The aims of this module are to understand opportunities and constraints associated with urbanisation and simultaneous transitioning to a low-carbon economy by many countries. Using Sustainable Development Goals as a framework, the module will take a 'whole system perspective, discussing technological, social, political, cultural, environmental, and economic aspects of sustainability and resilience in the context of broader urban and development issues.

The aims of the module are to develop students analytical and critical perspectives in the field of sustainable innovation, and to equip them with the knowledge, skills, and competences to be able to apply these within a professional work environment in enterprises and social innovation organisations. The module aims to provide you with an overview of the emerging field of sustainable innovation in a design and management context and on a strategic level involving innovation theories, models, approaches, contextualised in national and international policies and sustainable development.

The aim of this module is to critically examine and understand key theories and debates associated with the field of international development. The module aims to deconstruct the epistemological underpinnings informing dominant theories of development and examine how they translate into the practice of international and sustainable development as seen amongst key stakeholders such as UN agencies, national governments, companies, civil society organisations and social movements.

This module examines the growing critique of development and explores the diversity of thought reflected in the epistemologies of the South. By further assessing how colonial history, patriarchy and capitalism have influenced discourses and practices of development this module seeks to complexify and nuance our understandings of theories of development and actors of change.

The aim of this module is to give students an opportunity to explore grand challenges facing our global society and to propose imaginative solutions to specific challenges in one or more country.

Students will critically reflect on the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals and think about how Loughborough University's Creating Better Futures. Together Strategy might contribute to them.

Students will engage with ideas and approaches to possible solutions from their own programme and gain diverse insights from Loughborough University London's interdisciplinary ecosystem. This will involve solution-oriented thinking and a balance between criticality and possibility, leading to a deep understanding of grand challenges and imagining creative responses to them.