MSC in Climate Change Impacts and Sustainability
This ground-breaking inter-disciplinary MSc programme is dedicated to improving graduates understanding of climate change and how it is likely to impact society in developed and developing societies, and the wider environment.
Students will build an interdisciplinary knowledge of the potential impacts of climate change across a variety of key areas, including public health, business and policy responses and technological development, underpinned by a critical understanding of the concept of sustainability as applied to resource and energy use.
The course was developed in response to a lack of interdisciplinary postgraduate courses addressing climate change, and was one of the first taught masters programmes focusing on climate change impacts in the UK Higher Education sector. As such it was designed to meet the changing needs of society by generating graduates able to tackle the challenges presented by climate change, thus preparing them for careers that will likely span the transition to a post-carbon economy.
All PG taught programmes delivered by the Institute for the Environment are accredited by the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM). Our MSc students benefit from free student membership of CIWEM whilst studying on these accredited courses and consideration for transfer to Graduate or full Chartered membership on successful completion.
Programme Director:
Dr. Daniel Pickford, Institute for the Environment, Brunel University
Short courses
Climate Change, an Introduction to (Online) - Environmental Academy
Qualification: N/A
NCFE accredited
Environmental Risk Assessment Training - Environmental Academy
Qualification: N/A
Environmental Risk Assessment - Aztec Technical Services
Qualification: N/A
Postgraduate masters courses – Climate change
Climate Change Geoscience - Birkbeck, University of London
Qualification: MSc
Duration: Two year part-time
Delivery: On site
Climate Change Management - Birkbeck, University of London
Qualification: MSc; PgCert
Duration: Two year part-time (MSc); one year part-time (PgCert)
Delivery: On site
Climate Change Impacts and Sustainability - Brunel University
Qualification: MSc
Duration: One year full-time; two year part-time
Delivery: On site
Climate and Environmental Change - Coventry University
Qualification: MSc
Duration: One year full-time; two year part-time
Delivery: On site
Environmental Dynamics and Climate Change - Swansea University
Qualification: MSc
Duration: One year full-time; two to three year part-time
Delivery: On site
Climate Change Economics and Policy - University of Dundee
Qualification: MSc
Duration: One year full-time
Delivery: On site
Climate Change - University of East Anglia
Qualification: MSc
Duration: One year full-time
Delivery: On site
Sustainability: Climate Change - University of Leeds
Qualification: MSc
Duration: One year full-time
Delivery: On site
Environment and Climate Change - University of Liverpool
Qualification: MSc; PgD
Duration: One year full-time (MSc); eight months full-time (PgD)
Delivery: On site
Climate Change and Development - University of Reading
Qualification: MSc
Duration: One year full-time; two year part-time
Delivery: On site
Climate Change and Sustainable Development - De Montfort University
Qualification: MSc; PgD; PgCert
Duration: One year full-time; two year part-time; three distance learning
Delivery: On site; distance
Climate Change: Impacts and Mitigation - Heriot-Watt University
Qualification: MSc; PgD
Duration: One year full-time (MSc); nine months full-time (PgD)
Delivery: On site
Postgraduate masters courses – Adaptation
Environmental Adaptation and Sustainable Engineering: Business, Economics and Society - University of East London
Qualification: MSc; PgD; PgCert
Duration: One year full-time; two year part-time
Delivery: On site
Environmental Adaptation and Sustainable Engineering - University of East London
Qualification: MSc; PgD; PgCert
Duration: One year full-time; two year part-time
Delivery: On site
Environmental Adaptation and Sustainable Engineering: Resources and Materials - University of East London
Qualification: MSc; PgD; PgCert
Duration: One year full-time; two year part-time
Delivery: On site
Postgraduate masters courses – Risk Management
Climate Change and Risk Management - University of Exeter
Qualification: MSc
Duration: One year full-time; two year part-time
Delivery: On site
Environmental Risk Management - Cranfield University
Qualification: MSc
Duration: One year full-time; two to five year part-time
Delivery: On site
Food and Water Security - Aberystwyth University
Qualification: MSc
Duration: One year full-time; two year part-time
Delivery: On site
Distance learning courses
Climate Change and Sustainable Development - De Montfort University
Qualification: MSc; PgD; PgCert
Duration: Three years
