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MA Leadership for Sustainability
Given current economic uncertainities and instability in financial markets, attention to sustainability faces additional challenges - but also potential opportunities. Constrained economic times could offer more incentive to take action for sustainability, given the potential mutual benefits that can be realised. For example, recent rises in oil and gas prices draws attention to our dependence on finite energy sources.
This part-time executive Masters programme will address these and other pressing issues that affect participants' abilities to take leadership for sustainability, through the collaboratively agreed aspects of its learning design and curriculum.
The MA's highly participative learning approach is based on action research. Participants’ engagement in learning sets and in an online networked learning community are key elements of the programme. The programme includes two online workshops and six residential workshops. Participants develop their own practice throughout the programme.
Who is the programme for?
If you are already convinced of the need to develop a more sustainable society and are taking, or are seeking to take, leadership of some kind to contribute to this change, the MA in Leadership for Sustainability is designed with you in mind.
The course will appeal to a diverse range of people interested in exchanging perspectives.
If you are already working in a corporate responsibility or sustainability role you will find the programme useful in enhancing your effectiveness in leading change. And it will promote your capacity to be critically questioning about your activities. Or, you may choose to participate in the programme because you want to develop your career in these directions.
The MA provides:
- Exploration of theories and practices relating to leadership and change for sustainability.
- Engagement in intellectual debates that reflect core issues and dilemmas.
- Development of research skills and understanding.
- Engagement with systemic thinking and issues of power, politics and diversity applied to change for sustainability.
- Opportunities to experiment with leadership for sustainability both through participation in the programme and in work and professional lives.
- A learning community of colleagues.
Participative approaches based in critical inquiry and action research underpin the programme. This learning model provides a forum into which multi-dimensional examples relating to issues of change for sustainability will be introduced, to be explored in depth. These will include discussions led by researchers from a range of disciplines and case examples of organisational and systemic issues. Sessions will provide both substantive material relating to sustainability and opportunities to explore issues of leadership and change.
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The MA's co-directors, Professor Judi Marshall and Dr Carole Elliott, discuss some of the key aspects of the programme. These include: what we mean by leadership; what the course offers; its participative, action research-based educational approach; working in a virtual learning environment; the degree's emphasis on developing practice alongside understanding; using the MA as career development; and more.
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