Politics & Economics Courses in London & Online

Join this one-day introductory course designed to provide you with a foundational understanding of key political concepts, global power dynamics, and contemporary international issues.

A friendly introduction to how the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are challenged by the climate crisis, and what this means for people and the planet.

From traditional speechwriting to social media campaigning, this course examines the various methods of communication used by modern politicians to get their ideas across to the British public.

This course explores key contemporary movements for racial and gender justice in Latin America, including the feminist and women's movement, Indigenous peoples' land defense, and the anti-racist struggles of Afro-descendant communities.

Agriculture continues to be a very important instrument for employment creation, poverty reduction and sustainable development in the 21st century. Asian economic giants like India and China have a significant proportion of their population still dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods. This course aims to understand and analyze various aspects of the agricultural sector including changing agrarian policies by examining the rural landscapes of India and China.

Dr Reshmi Banerjee is a political scientist with specialization in food security, agricultural policies and cross-border studies on North East India/Myanmar. She was previously a visiting research fellow in the King’s India Institute (KII), King’s College, London, an academic visitor in the Asian Studies Centre (Programme on Modern Burmese Studies) in St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, a research associate in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, a post-doctoral fellow in the department of international relations, University of Indonesia (UI) and a researcher in the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jakarta. Reshmi has been a Visiting Professor in Jamia Millia Islamia, a fellow in the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies (RGICS) and a visiting research fellow in the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi. She has taught in Delhi University and in the University of Indonesia (UI). She has a Masters, M.Phil and Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi and a Masters in Museum Cultures from Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author/editor of several books and journal articles. Her research focus areas are: conflict, identity politics and institutional interventions. 

Has the Global North prospered socially and economically at the expense of people in the Global South?

Who controls the future of AI? Explore the politics, power and global inequalities behind artificial intelligence and debate what’s at stake for democracy, human rights and society in a rapidly changing world.

The late 1940s witnessed the birth of several newly independent countries in South Asia against the backdrop of Partition, mass-scale migration and communal violence. The transition from a long-lasting colonial rule to freedom was not an easy one as it was fraught with multiple and complex challenges. History/Past continues to impact the present in this region. The aim is to not only reflect on the critical juncture of independence in South Asian history but also understand the region through the distinctive experiences of the countries concerned in the post-independence period.