Sustainability, Development, and the Environment MPhil PhD

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Overview

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PhD

  • MPhil PhD Sustainability, Development, and the Environment, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time
    • Pound 6020 per year
  • MPhil PhD Sustainability, Development, and the Environment, home applicant, part time

    • Home Applicant
    • Part time
    • Pound 3010 per year
  • MPhil PhD Sustainability, Development, and the Environment, international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time
    • Pound 16100 per year
  • MPhil PhD Sustainability, Development, and the Environment, international applicant, part time

    • International Applicant
    • Part time
    • Pound 8050 per year

PhD

  • MPhil PhD Sustainability, Development, and the Environment, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time
    • Pound 6020 per year
  • MPhil PhD Sustainability, Development, and the Environment, home applicant, part time

    • Home Applicant
    • Part time
    • Pound 3010 per year
  • MPhil PhD Sustainability, Development, and the Environment, international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time
    • Pound 16100 per year
  • MPhil PhD Sustainability, Development, and the Environment, international applicant, part time

    • International Applicant
    • Part time
    • Pound 8050 per year

PhD

  • MPhil PhD Sustainability, Development, and the Environment, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time
    • Pound 6020 per year
  • MPhil PhD Sustainability, Development, and the Environment, home applicant, part time

    • Home Applicant
    • Part time
    • Pound 3010 per year
  • MPhil PhD Sustainability, Development, and the Environment, international applicant, full time

    • International Applicant
    • Full time
    • Pound 16100 per year
  • MPhil PhD Sustainability, Development, and the Environment, international applicant, part time

    • International Applicant
    • Part time
    • Pound 8050 per year

What makes this course different

Learn from experts

You’ll be taught by our world-class sustainability experts

Multidisciplinary

Our research integrates multidisciplinary expertise across a number of topics related to sustainability.

Sustainability Research Institute

Focused on three sub-themes, the Sustainability Research Institute has expert teams researching green infrastructure, resource management, and sustainable societies.

Course modules

Your future career

Your future career

Explore the different career options you can pursue with this degree and see the median salaries of the sector on our Career Coach portal.

How we support your career ambitions

We offer dedicated careers support, further opportunities to thrive, such as volunteering and industry networking. our courses are created in collaboration with employers and industry to ensure they accurately reflect the real-life practices of your future career and provide you with the essential skills needed. You can focus on building interpersonal skills through group work and benefit from our investment in the latest cutting edge technologies and facilities.

Career Zone

Our dedicated and award-winning team provide you with careers and employability resources, including:

  • Online jobs board for internships, placements, graduate opportunities, flexible part-time work.
  • Mentoring programmes for insight with industry experts 
  • 1-2-1 career coaching services 
  • Careers workshops and employer events 
  • Learning pathways to gain new skills and industry insight

Mental Wealth programme

Our Professional Fitness and Mental Wealth programme which issues you with a Careers Passport to track the skills you’ve mastered. Some of these are externally validated by corporations like Amazon and Microsoft.

Our Mental Wealth programme

We are careers first

Our teaching methods and geographical location put us right up top

  • Enterprise and entrepreneurship support 
  • We are ranked 6th for graduate start-ups 
  • Networking and visits to leading organisations 
  • Support in starting a new business, freelancing and self-employment 
  • London on our doorstep

What you'll learn

A PhD is an original and distinct contribution to the knowledge of the field of study. It is often essential for those wishing to follow an academic or research career in organisations. PhD research can be carried out in all subject areas.

How you'll learn

All postgraduate research students are supervised by at least two research-active staff. Your supervisors will support your programme of research through regular meetings and reviews.

The PhD course usually takes a minimum of 36 months (full-time) or 60 months (part-time) to complete. 

At the end of your PhD, you will be required to submit a thesis summarising your research. You will then have to undergo an oral examination (a viva) on your thesis.

How you will be assessed

Your research proposal

Research proposals give us a better understanding of the area you want to study for a PhD.

You don't have to follow a predetermined structure when writing your proposal. Still, it is a good idea to include a title that describes the aims and scope of your research and information on how your ideas fit in with the research interests of UEL.

Other essential elements include relevant academic literature, how your research will advance knowledge in this area, and a possible methodology. You should also have a timescale for your research.

To find out more about how to write your research proposal, see our research proposal guidance.

Campus and facilities

Docklands Campus, London, E16 2RD

Who teaches this course

This course is delivered by Sustainability Research Institute

If you’re proposing your own PhD project, you will need to identify and contact potential SRI supervisors whose research interests align with your own. You will also need to discuss your research idea before you apply. To do this, you will need to explore which academic staff are open to supervising students.