Develop your climate policy career, with a practically focused MPA course that prepares graduates and professionals to work at the intersection of climate challenges, development, system innovation and sustainability.
You’ll develop a keen understanding of the latest inclusive and sustainable tools and technologies, and how we can apply them to our energy systems, transport, infrastructures and economies, to identify and repair dysfunction and deliver radical new solutions.
You’ll learn how to examine these innovations through the lens of social, environmental and economic sustainability frameworks such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and how to transpose innovation policies and strategies for different countries and socio-economic regions.
As a graduate you’ll be able to map the socio-technical aspects of complex systems such as energy, transport, healthcare or sanitation, and contribute to informed decisions affecting stakeholders technologies and future strategies.
You’ll have extensive research skills including diverse evidence gathering and synthesis techniques enabling you apply theories of change for organisations and governments at the local, national or international level.
You’ll also have a comprehensive toolkit of policymaking skills, including policy writing, participatory elicitation and facilitation methods to ensure climate mitigation policies are aligned to the communities and contexts they serve.
You’ll become a skilled communicator, capable of bridging the gap between engineers, technologists and policymakers to achieve consensus on complex challenges.
Most importantly, you’ll be able to innovate through policy combining evidence with creativity to envision alternative climate futures.
Graduates from this master’s degree typically go on to secure or enhance climate and innovation policy-focused roles across a wide-range of relevant contexts, with more than 81% of graduates in relevant full-time employment or further education 15 months after leaving. ( Graduate Outcomes survey carried out by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), looking at the destinations of graduates in the 2018–2024 cohorts).