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Ranked 1st for Architecture in the Research Assessment Exercise 2008. Ranked 1st for Architecture by the Guardian's 2015 University Guide. The MPhil in Architecture and Urban Studies (MAUS) is a one-year full-time programme of advanced socio-political and environmental study on contemporary architecture and the continued development of cities around the world. Students from a variety of academic backgrounds will work in an interdisciplinary environment with design practitioners, environmental specialists, architectural theorists and historians. In such an environment, students will explore a wide range of ideas, research methods and approaches in order to undertake critical and rigorous analysis of issues relating to both architecture and cities.
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This course is designed for graduates with three to five years of relevant experience in biodiversity conservation, who have a specific knowledge of conservation, public policy, business strategy or the voluntary sector anywhere in the world. The unique features of this course are its delivery by a partnership between several university departments and conservation organizations based around Cambridge who form the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, and its engagement with management and leadership. The course will train students to address the challenges of biodiversity conservation in an integrated and interdisciplinary manner, by focusing on an understanding of the root causes of ecosystem change and biodiversity loss. The course will seek to develop leadership potential by promoting students capacity to understand the links among drivers of biodiversity loss and to enable students to think creatively about conservation solutions across organisational, political boundaries and economic sectors.
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Successful environmental policy depends on the ability of its makers to bring together scientific information, analytical thinking and an awareness of the legal, social and political realities of environmental regulation. This course has been designed to provide an intensive training in the relevant economic and legal concepts and techniques to equip you with the tools that will help you successfully design, implement and assess environmental policy in a variety of policy settings.
Research methods
Environmental economics
Environmental law
Climate change policy
Urban and environmental planning
Rural environment
Environmental policy assessment and evaluation
Institutions and development
Housing and regeneration
Spatial economics
Real estate securities, securitisation and investment
Private real estate investment: risk and return
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In the UK moves to devolve government and decision-making to the regional and local levels are generating an increased requirement for well-trained professionals who are capable of providing the knowledge and analytical skills required. Across Europe increased economic and monetary union is emphasising the need for Member States to consider how those involved in urban and regional government can tackle the spatial disparities in economic growth and development that have been such an entrenched feature of the last 20 years.
Research methods
Urban and environmental planning
Spatial economics
Public policy and regeneration
Housing and regeneration
Environmental economics and policy
Environmental law and regulation
Rural environment
Institutions and development
Real estate securities, securitisation and investment
Real estate development
Private real estate investment: risk and return
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The MSc aims to give you a broad appreciation of all aspects of the management of people and institutions in relation to environmental change, you will become analytical in your approach, and a competent and aware decision maker. The MSc emphasises cross-cutting, interdisciplinary approaches to the critical environmental problems of our time.
The Earth system and its fundamental processes
Ecosystems
Human systems and environmental change
Environmental economics and policy
Energy systems and climate mitigation
Sustainable responses to environmental change
Governing the Anthropocene
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This course is grounded in the conviction that responses to political and environmental challenges requires researchers and practitioners trained in the social sciences, with the ability to think flexibly across disciplinary and sectorial boundaries. It will enable you to develop a theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded understanding of the dynamic relations between environment, society and policy.
Nature & Society
Governance, Politics & Policy
Decision Theory
Research Design
Environmental Economics and Policy
Science & Politics
Corporate Environmental Management
Economy & Development
Research Methods & Practice
Analytical Skills in GIS
European Union Institutions
Mobile / Water for Development
African Environments
Forest Governance
New Geographies of Work: Global Connections and Urban Inequalities
Cities, Sustainable Transport, and Mobility
Flood Risk Management
Politics of Oil and Gas
Climate Change Models
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The MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management aims to equip the next generation of water professionals with the blend of skills necessary to make a significant contribution to sustainable water management pathways across competing priorities of water for ecosystems, food, energy, economic growth and human consumption.
Water Science
Water and Society
Water Management
Analytical Skills in GIS
European Union Institutions
Mobile / Water for Development
African Environments
Forest Governance
New Geographies of Work: Global Connections and Urban Inequalities
Cities, Sustainable Transport, and Mobility
Flood Risk Management
Politics of Oil and Gas
Climate Change Models
Food Systems and Food Security
Reconciliation Ecology
Corporate Social and Environment Accountability
Greenlandic Cultures
Resilience Thinking and Community Organising for Environmental Action
Ecological Remote Sensing
Health, Environment, and Development
Sustainable Behaviour Change
Energy and the Environment
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The degree combines the natural and social sciences with engineering and medicine in a truly interdisciplinary manner. It is the route to a successful career in environment and sustainability, as demonstrated by the achievements of around 3,000 alumni who have graduated since 1978. Many of these are internationally recognised leaders in their field, reflecting their training on a world-renowned course.
Ecology in Context
Environmental Pollution and Control
Environmental Policy and Management
Environmental Law
Environmental Economics
Knowledge Theory, Quantitative Skills and Uncertainty
Business and Environment
Environmental Resource Management
Energy Policy
Environmental Analysis and Assessment
Environmental Economics and Policy
Global Environmental Change and Policy
Health and the Global Environment
Pollution Management
Water Management