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MLA719
Debating Sustainability

This module grounds students in the fundamental and critical debates around sustainability, at scales both small and large. By exploring and debating the various viewpoints on a range of sustainability issues, students will hone their academic skills, preparing them for modules ahead, whilst growing in their understanding of the expectations of Masters’ level study in the UK.

MLA720
Researching Sustainability

This module enables learners to evaluate and explore quantitative and qualitative methods in sustainability research, notably survey, ethnographic and participatory action research, introductory GIS, and rudimentary statistics, foregrounding UN SDGs 11 and 17. It achieves this through lectures, the analysis of existing research case studies and application of research methods to a proposed community-based case study.

MLA727
Research Project

This module is research driven, focussing upon the analysis of data to answer a unique and specific research question. Students will be able to develop ideas and methods practiced elsewhere in the course. They will report their findings as if writing for an academic journal.

MLA721
Moving with the times: Using sport to address development goals

This module enables learners to examine how sport can be used to address development goals such as gender equality, environmental sustainability, poverty alleviation and conflict resolution, foregrounding the UN SDGs and the field of Sport for Development (SDP). It achieves this through lectures, the analysis of fieldwork case studies, and students’ development of a proposal for a community-based project in small groups.

MLA722
A Cultural Lens on Sustainability

This module enables learners to explore the role of culture in sustainability, focusing on UN SDG 11 and the interaction between globalised and local cultural products. A range of artforms, including visual art, music and dance, are explored in diverse contexts. Students will engage with lectures and analyse fieldwork case studies.

MLA723
Hungry for Change - Food and sustainability

Food lies at the heart of many of the UN SDGs. Whether it is the patterns of food resources, shifting due to climate change, or the ways in which societies express themselves through food and drink, food taps into the fundamental need to survive. This module will focus on how the natural world has been shaped to meet human needs, and how it continues to drive change to a sustainable future.

MLA724
Water’s Sustainable Future

Water is a key natural resource; it sustains us, is crucial to farming and manufacturing, and it is used to transport goods around the globe. Important cultural assets are created around water, and what lives within it. The module investigates the function and health of the hydrosphere, how that has been managed and altered by humans, and how, ultimately, its conservation is at the heart of sustainable resource management

MLA725
Developing Sustainable Energy

The energy sector is one of the most contentious when it comes to issues of sustainability. Modern life relies on consistent and cheap energy, yet this comes at an environmental price, and arguably a societal gain. Balancing the needs of humans and the planet is most keenly felt in discussions of energy and it is these current interactions between the sector and the UN SDGs where this module focuses

MLA726
Managing Waste for a Sustainable Future

This module concentrates upon the role of waste as a challenge to sustainable business practice. It critiques current waste management strategies and investigates a number of environmentally important waste streams. Concepts such as industrial ecology, systems thinking, and life cycle assessment will be introduced as potential solutions to these issues.