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MRes Sustainability Research
University of Leeds
Faculty of Environment
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,890 - ≈ € 17,330 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Leeds / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Leeds
The MRes Sustainability Research is designed to provide training appropriate to research careers in rapidly changing academic departments, businesses, and national or international institutions. Primarily, by enabling students to produce a substantial piece of independent research, this degree provides a wide-ranging and systematic training in research skills, a deeper understanding of sustainability research and, by providing very useful management skills, gives students the ability to define, plan and complete research projects. Thus, this programme provides students with skills and competences necessary for acceptance as professionally trained researchers in a range of subject areas relating to sustainability.
Excellent Career Prospects
Students graduating from the MRes Sustainability have recently gone on to undertake PhD study, work in environmental consultancy, and follow careers within business, government and the NGO sector.
Contents
Students study core modules in Environment Research Philosophy and Design, and Quantitative and Qualitative Methods. They are also required to specialise in one of the following five areas:
* Business, Environment and Corporate Responsibility – This focuses on the intersection of business activities and environmental systems, providing students with the ability to evaluate environmental programmes within or for business organisations.
* Climate Change - This provides students with a solid foundation in the physical science of climate change, climate change impacts, adaptation to and mitigation of climate change, as well as situating climate change within broader debates on sustainability.
* Environment and Development - This focuses on theoretical and practical issues relating to the goal of sustainable development at a range of scales from the local to the global.
* Ecological Economics - This focuses on socio-economic approaches and tools for assessing the consequences of current production, lifestyle and policy choices, and of sustainable alternatives.
* Environmental Politics and Policy - This provides a critical understanding of the political structures and processes that generate decisions on environmental policy at scales from the global to the local.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Candidates should have an upper second class degree (2.1) or above in a relevant discipline across the social or natural sciences. Equivalent international qualifications are also acceptable.
Mature applicants without a first degree or with a lower degree classification may be considered on the basis of their relevant industry experience and their potential for benefiting from the programme.
Applicants whose first language is not English, or whose degree is not from a UK institution, will need to satisfy language requirements determined by the School.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade C (Score: 60) |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 580 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 94 |
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