MSc Climate Change: Environment, Science and Policy

Our Climate Change: Environment, Science and Policy MSc interdisciplinary programme provides an opportunity to explore key issues relating to climate and environmental change at an advanced level. You will explore a wide range of critical topics, focusing on human influences on the Earth’s climate and environment, and their societal consequences. This MSc is unique because it’s flexible and allows you to study climate change from a policy or science pathway - and choose from an interdisciplinary list of optional modules to deepen your knowledge. You can choose to take the science pathway and concentrate your studies on the physical science aspects, such as forecasting climate change and its impacts. If you opt for the policy pathway, you’ll focus on the societal aspects, such as policymaking, adaptation and communication. This flexibility allows you to specialise while still studying modules from the other pathway. By drawing on social, natural, and environmental science approaches, you’ll learn how to critically analyse and interpret scientific evidence related to climate change, its distributional impacts across the globe, and the responses of nation-states, businesses, and other key stakeholders. You’ll join an alumni network boasting graduates working in consultancy, NGOs, governments and further academic research. This Climate Change: Environment, Science and Policy MSc is unique because it approaches climate change from both a science and policy perspective, which means you';ll learn more about the relationship between applied physical science and its policy-relevance. Our MSc is the only degree programme where you can choose to study climate change with a science or policy perspective or opt for a more comprehensive understanding of both disciplines. With a wide range of modules to choose from, this Climate Change: Environment, Science and Policy MSc is a rare opportunity to get truly interdisciplinary teaching from world-leading researchers. You';ll complete compulsory modules including the Fundamentals of Climate Change and Researching Climate Change, before choosing from modules covering Policy, Environmental Sciences and more, to develop your interdisciplinary outlook. You';ll get the chance to learn from researchers who have, and are currently, contributing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as well as staff providing expert advice to the UK Government on pressing policy matters. You';ll also have the freedom to pick optional modules from across all our Geography programmes, including the Internship (Environment and Society) module, where students gain hands-on experience of formulating and implementing actions on behalf of an environmental actor. Students can also take one module outside Geography such as the Energy Transitions and Green Technology. You';ll be taught by physical and social scientists, and gain an in-depth understanding of the scientific and policy basis of a series of global environmental change issues.