Environmental Sustainability and Green Technology

Keele University

Postgraduate

In Keele

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Keele

  • Start date

    Different dates available

The world is facing increasing environmental threats which are posing severe scientific, social and economic challenges to the human race
These challenges include: the depletion of natural resources, the loss of diversity and the need to develop new forms of energy generation whilst efficiently utilising existing energy sources

Tackling these environmental problems and establishing a sustainable environment requires the adoption of appropriate policies and managerial strategies
The interdisciplinary nature of this postgraduate course provides a broad understanding of these environmental problems whilst embedding the appropriate specialist scientific, managerial and generic skills for a career in the environmental sustainability sector

The course incorporates Keele University’s internationally recognised expertise in research and teaching on environmental issues
It is taught by a team of environmental specialists working in the fields of environmental technologies, biological sciences, chemical science, project management, and environmental policy and politics

You can download a course leaflet with more information here: msc esgt flyer jan16
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Keele University Sustainability Hub
Keele University’s campus has unrivalled potential to form a unique hub for research, development and demonstration of a range of environmental and sustainable technologies

The Keele Sustainability Hub site contains both academic buildings and buildings for technological companies
Renewable energy sources are integrated into these buildings, incorporating:
Solar thermal
Solar PV
Climate control and underfloor heating
Smart lighting systems
Rainwater harvesting
Ground source heat
Bio-fuel woodchip burner
Wind turbine
The main focus of the site is the specialist Hub for Sustainability building

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Location

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Keele (Staffordshire)
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Keele University, ST5 5BG

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About this course

Applicants should have a first degree (UK second-class honours degree or above) or equivalent qualification (generally an aggregate mark of at least 60%). Students without a degree but with relevant professional training will also be considered. Where English is not a first language, proof of English language competence will be required (IELTS 6.5 or equivalent).

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Subjects

  • University
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Project
  • Credit
  • IT Project Management
  • Technology
  • Project Management
  • Politics
  • Green

Course programme

The MSc programme comprises 8 taught 15-credit modules and a 60-credit research project which is undertaken either at Keele University or on placement with an industrial collaborator.
This structure allows students to obtain a postgraduate certificate (60 credits) or a postgraduate diploma (120 credits) depending on the number of modules studied.
The first two modules provide an overview of important environmental technologies and policies relevant to sustainability. Students then choose four from ten optional modules which are arranged within four themes:
Renewable and Sustainable Energy
Biological Challenges and Sustainability
Environmental Politics
Policy and Project Management
Cross theme studies are encouraged. This interdisciplinary knowledge is then applied in a student-centred learning situation. This provides the necessary teamwork and problem-solving skills to formulate strategies to address a range of environmental and sustainability challenges.
The 60-credit research project is preceded by a Research Skills module.
Follow this link to see details of all the modules covered in this course.

Additional information

The Sustainability Hub acts as a focus for the research into, teaching of, and management of sustainability and green technology that takes place at Keele University It’s a means to bring all these different activities together and then to communicate the innovations and implications out to the rest of campus, schools, businesses and the wider community As a student on the MSc in Environmental Sustainability & Green Technology programme a lot of your teaching will take place at the Hub, and you’ll have direct access to these environmental developments first hand The students use the Hub and its facilities as their base - a place to meet and to study - during their year at Keele For more information on the Keele Hub and Keele’s energy plans see here If you’d like to take a look around the Sustainability Hub and/or have an informal chat about the course, please send an email to Karen Babb, the course administrator, on k a babb@keele ac uk Dr Sharon George, Course Director (Watch a video introduction from Dr Sharon George here)

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Environmental Sustainability and Green Technology

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