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This innovative and highly-respected course will provide you with an important commodity for todays employer; an interdisciplinary education. The MSc Sustainability and Management is taught jointly by the Department of Geography, which is recognised for expertise in the research and teaching of environmental and social sustainability and the School of Management, which has a long tradition of research into sustainable businesses and corporate social responsibility.
The course will enable you to understand connectivities beyond the borders of just one discipline and you will develop the skills to communicate with experts across a variety of backgrounds. By the end of the year you will have acquired the knowledge and skills to help you become an expert in sustainability for leading companies, governmental agencies and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs).
Sustainability and Governance
This course will equip students with a detailed understanding of the development of sustainable development as a discourse. Students will explore key sustainability issues such as climate change, globalisation, and human responses with an emphasis on the emergence of environmental governance as a means to pursue sustainability
Sustainability and Society
You will develop a detailed understanding of key social / environmental relationships incorporating contemporary issues in the geographies of sustainability. These will include risk society, sustainable cities, the role of the media, ecotourism and the impacts of corporate sector activities on the environment.
Corporate Social Responsibility: Conceptual Foundations
This course will provide students with an understanding of how Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) fits into strategy and operations of an organisation. The unit will introduce students to the tensions and trade-offs involved in the adoption of CSR by a firm in a competitive economy. Students will then explore current ideas within CSR scholarship and practice so that they will be able to stay abreast of theoretical advances and emerging strategic issues.
Corporate Social Responsibility: Applications and Tools
You will develop critical understanding and analytical skills in relation to the design and implementation of a CSR strategy. Students will examines how CSR interacts with, affects and is affected by other elements in the overall corporate strategy. They will develop an appreciation for both international differences in approaches to CSR and differences in the needs of key international and external stakeholders. Students will also learn to understand the problems involved in implementing a CSR programme and the culture change necessary to achieve a successful CSR firm strategy for companies.
Community Volunteer Project
You will undertake an independent volunteer project which will give you practical experience in gaining sustainability related work experience in a non-for profit organisation. The project will enhance your employability whilst and provide an opportunity to gain practical experience of third sector organisational objectives, cultures and practices.
Dissertation Preparation and Research Methods
The Research methods unit will help prepare you for your dissertation. You will recognise and critically evaluate approaches to management research and the assumptions upon which they are based. This will equip you to make justified choices as to appropriate quantitative/qualitative research methods for data collection and subsequent analysis. You will then be able to conduct research, and evaluate primary and secondary data sources in a systematic and critically reflective manner.
You will also evaluate potential limitations to research investigation and applications and develop a coherent and appropriate research proposal, recognising the ethical implications of research investigations and their impact upon findings.
Dissertation
You will analyse a sustainability or CSR issue in depth. By the end of the dissertation, you will be able to plan and manage a project, define aims and objectives, identify appropriate data sources and collection methods, be aware of and deal with potential pitfalls, execute a dissertation plan, and construct an effective argument.
Elective course units:
MN5455 Global Business Strategy
This course explores the strategic challenges facing firms in the global economy and the ways in which firms can achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. Some of the topics that the course focuses on are industry competition, resources and capabilities, foreign market entry, strategic alliances, diversifications and acquisitions, and global competitive dynamics. The course examines a number of case studies along the way.
Practices of Sustainability in Developing Areas
You will explore sustainability implications in the specific context of developing countries, such as those arising from water usage, land degradation and desertification, and those relating to tourism.
On completion of the course graduates will have:
* Gained insight and experience in the fields of sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility and be well prepared to work in a number of related areas.
* Developed a thorough understanding of graduate research, enabling them to pursue further study at postgraduate level.
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