ESPS0052 Field Trip during February Reading Week. Only available for students registered on the module.

This module complements the academic study of European politics and policy with practice-led learning. It is taught through a curated programme of moderated conversations with guest speakers who are practitioners in their fields, combined with skills-oriented elements or sessions led by experienced professionals and centred on the production of formats of analysis or communication as they are used in practice. A key part of the module takes place during a three-day study trip to Brussels in Reading Week*. This is complemented by three or four two-hour sessions in London, spread out over the term. 

Students will engage with skilled and experienced professionals at different stages of their careers, who are enlisted from the UCL European Institute’s network. The module is structured around these professionals’ specific respective expertise, and topics will vary from year to year depending on the speaker line up. Policy areas and themes, in any given year, may range for example from climate, sustainability and energy policies, over the UK-EU relationship, EU-China relations, trade negotiations and EU foreign policy to political messaging, opinion making and media reporting.

For all queries in regards to this Field Trip please contact the following :-

j.wagner@ucl.ac.uk

or

 s.sternberg@ucl.ac.uk