This interdisciplinary programme offers a unique opportunity to study the theory and practice of sustainable environmental management.

 
It covers a diverse range of sustainability and environmental issues spanning the natural and social sciences, allowing you to develop a broad knowledge base while also specialising in specific fields of environmental management.

 

Its interactive and practically focused approach provides a rigorous training in the legal, political and ethical dimensions of sustainability. The wide range of options also enables students to specialise in specific aspects of sustainable environmental management. Class-based teaching is combined with a range of fieldwork activities to provide an excellent foundation for professional careers in environmental consultancies, specialist environmental agencies, local and central government, research and a range of other organisations in the public and private sector. 

The UPSU SSTAR Awards have been organised by students with the support of the Students' Union to reward the many excellent University staff members and dedicated course reps we have here at Plymouth University.

 

 

"I travelled to South America, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the Far East, which was when I witnessed first hand how the changes to the environment are affecting the world. This was when I realised what I wanted to do with my life. When all my friends were on the beach in Thailand. I was in an internet café researching my options. I started looking at courses relating to environmental change and sustainability. When I returned to the UK, I volunteered as a climate change campaigner for Friends of the Earth in Birmingham before taking up a place on the MSc at Plymouth.

"I studied for my MSc in Sustainable Environmental Management at Plymouth University. I thoroughly enjoyed the flexibility of the course, which enabled me to study such diverse subjects as environmental law and ethics, marine policy and Geographical Information Systems. I chose to do my research dissertation on strategic environmental assessment and gained a considerable amount of experience developing my own ideas and concepts and making contacts. I subsequently gained employment as Biodiversity Action Plan Officer with Scottish Natural Heritage, largely on the basis of my knowledge of international environmental policy and my dissertation topic. I am now working for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as a Senior Policy Officer with responsibility for Biodiversity Action Plans.

 

I thoroughly recommend the programme - apart from the academic side of things, there was also a great postgraduate social life!"

 

Senior Policy Officer, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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