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Sustainable Business is no longer accepting new applications.
The Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Business is part of CISL's mission to empower individuals and organisations to take leadership to tackle critical global challenges.
More specifically, it aims to provide an academically grounded, highly participatory and applied forum for learning around topical sustainability issues, to help professionals develop:
- a strong foundation in wider global social, environmental and economic trends, and the strategic business case for change;
- the knowledge, skills and confidence to critically engage with a range of strategies and tools for practical action; and
- an ongoing capacity to work with others to co-create solutions to complex problems, and contribute to a wider community of learning and practice.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of Stage 1 of the course, students will have made progress on all of the learning outcomes. By the end of Stage 2, they will have progressed and enhanced their abilities to progress their learning outcomes as detailed below:
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Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business |
Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Business |
Master of Studies in Sustainability Leadership |
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1. The changing global context, the case for a radical shift from current systems and structures, and the role of business |
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LO1A |
Understand… |
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Analyse… |
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Evaluate structural dimensions of… |
…global economic, environmental and social pressures and trends from a multi-disciplinary and systems perspective |
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LO1B |
Articulate… |
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Analyse… |
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Evaluate and establish… |
…the need for a radical shift from current systems and structures to address complex systems-related problems and opportunities |
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LO1C |
Understand… |
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Analyse… |
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Assess and generate… |
…the case for business leading systemic change |
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2. A sustainable future, and the potential synergies, tensions in achieving it |
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LO2A |
Understand… |
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Analyse… |
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Assess… |
… conceptualisations of sustainability and key dimensions of a sustainable future, such as regeneration, inclusion, net zero carbon and resilience
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L02B |
Identify… |
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Analyse… |
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Evaluate and generate responses to address… |
… synergies and tensions between dimensions of a sustainable future
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3. Potential strategies and pathways to leverage change both within and beyond organisations to achieve a sustainable future |
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LO3A |
Identify and apply…
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Analyse and apply… |
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Evaluate and apply a broad and deep range of… |
…research and best practice on levers for change for embedding sustainability within organisations |
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LO3B |
Identify and apply…
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Analyse and apply… |
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Evaluate and apply a broad and deep range of… |
…research and best practice on levers for change beyond organisations for wider system impact |
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LO3C |
Identify and apply…
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Analyse and apply… |
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Evaluate and apply a broad and deep range of… |
…theories of change and innovation at an organisational and system level |
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4. Personal leadership and effective action as an agent of change |
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LO4A |
Identify and demonstrate… |
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Develop… |
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Assess and apply advanced concepts that enhance…
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…the thinking, values and practices that support effective personal leadership |
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LO4B |
Identify and demonstrate… |
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Develop… |
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Generate impact through… |
…personal contribution to effective action as a change agent
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5. Sustainability insight, knowledge and research for specific contexts |
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LO5A |
Identify and apply… |
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Analyse and apply… |
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Evaluate and apply a broader and deeper range of…
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…existing academic and practitioner knowledge on a range of fields and topics to address sustainability challenges and opportunities in specific contexts |
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LO5B |
Generate… |
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Generate further… |
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Generate advanced… |
….sustainability-relevant research in an individual and group context |
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6. Communication and engagement, individually and collaboratively, to advance the sustainability agenda |
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LO6A |
Create…
…entry-level academic and specific organisational contexts |
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Create…
…academic and specific organisational contexts |
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Create…
…an advanced academic level, and organisational contexts |
…clear, concise and logically ordered written and verbal communications appropriate to …
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LO6B |
Contribute to… |
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Contribute further to… |
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Generate… |
…effective and collaborative engagement with peers and wider networks as part of a learning community |
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Continuing
Stage 1 of the Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Business requires completion of the Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business, either organisational or value chains stream. This course is taught part-time over nine months inclusive of two workshops.
Students who successfully complete a Certificate gain 60 CATS points. They can then apply to move on to Stage 2 of the PG Dip. By attending three more workshops (totalling 9 days) and undertaking two assessed assignments students earn a further 60 CATS points and are awarded the PG Dip.
Open Days
The Institute holds 'Meet the Directors' webinars periodically throughout the admissions periods. Please check the CISL events webpages for details of upcoming webinars.
Departments
This course is advertised in the following departments: