This module aims to equip students with the critical knowledge and interdisciplinary skills needed to tackle today’s most pressing global challenges in the biosciences with a holistic and ethical perspective by exploring key topics, such as:
Global health challenges, including drug design and development, tissue engineering, and cancer research.
Sustainable development challenges, focusing on sustainability in biosciences research, the use of artificial intelligence, the impacts of climate change, and
Public engagement in science.
Through these topics, learners gain a comprehensive understanding of the intersections between science, sustainability, and ethics.
Students will be taught through seminars, in which experts will discuss a particular area of challenge in the biosciences. There will also be interactive workshops dedicated to the development of skills, in support of the module assignments, and online asynchronous material to support learning.