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This MSc program in Climate Change, Development and Policy equips students with knowledge and skills to address climate change issues, focusing on equity and justice. Taught jointly by multiple departments, it offers core modules in climate science, social dimensions, and policy-making. Students can customize their studies with optional modules and pursue research placements to enhance their employability in organizations working on climate change solutions.
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Degree Overview:
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our times. To work towards climate solutions, evidence-based policy-making is essential. This MSc is taught jointly by the School of Global Studies, SPRU – Science Policy Research Unit and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). You’ll benefit from diverse practitioners linking what they teach to real-world experiences. You’ll get to consider complex issues from multiple perspectives. There’s a particular emphasis on the implications of climate change and policy responses for equity and justice between – and within – countries.
Objectives:
- Gain a knowledge basis in climate and earth systems science
- Develop the skills to address the role of climate change within the wider set of today’s interconnected development and policy imperatives
- Understand the social, economic and political dimensions of climate change
- Gain the understanding and analytical tools necessary to contribute to evidence-based policy-making.
Outline:
Full-time and part-time study:
- Choose to study this course full time or part time, to fit around your work and personal life.
- Modules for the full-time course are listed below.
Core Modules:
- Autumn teaching:
- Ideas and Concepts in Climate, Development, Economics and Policy
- The Science of Climate Change
- Spring teaching:
- Research Methods and Professional Skills (Geog)
- Summer teaching:
- Options may be grouped and if so, students will be able to choose a set number of options from the selection available in any particular group.
- Spring teaching:
- Climate Change and Energy Policy
- Climate change: Impacts and Adaptation
- Climate Resilient Development
- Low Carbon Development
- Summer teaching:
- Research placements run for up to 12 weeks in the summer term and vacation.
- You can also write your dissertation based on your experience.
- Find an employer
- Draft an application
- Prepare for interviews.
Careers:
- We maintain an active alumni network to support you in your career development.
- International organisations and agencies (including the UN Environment Programme, the UN Development Programme, the World Food Programme, The World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
- National government ministries and public policy (including UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, House of Commons)
- National environment and development agencies across the world (including the German GiZ, the Ministry of the Environment in Japan, the Ministry of Forestry)
- A wide range of private-sector organisations (including energy utilities, the renewables sector, consultancy companies)
- Public-sector organisations, universities and research (including Ecofys, Stockholm Environment Institute, Overseas Development Institute).
Other:
- We understand that deciding where and what to study is a very important decision. We’ll make all reasonable efforts to provide you with the courses, services and facilities described in this prospectus. However, if we need to make material changes, for example due to government or regulatory requirements, or unanticipated staff changes, we’ll let you know as soon as possible. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2024/25. The structure of a small number of courses means that the order of modules or the streams you choose may determine whether modules are core or optional. This means that your core modules or options may differ from what’s shown here.
- Climate change is Code Red for Humanity, and a pressing challenge for science and policy-makers in multiple sectors.
- Overall the experience helped my career development, not only through exposure to world-class teachers and researchers, but also the opportunity to take up research assistant posts at IDS.
