Current Developments in Auditing Research is designed to extend disciplinary perspectives in auditing and provide training for research in auditing and assurance services. The course focuses on current areas of research in auditing and related assurance services. The following topics will be covered: some of the main empirical and theoretical developments in auditing research; the main research methods used in auditing research; alternative research methods; the practical implications of current research in auditing; the relationship of research to practice and standard-setting, and statistical tools to use in audit research.

This course is designed for undergraduate students with an interest in biotechnology, drug development, and science communication. The course builds on background knowledge in the biomolecular science field, and covers non-science disciplines related to business, law, and finance. Lectures, tutorials, and case studies focus on current analytical technologies that are enabling the performance of fundamental and applied scientific research and its ultimate commercialisation into products that solve problems in the fields of medicine, agriculture, and environmental management.

The constantly increasing availability of customer data offers great opportunities to gain managerial insights for attracting new customers and developing and maintaining relationships with existing customers. This course will equip you with the knowledge required to use data to inform customer relationship management (CRM) practices in order to increase their effectiveness and efficiency. You will learn how to apply state-of-the-art analytics to manage customers throughout different stages of the customer life cycle. You will also learn how to identify customer segments, forecast customer demand, target customers with marketing initiatives and adopt a value-based CRM approach. Instead of standard two hour lectures, the course uses a combination of short lecturing videos and accompanying materials and short interactive sessions. Through short online videos and accompanying materials you will be able to adapt the learning experience to your needs so that you gain general understanding of typical CRM problems and suitable methods to solve them. During short interactive sessions you will deepen this understanding through case studies, discussions, and quizzes. During lab-based tutorials, you’ll tackle real-world CRM problems exercising hands-on data analytics using R. No prior knowledge of R is needed because this course will go through R step-by-step.

Ever wondered what it's like to do cyber security research? Have a burning desire to solve an interesting security problem of your own?

Ever wondered what it's like to do cyber security research? Have a burning desire to solve an interesting security problem of your own?

This workshop course provides students with a series of practical challenges and applied exercises to apply and integrate the cyber security and computing knowledge and skills they have mastered in their first year of cyber security study.