Study Details: MSc 1 year full-time,
2 years part-time,
3 years part-time
With a rising human population, resource depletion and the current climate change and environment emergency, the need for a complex understanding of sustainability has never been more pressing.
Through interdisciplinary perspectives, you’ll develop the skills and confidence to improve our understanding of the world around us, and work towards developing sustainable solutions to today’s environmental and social problems, drawing on ecology, bio- and geo-science to understand earth-system processes, and the social sciences and humanities to understand societal impacts.
With a range of module options, you can explore your interests and develop your career ambitions. Building your skills in the collation, analysis, synthesis and presentation of interdisciplinary data, you’ll be well placed for a range of jobs or research paths.
Working within an exciting collaboration between our Departments of Archaeology, and Environment and Geography, you’ll gain a fascinating insight into the sustainability of processes that take place over a few years to many thousands of years. Thinking across disciplines to address issues of current and future sustainability is both stimulating and challenging, requiring expertise from a range of subject areas. Our staff and students work together to create interdisciplinary teams, and our wide range of module options and guided independent research opportunities allow you to tailor your studies to your interests and career ambitions.
2:2 or equivalent in a relevant subject such as Archaeology, Anthropology, Biology, Conservation, Ecology, Geography or related fields.
If you don’t have conventional qualifications, but do have appropriate, relevant experience, you are encouraged to apply. We carefully consider each application on its merits.
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Through the development of skills in the collation, analysis, synthesis and presentation of interdisciplinary data, and an ability to work as part of a team, you’ll graduate well-placed for a range of career paths, including progression to a PhD and research careers.
Core modules
Research Skills and Methods
Sustainability I: Definitions of Sustainability and Methods of Assessment
Sustainability II: Understanding Sustainability as Change Through Time
Option modules
You'll then customise your programme by choosing option modules taught in both the Department of Archaeology and the Department of Environment and Geography; these will help you to focus on a particular period, region or specialist area:
Sustainable Environments options
Climate Science and Policy
Data Science for Archaeology
Ecosystem services & conservation
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Health
Environmental Economics
Environmental Management in Practice
GIS and spatial analysis
Landscape Survey and Geophysics
Monitoring, Assessment and Control of Pollution
Plants in Archaeology
Spatial Analysis and Modelling for Flood Risk Management
Sustainability Clinic
Social and Economic Transformations options
Business and Environment
Climate Science and Policy
Data Science for Archaeology
Ecosystem services & conservation
Environmental Economics
Environmental Management in Practice
GIS and spatial analysis
Landscape Survey and Geophysics
Spatial Analysis and Modelling for Flood Risk Management
Sustainability Clinic
Virtual Reality and 3D Modelling
Historical Ecologies options
Archaeologies of Colonialism in the British Atlantic World
Climate Science and Policy
Data Science for Archaeology
Ecosystem services & conservation
Environmental Economics
Environmental Management in Practice
GIS and spatial analysis
Landscape Survey and Geophysics
Medieval Settlement and Communities
Spatial Analysis and Modelling for Flood Risk Management
Sustainability Clinic
Thinking through Material Culture
Sustainable Cultural Heritage options
Building Conservation Projects
Buildings Recording
Contemporary Issues in Museums
Digital Approaches to Archaeology
Digital Creativity
Heritage Principles and Concepts
Histories of Conservation
Presenting Historic Houses
Researching & Analysing Historic Buildings
Sustainable Buildings: Carbon, Retrofit and Reuse
Sustainable Conservation Challenges
Understanding & Interpreting Historic Buildings
Virtual Reality and 3D Modelling
You'll also have the opportunity to choose options from our full module catalogue:
Ancient Biomolecules
Animal Bones for Archaeologists
Applied Economic Methods
Artefacts and Materials Analysis
Becoming Human
Critical Approaches to Archaeological Practice
Death, Burial and Commemoration in the Roman World
Experimental Archaeology
Life and Death in Iron Age Britain and Ireland
Making the Nation
Mesolithic Life and Death
Museums, Audiences & Interpretation
Project Management
Roman Archaeology: Ancient pasts, current issues
Roman Europe
Skeletal Evidence for Health in the Past
The Ancient Celts: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe
The Archaeology of the Human Skeleton
The Archaeology of Roman Religion
The Viking Age: People, Places, Things
Zooarchaeology in Context
Some option modules combinations may not be possible. The option available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.
Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.
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