Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

01Departments

• 01

  Department of Psychology

  Mind and behaviour, in people and communities.

  3 disciplinesOne subject of the Academy, with its fields, courses and communities of practice.0 coursesA set of lessons with an outline, written and reviewed by peers; it carries no academic credit.

• 02

  Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Demography

  Societies, cultures and populations.

  4 disciplines0 courses

• 03

  Department of Diaspora and Migration Studies

  Displacement, settlement and the ties that cross borders.

  3 disciplines3 courses

• 04

  Department of Media, Communication and Information

  Journalism, media, libraries and archives.

  4 disciplines2 courses

02Disciplines

Department of Psychology 3

• ProposedA proposal only, which exists once the governing body the charter names decides.

  Psychology

  How people think, feel and behave, from childhood to old age.

  0 courses4 fieldsA narrower topic within a discipline.

• Proposed

  Cross-cultural and migration psychology

  How migration, discrimination and trauma passed down families shape identity and wellbeing.

  0 courses4 fields

• Proposed

  Cognitive science

  Perception, memory and language in the mind, including life with two or three languages.

  0 courses3 fields

Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Demography 4

• Proposed

  Sociology

  Sociology studies social groups, institutions and inequality.

  0 courses4 fields

• Proposed

  Social and cultural anthropology

  Kinship, ritual, festival and everyday life, studied through long fieldwork and respect.

  0 courses5 fields

• Proposed

  Demography

  Births, deaths and migration. Few censuses ask about ethnicity or language, so estimates of Kurdish numbers vary widely.

  0 courses4 fields

• Proposed

  Gender studies

  How gender shapes law, work and power, and the history of women’s movements in the region.

  0 courses4 fields

Department of Diaspora and Migration Studies 3

• Open

  Migration and refugee studies

  Forced displacement, settlement, return and statelessness, from the camps of the region to European cities.

  1 course5 fields

• Open

  Diaspora studies

  Communities that live apart from a homeland and keep ties to it, and the politics of those ties.

  1 course4 fields

• Open

  Social research methods and ethics

  Collecting evidence about people fairly and safely, when those people may be at risk.

  1 course5 fields

Department of Media, Communication and Information 4

• Proposed

  Journalism

  Gathering, checking and reporting news, and keeping journalists safe, in the region and in exile.

  0 courses4 fields

• Open

  Media and information literacy

  Judging sources, spotting manipulation and sharing information with care, in every Kurdish variety.

  1 course4 fields

• Proposed

  Media and communication studies

  How satellite television, radio and online platforms shape Kurdish public life.

  0 courses4 fields

• Open

  Library, archival and information studies

  Keeping records safe and findable, from community archives to digitised periodicals.

  1 course4 fields

03Classification

Where the faculty sits in the international lists of fields.

04Courses

A completion recordA record of what was studied and assessed in a course or pathway; it is not a certificate or a qualification. shows what was studied and assessed. It is not a certificate or a qualification.

05Communities of practice

• Community of practice: Indicators and Methods

  A proposed community of practiceA group of practitioners of one field who work together on courses, standards and toolkits; the charter calls it a Standards area. on indicators, figures and the methods behind them.

  Proposed

• Community of practice: Peer Review

  A proposed community of practice that reviews the network’s content and outputs before use.

  Proposed

• Community of practice: Culture, Heritage and Archives

  A proposed community of practice on heritage records, oral history and archives.

  Proposed