Course Aims
The aims of the MSc in Practising Sustainable Development are:
To provide a detailed understanding of the theoretical and policy debates around sustainable development in the Global South. In particular, students will be encouraged to examine the ways in which environmental, social, political and economic factors interrelate at a range of scales to produce particular understandings of ‘sustainable development’ and associated policies and practices. In addition, the programme will provide training in skills needed to research and assess sustainable development, such as research design, project development, environmental monitoring, geographic information systems, remote sensing, participatory methods, project analysis and evaluation.
To have ‘key competencies’ (i.e. skills, but ‘skills’ as practical intelligence rather than in their simplistic form) as the core theme. These key competencies include holistic thinking, ability to manage complexity, change and unpredictability, critical awareness, group working, communication, reflectiveness and empathy. In addition, we aim to develop students’ personal qualities, encompassing self-awareness regarding the student’s learning i.e. ‘learning how to learn’, and the capacity to reflect on, in and for action.
To provide a rigorous programme of research training, in both qualitative and quantitative methods for the analysis of physical and human aspects of sustainable development. The aim to is enable students to carry out independent primary fieldwork and research-based dissertations in less-developed countries and in cross-cultural situations, equip students to undertake further postgraduate study under current Economic and Social Research Council guidelines, and equip students to fulfil professional research roles in sustainable development-related fields, including both governmental and non-governmental development agencies.
Past students of the course are now employed by international development and environment agencies, national policy making and implementing agencies, higher education institutions, private sector natural resource companies and NGOs, as environmental and development workers, activists, teachers and researchers. Many of our alumni are also currently undertaking doctoral programmes in the UK and abroad.
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