Online postgraduate scholarships

The programme engages with the most pressing issues and challenges confronting people, communities and institutions including climate change and sustainability. Environmental change, climatic change, clashing beliefs and concurrent economic overconsumption and stagnation require new ways of thinking about development and global governance.

Students will get an opportunity to engage, explore and analyse various processes that have led to climate change through examining the history of international development for instance.

How are development challenges defined and turned into practical strategies and who’s interests are served and who is excluded? Students will be able to take courses that grapple with questions like; are those escaping natural disasters helpful or hurtful, how do climate-induced displacement intertwine with migration and mobility policy?

Ultimately, the programme builds and strengthens critical skills for analysing these development processes and inequities, exploring development issues in a range of different social, historical and political contexts.

The online MSc International Development program enabled me to balance full-time work while pursuing my masters degree. I especially valued the flexibility in course design, which allowed me to apply theoretical knowledge in International Development to areas of personal interest, such as the role of faith-based organisations in Kenya, mental health, education, and community engagement. The courses ultimately inspired me to explore the social and economic impact of the social networks formed by Kenyan students in Canada. Completing the program enhanced my research and analytical skills and gave me a unique perspective on development challenges across different regions. 

Ahmed Hussein - 2024 Scholar 

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MSc International Development

Food security is concerned with the availability, access, and utilisation of safe, nutritious and sustainable food to all, especially vulnerable groups within society.  

The Global Food Security and Nutrition programme provides opportunity for students to develop a knowledge and understanding of different food production systems and their ability to meet the food and nutritional needs of the growing Global Population, in the context of climate change, limited resources and sustainable development.  

Students get to explore the interconnection and interrelationship of different food systems, the environment, biodiversity and climate change, human and planetary health with consideration to the potential of different solutions that address the challenges that exist.

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MSc Global Food Security and Nutrition

Global Challenges program is directly related to sustainability and climate change through its emphasis on a multidisciplinary approach, addressing root causes, understanding irreversible changes from human activity, recognising inequality and social justice, connecting health and the environment, acknowledging the impacts of climate change and natural disasters, and considering overpopulation and poverty—all of which are key components of the sustainability and climate change agenda.

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MSc Global Challenges

The aim of the Carbon Management (online) MSc is to give students the skills to understand and tackle climate change. The programme will be renamed MSc Climate Change Management in 2025/26. This rename will not change the courses’ structure. The content will stay the same.

We draw widely on the latest research in several climate change related fields including from an economic, ecological, business and energy perspective. New approaches for adapting to a warmer world and managing resources sustainably will be examined with an emphasis on interdisciplinary analysis.

Students will develop the skills and knowledge to engage critically with climate change discussions and challenges to help transition toward a resilient, low-carbon future.

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MSc Carbon Management

One Health sits at the interface between human, animal and ecosystem health. As such, it is a fast-evolving subject area, well suited to preparing professionals looking to address the wide range of intractable and complex health challenges of the 21st Century.

Through the programme, you will develop a range of the essential One Health competencies essential for working across disciplines.

The interactions between climate change, loss of biodiversity, disease emergence and other key issues affecting health and sustainability are discussed throughout the programme, making graduates very well placed to work in these fields.

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MSc One Health

The circular economy has an emphasis on resource efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, waste reduction, sustainable consumption and production, integration of renewable energy, closing material loops, and promoting long-term resilience—all crucial aspects of addressing the sustainability and climate challenges we face.

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MSc Circular Economy

The climate emergency brings an urgent awareness of the inter-relationships between land and human development. The pervasive exploitation of natural systems means populations face fundamental challenges for their future. Sustainable Lands and Cities brings together people who are committed to creating, shaping, and conserving sustainable communities.

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MSc Sustainable Lands and Cities

Climate change poses an existential threat to humanity, from which no one is immune.

The Social Justice and Community Action programme positions climate change as a social injustice, explores the emerging discourse of climate justice, and the convergence of action on climate, sustainable development, and social justice.

To do this work, students connect climate justice to ideas of liberty, equality, citizenship, and democracy, and to real world practice contexts located in grassroots activism, sustainable community development, public policy development and implementation, and organisational management.

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MSc Social Justice and Community and Action