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Develop specialist knowledge in contemporary business management and evaluate how businesses operate globally in an increasingly competitive environment through our joint degree with the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS).

Delivered in partnership with the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), Global Sustainable Business Management MSc gives you the specialist knowledge and competence required to support future sustainable business practices on a global scale. Taught on a full-time basis over 18 months, you can expect teaching methods that include lectures, seminars, tutorials and workshops.

Designed in line with the 17 sustainable development goals set out by the United Nations, you will assess different business environments and develop a critical appreciation of management theory and business practice, aiming to achieve sustainability, act ethically and encourage responsible decision-making. You will also identify ways to analyse, develop and manage competitive advantage within the global value chain.

This programme is led by expert academics from both Northumbria University and AUAS and, as a master's student, you will develop your knowledge and research skills and be an active participant in the research-rich environment and agenda that is at the heart of both institutions. Additionally, this programme is covered by the prestigious AACSB accreditation awarded to Newcastle Business School, demonstrating an ongoing commitment to excellence in teaching, research, curriculum development, and learner success.

Applications for Global Sustainable Business Management MSc must be submitted via the Dutch higher education application portal, Studielink. Applications are managed by AUAS who aim to process applications in a time frame of 2 - 6 weeks. For more information, please review our programme FAQs for September 2024 entry.

Course Information

Level of Study
Postgraduate

Mode of Study
18 months Full Time

Department
Newcastle Business School

Start
August 2026

Fees
Fee Information

Modules
Module Information

Global Sustainable Business Management MSc / Discover More

What to expect from our joint degree with AUAS and a guide to applying

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The Application Process / Need Help?

A guide to applying via Studielink and how to get in touch with AUAS

Entry Requirements 2025/26

Standard Entry

Applicants should normally have:

A minimum of a 2:2 honours degree in any subject, or a relevant Dutch undergraduate (WO or HBO bachelor), or substantial experience of working in a business organisation.

International qualifications:

If you have studied a non UK qualification, you can see how your qualifications compare to the standard entry criteria, by selecting the country that you received the qualification in, from our country pages. Visit www.northumbria.ac.uk/yourcountry

English language requirements:

International applicants are required to have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5 with 5.5 in each component (or approved equivalent*).

*The university accepts a large number of UK and International Qualifications in place of IELTS. You can find details of acceptable tests and the required grades you will need in our English Language section. Visit www.northumbria.ac.uk/englishqualifications

Advanced Entry

No advanced entry will be given based on prior experience alone.  Applicants may, however, apply to Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences through their formal admissions procedures.

Fees and Funding 2025/26 Entry

Full UK Fee: TBC

Full International Fee: TBC

Scholarships and Discounts

Click here for AUAS and NU Alumni discount

Click here for UK and EU Member State discount


Scholarships and Discounts

Click here if you are a UK, EU or International Alumni applicant





ADDITIONAL COSTS

Students must provide their own laptops for study on this course. The minimum specifications are: Windows 10 Home 64-bit, Intel Pentium® Gold 4415U processor (2 cores) or Core i5 2 GHz processor, 8Gb RAM , 128 GB SSD. Discounts are available through Dutch resellers using AUAS login details at www.surfspot.nl where, as of October 2019, the price of laptops of this specification vary between 700 - 2,200 euros

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Modules

Module information is indicative and is reviewed annually therefore may be subject to change. Applicants will be informed if there are any changes.

AT7051 -

Sustainable Strategy (30 Credits)

This is a 15 EC (30 UK credits) module delivered in the first semester of the MSc Global Sustainable Business Management. It is developed for those of you who have varying business and management subject experience and reflect some of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (UN)*. The aim of the module is to evaluate sustainable business models by utilising five streams: (i) Responsible Strategy, (ii) Sustainable Marketing, (iii) Socially Responsible Finance, (iv) Corporate Governance and (v) Sustainable Operations. During your learning journey you will evaluate how each of the five streams contributes to the sustainable competitive advantage of a company in a responsible and sustainable way and hence enable the firm to achieve its multi-faceted strategic objectives.





A capstone activity within your learning is the away day ‘Strategy for a Sustainable Future’ offered by the Digital Society School (part of AUAS). In this workshop you’ll learn which skills and knowledge you need to develop as an individual and future manager in order to make a difference taking inspiration by the UN SDGs.





The content of the module comprises five key parts listed below.





Responsible Strategy


SDGs and Business Strategy; Theory of Competitive Advantage in a Sustainable Context; Sustainable Strategic Capabilities; Innovation and Sustainability; Value Creation; Social Entrepreneurship; Triple Bottom Line and Stakeholder Management; Corporate Social Responsibility. (SDGs 8, 9, 11, 12, 17).





Sustainable Marketing


Marketing Planning; Sustainable Marketing and Consumer Behaviour; Multichannel Management and Sustainable Customer Journey; Sustainable Marketing Promotion and Communication. (SDGs 8, 9, 11, 12).





Socially Responsible Finance


Sustainable Financial Investment; Corporate Reporting; SRI and Ethical Tests; Social and Ethical Dimension of Corporate Sustainability. (SDGs 1, 5, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15).





Corporate Governance


Global Business Governance Issues; Principles of Good Governance; The Role and Contest of Board of Directors; Accountability and Alignment of Interest; Local Corporate Government systems. (SDGs 8, 10, 16).





Sustainable Operations


Operations Strategy; Responsible Supply Chains, Lean, Agile and Resilient Supply Chains; Wicked’ problems: Climate Change; Carbon Footprinting; Green Manufacturing. (SDGs 7, 8, 11, 12, 13).








* For information on the sustainable development goals see https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/

More information

AT7052 -

Responsible Leadership (10 Credits)

The first part of the module will encourage you to work on the type of responsible leader that you might become. This module will address an area of leadership development that is often minimized in dominant literature: the relationship between one's identity, social systems, power dynamics, and one's leadership identity. You will demonstrate the ability to work in diverse teams, reflecting on your ethical values and the impact of individual or organisational decision making on social and environmental contexts by exploring contemporary leadership theories. In this module, you will develop new knowledge and skills in leadership and followership and how to apply them to your organisation. You will be challenged to critically reflect and develop relational qualities that you think are necessary to build sustainable relationships and cope with the complex leadership challenges in a global, uncertain and interconnected environment.





The second part of the module is focused on developing your leadership competence and provide you with a toolbox for gaining insight into your strengths and weaknesses as a leader. This will equip you with critical thinking skills to successfully deal with complexity in a globalizing world through introducing you to relevant concepts for becoming a responsible leader. In this part, the focus will be on topics such as: Dilemma Thinking and Reconciliation as an approach to dealing with complexity and tensions between stakeholders in the global business environment; Mindful vs Mindless leadership, Emotional and Cultural Intelligence. You will also learn about the application of neuroscience to leadership development and HR management. Based on your understanding of how the brain works, you will create a series of personal challenges in which you aim to explore in-depth knowledge, cultivate and improve specific aspects of your competence (e.g. resilience, emotional labeling, stress management or trust building).

More information

AT7053 -

Business and Sustainability Analytics (10 Credits)

Throughout this module, you will critically exam and interpret the metrics driving the sustainability debate among various actors ranging from

nations to individual businesses. This module will enable you to understand the United Nation’s sustainable development goals (SDGs)

through a variety of lenses at global, regional, country and enterprise level. You will develop both analytical and solution modelling skills to

support businesses in assessing and quantifying the cost, impact, and performance of their past and present sustainability initiatives - and

anticipate future conditions and requirements - driving them to unlock hidden value and build a more resilient enterprise and sustainable future

for all of us.


As such, the need for professionals capable of being able to structure, analyse and visualise data from myriad sources across a wide

spectrum of sustainability-related factors is increasingly important. The demand for these skills is growing as companies seek to generate the

deep insights needed to guide their sustainability-related initiatives and improve their overall SDG alignment.

More information

AT7054 -

Professional Reporting on Sustainability Issues (10 Credits)

This module aims to develop your academic and professional writing skills necessary to produce a consulting report to a high-level professional standard. It is vital as a future manager who is shaping, promoting and implementing the sustainability agenda to be able to communicate in a clear and articulate manner to the organisation’s internal and external stakeholders the value and challenges of the transition towards a more responsible business model. Employers seeking high-calibre graduates expect strong and effective verbal and oral communication skills in order to disseminate new ideas and initiatives, products and services to their internal and external stakeholders. As part of the transferable skills agenda of the Masters programme, in this module you will be taught by experienced academic tutors and industry professionals and critically review real examples of good and bad practice of corporate reporting and communication.

The module is based on a series of lectures, seminars and workshops where you will have the opportunity to learn and apply theoretical frameworks aimed to build your research, critical thinking and reflective writing skills. You will be provide with the cognitive tools necessary for a criterial review of information provided in the public domain by various types of organisations on their sustainability credentials and performance. As a future manager confident in your approach to communicate effectively to a wide range of audience you will develop management reporting and writing skills based on complex and multi-disciplinary data, information and other sources of secondary data.

Topics covered in the module are decoding and making sense of complex data sets, critical approach to writing, understanding your audience and stakeholder expectations, reflective and authentic writing, and GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards.

More information

AT7055 -

Ethics in Business (10 Credits)

After undertaking this module you will be able to identify the normative presuppositions involved in ethical dialogue and use this in your analysis of ethical issues. This will enable you to better understand conflicts over such issues as executive pay, prompt payment, workplace rights, privacy, positive discrimination and many others. When developing organisation policy, representing the organisation in the media, negotiating agreements and otherwise undertaking work with an ethical dimension, this will enable you to anticipate and plan for objections, to identify weaknesses and contradictions in your interlocutors arguments and your own and thereby enable you to better manage ethical conflict at work. Through this process you will also improve your internal ethical dialogue. Clarifying your own normative presuppositions, values and virtues and better understanding their implications and exclusions will enable you to reflect upon the coherence of your own moral agency.

More information

AT7056 -

Research Methods (10 Credits)

In this module you will learn about a variety of different research methods. This will equip you with the knowledge and practical skills necessary for you to conduct research at Masters' level and prepare you to complete a Masters’ Dissertation. By the end of the module you will know how to apply both quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis techniques. In quantitative techniques you will learn about sampling, questionnaire design, statistical inference, and hypothesis testing while qualitative techniques covered will include methods such as interviewing and focus groups. Analysis methods such as content analysis and thematic analysis will also be covered. In addition, you will gain some understanding of research philosophy (positivism and interpretivism) and Research Ethics and you will be able to write a research proposal to bring these ideas together.

More information

AT7057 -

Circular Economy (20 Credits)

This course provides you with conceptual and practical tools for analysing and evaluating linear business practices and models from a circular economy perspective, and in turn innovating and designing circular economy-based business opportunities. Real-world business practices and case studies will be used throughout the course as you evaluate linear business products and practices. This material will cover national and international issues, cases and organisations. Further, you will conduct team-based projects that concern both domestic and international organisations working in commercial and social sectors.





Mid-way through the module (week 6), you will have the opportunity to interact with Northumbria University students in the UK. You will be joined, both virtually and in person, by postgraduate students from the Design School at Northumbria and will work with them on a Circular Economy Design Sprint. Through this you will learn the ‘theory’ of design thinking, and explore a real-world challenge posed by one, or more, of our partnering organisations. The facilitated sprint will give you an opportunity to learn about design thinking whilst benefitting from a broader diversity of cultural experience and disciplinary expertise. The outputs of the Design Sprint week will form the core of your team-based project, which will span weeks 7-12 and be conducted with a partnering external organisation. On-line and face-to-face project tutorials and coaching will support your learning and assignment preparation during this latter part of the module.





Subject areas include the following:


The differences between linear and circular economies


What value chains look like in circular economies, and how to identify circularity challenges in linear value chains


How the circular economy is a biomimetic system, and how biomimicry is a source of innovation for transitioning to circular economy business models


What circular business models are, and why they are needed to implement the circular economy


The role of systems thinking in understanding and adopting circular business models


The role of technologies in supporting circular economy business practices


What design thinking is, and how it can help companies transition from linear to circular business models

More information

AT7058 -

Organising for Sustainability Transitions (OST) (20 Credits)

This course provides you with conceptual and practical tools for analysing and evaluating collaborative arrangements for sustainability involving private and public sector organizations and civil society. Academic research and real-life examples will be studied through invited keynote speakers, business cases, role-plays and mini-research projects. You will also conduct a team-based project to launch a partnership yourself that addresses an issue of concern (e.g. litter in your neighbourhood). This learning-by-doing component of the course will allow you to experience the role of network orchestrator in governing partnerships and gain the necessary skills and capabilities in orchestration work. On-line and face-to-face project tutorials will support your learning and assignment preparation during this project.





Topics that will covered in this course include the drivers behind collaborative arrangements to address sustainability challenges, the different types of partnerships and collaborations, the different motivations of participating actors and the inherent tensions involved when collaborating with multiple actors from different societal sectors and the need to govern these tensions through network orchestration if the collaboration is to create value and facilitate private value capture.

More information

AT7059 -

Masters Dissertation (60 Credits)

In this module you will gain an in-depth insight business and management research, academic knowledge and business issues around a specific topic; all of which are required to produce a Masters’ Dissertation. By the end of the module you will have written a 15000-word Masters’ Dissertation. The areas included are:





Justification for the choice of topic


In-depth understanding, awareness and critical analysis of existing and up to date literature evidenced by a comprehensive and well-referenced literature review with an extensive reference list


Selection, justification and application of an appropriately rigorous methodology, including limitations of the approach selected


A clear statement of the findings of the research


Critical analysis of the findings


Explicit links between the analysis and the conclusions supported by critical argument


Evidence of original work or thought for example in the form or context of the data collected, analytical process or application of findings.






The topic selection is your choice based on your own individual areas of interest but linked to the Masters’ programme by having a significant consideration of sustainable business as part of its title, consistent with the title of your programme.

More information

Modules

Module information is indicative and is reviewed annually therefore may be subject to change. Applicants will be informed if there are any changes.

AT7051 -

Sustainable Strategy (30 Credits)

This is a 15 EC (30 UK credits) module delivered in the first semester of the MSc Global Sustainable Business Management. It is developed for those of you who have varying business and management subject experience and reflect some of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (UN)*. The aim of the module is to evaluate sustainable business models by utilising five streams: (i) Responsible Strategy, (ii) Sustainable Marketing, (iii) Socially Responsible Finance, (iv) Corporate Governance and (v) Sustainable Operations. During your learning journey you will evaluate how each of the five streams contributes to the sustainable competitive advantage of a company in a responsible and sustainable way and hence enable the firm to achieve its multi-faceted strategic objectives.





A capstone activity within your learning is the away day ‘Strategy for a Sustainable Future’ offered by the Digital Society School (part of AUAS). In this workshop you’ll learn which skills and knowledge you need to develop as an individual and future manager in order to make a difference taking inspiration by the UN SDGs.





The content of the module comprises five key parts listed below.





Responsible Strategy


SDGs and Business Strategy; Theory of Competitive Advantage in a Sustainable Context; Sustainable Strategic Capabilities; Innovation and Sustainability; Value Creation; Social Entrepreneurship; Triple Bottom Line and Stakeholder Management; Corporate Social Responsibility. (SDGs 8, 9, 11, 12, 17).





Sustainable Marketing


Marketing Planning; Sustainable Marketing and Consumer Behaviour; Multichannel Management and Sustainable Customer Journey; Sustainable Marketing Promotion and Communication. (SDGs 8, 9, 11, 12).





Socially Responsible Finance


Sustainable Financial Investment; Corporate Reporting; SRI and Ethical Tests; Social and Ethical Dimension of Corporate Sustainability. (SDGs 1, 5, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15).





Corporate Governance


Global Business Governance Issues; Principles of Good Governance; The Role and Contest of Board of Directors; Accountability and Alignment of Interest; Local Corporate Government systems. (SDGs 8, 10, 16).





Sustainable Operations


Operations Strategy; Responsible Supply Chains, Lean, Agile and Resilient Supply Chains; Wicked’ problems: Climate Change; Carbon Footprinting; Green Manufacturing. (SDGs 7, 8, 11, 12, 13).








* For information on the sustainable development goals see https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/

More information

AT7052 -

Responsible Leadership (10 Credits)

The first part of the module will encourage you to work on the type of responsible leader that you might become. This module will address an area of leadership development that is often minimized in dominant literature: the relationship between one's identity, social systems, power dynamics, and one's leadership identity. You will demonstrate the ability to work in diverse teams, reflecting on your ethical values and the impact of individual or organisational decision making on social and environmental contexts by exploring contemporary leadership theories. In this module, you will develop new knowledge and skills in leadership and followership and how to apply them to your organisation. You will be challenged to critically reflect and develop relational qualities that you think are necessary to build sustainable relationships and cope with the complex leadership challenges in a global, uncertain and interconnected environment.





The second part of the module is focused on developing your leadership competence and provide you with a toolbox for gaining insight into your strengths and weaknesses as a leader. This will equip you with critical thinking skills to successfully deal with complexity in a globalizing world through introducing you to relevant concepts for becoming a responsible leader. In this part, the focus will be on topics such as: Dilemma Thinking and Reconciliation as an approach to dealing with complexity and tensions between stakeholders in the global business environment; Mindful vs Mindless leadership, Emotional and Cultural Intelligence. You will also learn about the application of neuroscience to leadership development and HR management. Based on your understanding of how the brain works, you will create a series of personal challenges in which you aim to explore in-depth knowledge, cultivate and improve specific aspects of your competence (e.g. resilience, emotional labeling, stress management or trust building).

More information

AT7053 -

Business and Sustainability Analytics (10 Credits)

Throughout this module, you will critically exam and interpret the metrics driving the sustainability debate among various actors ranging from

nations to individual businesses. This module will enable you to understand the United Nation’s sustainable development goals (SDGs)

through a variety of lenses at global, regional, country and enterprise level. You will develop both analytical and solution modelling skills to

support businesses in assessing and quantifying the cost, impact, and performance of their past and present sustainability initiatives - and

anticipate future conditions and requirements - driving them to unlock hidden value and build a more resilient enterprise and sustainable future

for all of us.


As such, the need for professionals capable of being able to structure, analyse and visualise data from myriad sources across a wide

spectrum of sustainability-related factors is increasingly important. The demand for these skills is growing as companies seek to generate the

deep insights needed to guide their sustainability-related initiatives and improve their overall SDG alignment.

More information

AT7054 -

Professional Reporting on Sustainability Issues (10 Credits)

This module aims to develop your academic and professional writing skills necessary to produce a consulting report to a high-level professional standard. It is vital as a future manager who is shaping, promoting and implementing the sustainability agenda to be able to communicate in a clear and articulate manner to the organisation’s internal and external stakeholders the value and challenges of the transition towards a more responsible business model. Employers seeking high-calibre graduates expect strong and effective verbal and oral communication skills in order to disseminate new ideas and initiatives, products and services to their internal and external stakeholders. As part of the transferable skills agenda of the Masters programme, in this module you will be taught by experienced academic tutors and industry professionals and critically review real examples of good and bad practice of corporate reporting and communication.

The module is based on a series of lectures, seminars and workshops where you will have the opportunity to learn and apply theoretical frameworks aimed to build your research, critical thinking and reflective writing skills. You will be provide with the cognitive tools necessary for a criterial review of information provided in the public domain by various types of organisations on their sustainability credentials and performance. As a future manager confident in your approach to communicate effectively to a wide range of audience you will develop management reporting and writing skills based on complex and multi-disciplinary data, information and other sources of secondary data.

Topics covered in the module are decoding and making sense of complex data sets, critical approach to writing, understanding your audience and stakeholder expectations, reflective and authentic writing, and GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards.

More information

AT7055 -

Ethics in Business (10 Credits)

After undertaking this module you will be able to identify the normative presuppositions involved in ethical dialogue and use this in your analysis of ethical issues. This will enable you to better understand conflicts over such issues as executive pay, prompt payment, workplace rights, privacy, positive discrimination and many others. When developing organisation policy, representing the organisation in the media, negotiating agreements and otherwise undertaking work with an ethical dimension, this will enable you to anticipate and plan for objections, to identify weaknesses and contradictions in your interlocutors arguments and your own and thereby enable you to better manage ethical conflict at work. Through this process you will also improve your internal ethical dialogue. Clarifying your own normative presuppositions, values and virtues and better understanding their implications and exclusions will enable you to reflect upon the coherence of your own moral agency.

More information

AT7056 -

Research Methods (10 Credits)

In this module you will learn about a variety of different research methods. This will equip you with the knowledge and practical skills necessary for you to conduct research at Masters' level and prepare you to complete a Masters’ Dissertation. By the end of the module you will know how to apply both quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis techniques. In quantitative techniques you will learn about sampling, questionnaire design, statistical inference, and hypothesis testing while qualitative techniques covered will include methods such as interviewing and focus groups. Analysis methods such as content analysis and thematic analysis will also be covered. In addition, you will gain some understanding of research philosophy (positivism and interpretivism) and Research Ethics and you will be able to write a research proposal to bring these ideas together.

More information

AT7057 -

Circular Economy (20 Credits)

This course provides you with conceptual and practical tools for analysing and evaluating linear business practices and models from a circular economy perspective, and in turn innovating and designing circular economy-based business opportunities. Real-world business practices and case studies will be used throughout the course as you evaluate linear business products and practices. This material will cover national and international issues, cases and organisations. Further, you will conduct team-based projects that concern both domestic and international organisations working in commercial and social sectors.





Mid-way through the module (week 6), you will have the opportunity to interact with Northumbria University students in the UK. You will be joined, both virtually and in person, by postgraduate students from the Design School at Northumbria and will work with them on a Circular Economy Design Sprint. Through this you will learn the ‘theory’ of design thinking, and explore a real-world challenge posed by one, or more, of our partnering organisations. The facilitated sprint will give you an opportunity to learn about design thinking whilst benefitting from a broader diversity of cultural experience and disciplinary expertise. The outputs of the Design Sprint week will form the core of your team-based project, which will span weeks 7-12 and be conducted with a partnering external organisation. On-line and face-to-face project tutorials and coaching will support your learning and assignment preparation during this latter part of the module.





Subject areas include the following:


The differences between linear and circular economies


What value chains look like in circular economies, and how to identify circularity challenges in linear value chains


How the circular economy is a biomimetic system, and how biomimicry is a source of innovation for transitioning to circular economy business models


What circular business models are, and why they are needed to implement the circular economy


The role of systems thinking in understanding and adopting circular business models


The role of technologies in supporting circular economy business practices


What design thinking is, and how it can help companies transition from linear to circular business models

More information

AT7058 -

Organising for Sustainability Transitions (OST) (20 Credits)

This course provides you with conceptual and practical tools for analysing and evaluating collaborative arrangements for sustainability involving private and public sector organizations and civil society. Academic research and real-life examples will be studied through invited keynote speakers, business cases, role-plays and mini-research projects. You will also conduct a team-based project to launch a partnership yourself that addresses an issue of concern (e.g. litter in your neighbourhood). This learning-by-doing component of the course will allow you to experience the role of network orchestrator in governing partnerships and gain the necessary skills and capabilities in orchestration work. On-line and face-to-face project tutorials will support your learning and assignment preparation during this project.





Topics that will covered in this course include the drivers behind collaborative arrangements to address sustainability challenges, the different types of partnerships and collaborations, the different motivations of participating actors and the inherent tensions involved when collaborating with multiple actors from different societal sectors and the need to govern these tensions through network orchestration if the collaboration is to create value and facilitate private value capture.

More information

AT7059 -

Masters Dissertation (60 Credits)

In this module you will gain an in-depth insight business and management research, academic knowledge and business issues around a specific topic; all of which are required to produce a Masters’ Dissertation. By the end of the module you will have written a 15000-word Masters’ Dissertation. The areas included are:





Justification for the choice of topic


In-depth understanding, awareness and critical analysis of existing and up to date literature evidenced by a comprehensive and well-referenced literature review with an extensive reference list


Selection, justification and application of an appropriately rigorous methodology, including limitations of the approach selected


A clear statement of the findings of the research


Critical analysis of the findings


Explicit links between the analysis and the conclusions supported by critical argument


Evidence of original work or thought for example in the form or context of the data collected, analytical process or application of findings.






The topic selection is your choice based on your own individual areas of interest but linked to the Masters’ programme by having a significant consideration of sustainable business as part of its title, consistent with the title of your programme.

More information

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Contact time is subject to increase or decrease in line with possible restrictions imposed by the government or the University in the interest of maintaining the health and safety and wellbeing of students, staff, and visitors if this is deemed necessary in future.

 

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