Short online courses

Follow food’s fascinating journey from the farm to your body and explore new food technologies and nutrition around the world.

Explore the night sky, discover how stars are formed and find out about exoplanets, all through the constellation of Orion.

Discover how advances in the field of genomics are transforming healthcare with this online genomics course.

Discover how the transport sector can develop infrastructures that meet the needs of a 21st century population.

Look to the future and develop solutions to pressing global issues by understanding and analysing the SDGs.

Discover how more than ninety per cent of the universe is a mystery, and expand your knowledge of cosmology and astronomy.

Understand the principles of bioenergy and learn how to harness this form of renewable energy to achieve sustainability.

Delve into the complex and challenging environmental issues that we face today, and how we can manage or even solve them.

Discover the diversity of life on earth, the impacts of five past mass extinctions and the prospect of a sixth extinction today.

Explore how innovative marine technologies can tackle the challenges of the sustainable management of marine ecosystems

Explore lead incidents as a public health issue and learn how lead incidents are managed in England and internationally.

Improve your ability to teach maths and logic in computing while building elements of an escape room. Supported by Google.

Discover how artificial intelligence is set to shape the future of tourism, in this introductory tourism management course.

Discover how business can harness the power of big data to make better predictive analysis.

Discover the impacts of engineering failures as you uncover historical cases and the key factors that led to disastrous results.

Find out how the Earth is observed by hundreds of satellites, how they do it, and what this means for the future.