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    1 year full-time, 2-3 years part-time

Course Description

Are you ready to explore some of the world’s most pressing challenges?

Understand the link between the environment, development agendas, and global inequalities for today and the future.

Our MSc Environment and Development enables you to critically evaluate the multiple dimensions of the inter-relationship between development and the environment, with an abiding concern for social and environmental justice.

Our teaching approach encourages you to reflect upon your role as both researchers and professionals in transformations towards social and environmental justice, considering the ethics of engagement in an unequal world.

You will learn about issues that are inherently transboundary, multi-generational and multi-faceted. Our approach to understanding these issues will centre on questions of justice and inequalities.

Some issues you may explore:

  • gender and social equality
  • environmental justice
  • international development and justice
  • critical sustainability
  • climate justice
  • diminishing natural resources
  • biodiversity conservation
  • disaster vulnerability and adaptation

Entry Requirements

A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent.

We may also consider a UK 2:2 honours degree, or its international equivalent, with relevant work experience, a strong personal statement and supportive reference.

Fees

See website for fees

Student Destinations

As a graduate of the MSc Environment and Development, you can seek roles in a variety of sectors, including:

  • international and national development agencies
  • state agencies
  • think tanks
  • non-government organisations (NGOs) and civil society
  • environmental and development consultancies
  • the private sector

Our students are also well-placed to progress to PhD research and academia. For example, recent graduates have progressed to doctoral studies focusing on marine governance in Southeast Asia and conservation practice in East Africa.

Module Details

You must take these courses
Understanding Environment and Development
Development: Principles and Practices
Dissertation – Environment & Development
Professional Skills in Environment & Development

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