BA (Hons) Housing Studies Bachelor's degree at Leeds Beckett University

Analyse your existing abilities, skills and knowledge by reflecting on your career to date, your aspirations and the relationship of study to work. You will have the opportunity to develop your learning and research skills, including referencing, writing, reading and note-taking.

Examine the origins and contemporary organisation of welfare policy. You will look at what government is trying to achieve through its policies, why it wants to achieve those aims and what the effects are on both tenants and housing organisations.

Learn to understand and develop notions and concepts relating to leadership in professional housing practice. You will link concepts of leadership and management to real world practice and benchmark against Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) ethics in the housing profession.

Examine the impact of global, national and local urban policies on the development of cities and how they are shaped both physically and environmentally.

Further develop your own reflective learning and make connections with learning and the roles of professionals in the workplace.

This module introduces you to the essential legal aspects used by professionals in the built environment and is used as a foundation for modules in the following years.

Develop your ability to formulate policy or strategic solutions to problems associated with housing need. This includes the social problems associated with access to housing, and the implementation and assessment of strategies and policy initiatives within housing organisations, assessments of housing need, homelessness, supported housing and lettings.

Develop an understanding of the theoretical background to the carrying out of research and foster the practical skills to be able to carry out research in the social sciences using a number of different research methods.

Reflect on the arguments for and against spatial planning and discuss a range of theoretical approaches to the role of planning in different contexts.

Evaluate strategies for housing delivery and gain an understanding of the complex relationship between housing markets, economic policy and human wellbeing.

Explore the importance of place and places in our everyday lives. You'll analyse existing built environments and review the urban design principles which can help create good quality sustainable places. You'll also evaluate the qualities of existing places and spaces and the work of key urban design theorists and practitioners.

Building on the knowledge you have gained during the Sustainable Places and City & Society modules, you will explore how changing complex urban problems are addressed in the UK and internationally through policy and practical responses.

Discover the multiple and frequently contested ways of understanding, representing and communicating social space and place. You will examine a number of key issues through the concept of the geographical imagination.

Make use of the research methods and techniques you have learned and the skills you have gained during your course to carry out a sustained piece of research and to write this up in the form of a clearly argued and coherently structured dissertation.

Study key issues in housing delivery, delving behind public and private market interventions to examine the way housing problems are constructed and addressed.

This module provide an introduction to the theories, issues and practice relevant to one of the most pressing issues facing social housing today - that of providing services to diverse communities.

Facilities management is a supporting management function to the core business of an organisation. This module aims to provide you with an understanding of the concepts of core and non-core activities and the interface of physical workplace and people.