group and individual tutorials and feedback
• Peer and self-evaluation

If you would like to experience a career in the global fashion industry, while working on the business side rather than a design position as it requires a critical ability to mix creative flair with strategic business thinking, then this is the course for you!

Would you like a job where no two days are the same? Our degree in International Tourism Management with Foundation Year opens the door to a career in this growing and diverse, global industry. You will gain key business skills and industry knowledge relevant to an exciting range of careers within the sector.

London is one of the world’s leading tourist destinations and home to some of the leading international tourism companies. UWL’s strong links with employers allow us to offer you unique insights and study opportunities. These include lectures, workshops and assessments with leading travel and tourism professionals.

For aspiring and ambitious students willing to work hard, this course provides a solid foundation for your move into management within the tourism sector.

Our courses offer opportunities to discuss issues arising from the Covid crisis and examine solutions from a sector perspective. Our course content is developed with support from a wide network of sector professionals to include changes in the industry.

The Covid pandemic is creating challenges for the industry but is also driving innovation and change across the sector. Join this career-focused course and graduate in a strong position to be a part of the industry’s transformation.

The foundation year course is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to continue onto your Honours degree. You will study a range of subjects that will underpin your future study and also gain valuable experience of university life, with full access to campus facilities. Successful completion of the year allows you to progress straight onto Level 4 of this course.

The MSc Finance and Economics course has been designed to equip you with the knowledge and technical skills required to meet your goals and make a meaningful contribution to the organisations your work for. The various pathways provide you further opportunities to pursue rewarding careers by exploring areas relevant to your chosen subject specialism.

An MSc Finance and Economics degree will equip you with the economics and financial knowledge and skills required to build a strong career in the business and finance sectors. Through specialist modules such as Quantitative Approaches to Economic Analysis, and Economic Theory and practice, you will be able to address strategic challenges faced by business organisations operating in competitive national and global markets.

If you are a Business or Economics graduate and interested in pursuing a career in economics, this course would give you the opportunity to gain more specialist knowledge. When you study economics at the University of West London, you will have direct contact with our course tutors who have extensive theoretical knowledge and industry experience. Their combined expertise will support your professional development throughout the course.

There has never been a better time to start a business in the UK creative industries.

Do you have an idea for a creative industries start-up, such as an innovative lifestyle app? Or do you want to kick-start a creative designer collective? Or ‘simply’ take your fashion brand from your living room to the next level? Then our MA courses in Fashion Entrepreneurship might be for you.

This postgraduate course has been developed to complement the incubation and acceleration of a business in the fashion sector. You will cover market research and analysis, the application of knowledge in entrepreneurship, governance and operations, plus innovation management and negotiation.

From day one, you will have the opportunity to start building networks and interact with experienced industry professionals, which will help you develop the key attributes of a successful professional, such as independence, entrepreneurship and negotiation skills.

Personal tutors, project supervisors and mentors from the creative communications and fashion industry will support you as you work on your own start-up idea, on case studies and live briefs. 

As demand for cyber security professionals in the UK and worldwide continues to surge, this course will prepare you for the challenge of keeping IT environments safe and secure in a world where data is constantly under attack.  

This course will give you a broad understanding of the latest practice and techniques for cyber security systems development and operations.

You will be able to analyse the legal, social, ethical and professional issues involved in the human aspects of cyber security and be guided by the adoption of appropriate professional, ethical and legal practices.

The course is particularly designed to tackle industry needs and job market challenges, and produces informed graduates who are suitably equipped to thrive.

On graduation from this course you will have the critical skills and techniques essential for security-related jobs/roles in a rapidly evolving and diverse environment to appropriately solve typical cyber security problems.

You will also develop the necessary research competencies and build a solid foundation for applied research in cyber security, which will create pathways to further study such as PhD.

This MSc Information Systems course aims to give you a full understanding of how information systems (IS) are designed, constructed and integrated within organisations. Your studies will take into account the large, varied and distributed structures of IS today, with multiple devices in different locations being used to access systems.

We welcome students from different educational and professional backgrounds who have an interest in IS, and you will benefit from our highly supportive culture and extensive industry experience.

MA International Fashion Brand Management: Fashion Visual Merchandising is the first postgraduate course in the UK focusing on fashion visual merchandising. The course is part of our exciting MA International Fashion Brand Management (MA IFBM) suite which offers six innovative pathways:

• MA International Fashion Brand Management: Fashion Visual Merchandising
• MA International Fashion Brand Management: Phygital Luxury Fashion
• MA International Fashion Brand Management: Circular Fashion
• MA International Fashion Brand Management: Fashion Buying & Merchandising
• MA Fashion Brand Management: Fashion Insight & Strategy
• MA International Fashion Brand Management: Fashion PR & Communication

The role of a fashion visual merchandiser combines research into fashion trends with architecture and product design practice. This course will teach you how to create fashion retail experiences that balance brand values and identity with retail space and windows of an assigned store/showroom. You will learn how to shape and reshape a physical and/or online space to effectively convey the brand DNA whilst promoting the commercial success of products.

This pathway puts an emphasis on digital developments and sustainable strategies for fashion visual merchandising. You will be introduced to a rigorous appraisal methodology to analyse fashion brand, retail and visual communication strategies to identify existing gaps and new opportunities. You will then develop concrete visual display projects that consider materials, colours, styling and lighting within a set budget. You will work on live-industry projects that can involve retail make-over, original in-store layouts, window concepts and displays or visual merchandising ideas.

This course enables you to discover how political and social systems in the UK, Europe and beyond are organised, how governments function and how individuals and regimes get and employ power.

You will uncover how political structures emerge out of interactions between people and their values, ideas and institutions.

You will study history and theory to help you understand the present. The course has an emphasis on contemporary global problems with the aim of developing and applying:

• Critical reading
• Writing
• Debating skills.

You will graduate with many indispensable and transferrable skills, including effective communication, negotiation skills, a critical mindset and a solid grasp of the way the world works on the local, national as well as the global stage.

The world of work is increasingly reliant on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills. This Mathematics and Statistics degree is a trusted and relevant qualification designed to meet employers’ needs for skilled STEM graduates.

On the course, you will learn to use a range of computing and analytical skills to solve scientific, engineering and finance problems. Your studies will combine fundamental mathematical and statistical methods with highly sought-after skills in logic, problem solving and numeracy.

You will graduate with the knowledge and technical ability required for a successful career within a diverse range of sectors, from finance to government.

The foundation year course is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to continue onto your Honours degree. You will study a range of subjects that will underpin your future study and also gain valuable experience of university life, with full access to campus facilities. Successful completion of the year allows you to progress straight onto Level 4 of this course.