MSc Sustainability and Climate Change

The MSc Dissertation enables you to undertake an in-depth individual research project in an area directly linked to your subject area and interests. This will ensure that you undertake scholarly work that further develops an aspect of the taught material and thereby contributes to your personal development and training towards professional practice. This module evidences your transformation from undergraduate to master’s level achievement through the process and production of a recognised research output in your subject area.

Delivery within budget is a key requirement of successful projects and programmes. This module is designed to provide deep understanding of not only the methods of producing financial information throughout the project life-cycle, but also the implications of such information for project and programme outcomes.

This module is a 20 Credit core module of MSc in Sustainability and Climate Change. Students from different academic and professional backgrounds, who may not have prior knowledge about sustainability-related topics will learn about the Innovation required for the transition to a low carbon economy. Net Zero 2050 is a global commitment to achieve net-zero emissions by the next three decades. It requires fundamental changes in different aspects of the economy and relying on innovative technologies e.g., more efficient batteries for electric vehicles. In this module emerging technologies that could help us to achieve net-zero emissions globally will be discussed.

This module develops understanding of programme management epistemology and its relationship to project management. Students develop the expertise necessary for applying programme management methodologies to groups of projects, organisational development initiatives and change management across industry sectors. Furthermore, few projects and programmes are implemented exactly as originally conceived and designed. This reality creates requirement on project and programme managers not only to develop understanding of risks, uncertainty and other change factors and how they affect outcomes but also to acquire the competence in tracking change using appropriate metrics and working out and implementing remedial courses of action that recognise the interests of all stakeholders. This module is designed to develop such attributes and is concerned with: understanding the risks of change; forensic cost and delay analysis, fast-tracking projects, dealing with responsibility for extra cost and delays, etc..

By studying this module you will develop the personal and professional skills required to design and undertake research in your chosen subject area at post graduate level.

The aim of this module is to provide you a well-balanced fully aware sustainability management and development practitioners who are able to analyse and assess the essence of sustainability issues and to formulate the required strategy to implement practical sustainable development solutions in business and society. Sustainable engineering& nbsp;concerns the ability of delivering the product/services in an economically viable, socially responsible and environmentally sustainable way. This requires engineers to make optimum use of energy and materials, to mitigate any associated environmental, social and economic impacts, and to fully embrace concepts such as life cycle analysis, value for money, socially responsible, design for manufacturing and assembling within the design process. Industry requires a practical framework to meet the challenge of achieving sustainable development. This module aims to provide that framework by: providing an overview of methodology, technology and management tools that could be used to narrow the & lsquo;sustainable gap& rsquo;. developing an overall awareness of the real causes of environmental& nbsp;degradation and social responsibility. developing the awareness of the relevant scientific and engineering principles fundamental to the understanding of the problem and solution to this environmental degradation and social responsibility.