25 Short courses offered by the university

This International Conflict Analysis and Resolution course at King's College London focuses on building the conceptual tools necessary for conflict analysis as well as providing insights into the process of conflict resolution and mediation.

Students in this Approaches to Policymaking course King's College London at will be introduced to the policy process: how public policies are decided upon and implemented.

This Financial Management for Policymakers course at King's College London seeks to contextualise the informational environment in which accounting, particularly management accounting, is conducted to assist policy decision-makers to make well-informed decisions as they plan, control and monitor their organisations.

In this Learning What Works course at King's College London, we will explore the role of evaluation in policymaking and provide an overview of the tools of evaluation. You will have the opportunity to critique existing evaluations as well as design an evaluation of your own.

There are several key economic concepts that policymakers need to be able to understand and apply during the policy process, including devising policy, critiquing policy proposals and evaluating policy. The Economic Analysis of Public Policy at King's College London equips you with the key tools and methodologies needed to focus these concepts on their real-world application.

The Climate Change and Policy course at King's College London will focus on the essentials of climate science, impacts and adaptation to climate change, and international climate policy and achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions globally.

This Advanced Parliamentary Theory and Practice course at King's College London will introduce you to the different functions that officials will be required to perform, and the wider concerns involved.

This Communications, Media and Public Policy course at King's College London teaches a mix of practical tools and approaches that can be employed in order to become a more effective policy communicator.

This Anti-corruption and the Rule of Law course at King's College London is aimed at civil servants, officials, and practitioners who may have responsibilities relating either to anti-corruption and bribery directly, or who may be exposed to risk in this area.  

The An Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods course at King's College London will give an overview and introduction to qualitative research methods, including individual interviews, focus group discussions, observation, ethical issues, content and thematic analysis, NVivo and rigour in qualitative research.

This Text Mining Analysis for Public Policy course at King's College London will explore how to gather and mine texts for policy analysis and evaluation.

This Understanding Political Leadership course at King's College London seeks to expand the thinking of students about leadership in the political context.

This Working Internationally course at King's College London will provide you with an overview of the challenges in working internationally and asks: “What are the global governance issues we face today?”

This Embracing Uncertainty - Policymaking in Turbulent Times course at King's College London provides insights into complexity theory, explains the key principles and mechanisms of complex dynamic systems, and discusses how these can be harnessed in public policy.

This Behavioural Insights and Government Policy course at King's College London provides you with a critical understanding of the core concepts in behavioural science, and how they are applied to public policy.

This International Trade Policy course at King's College London is aimed at the increasing plurality of government officials, private sector managers and civil society campaigners, to whose work, trade policy has growing relevance.

The iData - The Markets and Politics of Personalisation course at King's College London will give you the opportunity to explore some of the fundamental disruptions brought about by big data industries based on the unprecedented quantification of the self and the algorithmic practices through which it circulates and is processed.

This User-Centred Digital Government course at King's College London seeks to explain what the user-centred digital government movement is and why it matters to public servants and policy makers. It explores why that movement came about, what it believes, and what it was responding to.

This Public Sector Leadership course at King's College London provides participants with knowledge and a comprehensive understanding of leadership in the public sector setting.

This Regulatory Policy and Politics course at King's College London provides an introduction to the regulatory process. As the study of regulation is interdisciplinary, we read and critically assess seminal texts in the fields of political science, law, economics, and sociology.