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Warwick Environmental Systems Interdisciplinary Centre

Study

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Warwick provides an exciting variety of Undergraduate and Postgraduate opportunities for interdisciplinary study of global environmental change, sustainability and practical solutions to environmental challenges.

Undergraduate Courses

  • Warwick’s Global Sustainable Development undergraduate degrees study major global challenges and practical solutions. Available as a single honours degree or various joint honours degrees including Economics, Life Sciences, Politics, Sociology and Theatre and Performance Studies.

  • Warwick's School of Life Sciences
    BSc Biological Sciences degree provides a flexible, broad-based interdisciplinary degree with opportunities to specialise in ecological and environmental topics. Undergraduate courses.

Postgraduate Taught

Doctoral Training Centres

Warwick hosts doctoral training centres which enable PhD study of the environment.

  • NERC funded CENTA DTP supports earth and environmental sciences, including a focus on climate and environmental sustainability and pollution.
  • BBSRC MIBTP DTP provides opportunities for biosciences focussed research in sustainable agriculture and food, renewable resources and clean growth.
  • Leverhulme TRANSFORM DTP supports research on transdisciplinary sustainability including climate resilience and socio-economic justice, sustainable urbanisation, health and wellbeing, sustainable economies and the food-water-energy nexus.

  • Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP 

    is an accredited Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnership. First established in 2016 and re-accredited in 2023. The DTP offers 17 different training pathways that span various social science disciplines; a large number of postgraduate studentships will be awarded annually across the pathways and institutions, funded by the DTP with contributions from our partner universities.

Climate Literacy Training

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This training will provide a fundamental awareness of how our way of living is having an impact on the planet, and how we can make a difference by reducing those impacts. It will be available to all staff and students.

There are two certificates available:

Classic– entirely asynchronous online training delivered via Moodle, comprising of six units. Estimated 10-15 hours to complete. Assessed by a quiz at the end of the course. This does not need to be completed in one day. The Classic Certificate is a prerequisite for the Gold Certificate.

Gold– in person 2-hour workshop, which will involve discussing communicating about climate change and creating climate action plans. This session will allow you to network with others who have completed the Classic Certificate. Students can sign up hereLink opens in a new window Link opens in a new windowand staff can sign up here.Link opens in a new window

The units which make up the classic course are:

Unit 1: Basic Concepts

Unit 2: Impacts of Climate Change and Climate Justice

Unit 3: Impact across Different Sectors

Unit 4: From International Commitments to Local Action

Unit 5: Individual Action

Unit 6: Communicating Climate Change: Tips and Challenges