Sustainability
Programme Overview
This two-week module will take you on an inter-disciplinary journey to better understand multiple aspects of sustaining life on Earth. You will have the opportunity to engage with leading academics to discuss topics spanning the smallest atom to the largest universe and how these impact on human communities, societies, culture and our future. Experts with specialised knowledge of sustainability from multiple perspectives including climate science; impacts, adaptation and vulnerability; multi-level climate action; community work, climate politics and policies; technological and nature-based mitigation; and the connections between people and planet will guide you on your journey.
Programme Highlights
Why choose this programme?
- Learn from experts across the Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences and the Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences
- Participate in a World Climate Policy Simulation
- Explore key aspects of climate change, how we will adapt and its mitigation
- Consider positive pathways for socio-ecological transformation using creative methods
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2025 Sustainability Programme
Intended Learning Outcomes
- Gain an enhanced understanding of the working of the universe and our solar system.
- Discuss how our atomic level understanding of materials has, and will continue to, impact human development.
- Develop critical insights into society-environment interactions and consequences like the Triple Planetary Crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
- Explore key aspects of climate change, how we will adapt and its mitigation.
- Gain an increased knowledge of the key characteristics of culture and society and how it adapts to change.
- Explore specific technologies which are being developed to provide society with clean energy and understand their interaction with nature.
- Evaluate multi-level approaches to climate action and sustainability, including community-based innovations, climate policies and politics
- Consider positive pathways for socio-ecological transformation using creative methods.
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