MSc Cities and Sustainable Futures at Durham University

Engage with the challenges facing cities around the world, from climate change to crises of urban migration, conflict, and livelihoods, and learn about different solutions that aim to create sustainable urban futures. The urban world is transforming. Cities are being reshaped by a series of instabilities and crises.

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences  |  Department: Geography  |  Duration: 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time  |  Study mode: full-time (part-time option)  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Durham, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Your modules will introduce you to the fundamentals of social science research on sustainable transitions and transformations, investigate how global urban life is changing amidst a range of intersecting contemporary crises, including climate change, explore emerging solutions, and leave with detailed knowledge of how the very nature of urbanism is profoundly connected to the challenges of sustainability and responding to climate change. You will also develop practical skills of leadership, public engagement and dissemination alongside designing and executing an extended piece of independent research on a particular urban sustainability problem. Compulsory modules include Sustainable Futures, Global Urban Life, Research Methods for Global Challenges, Cities and Climate Change, Sustainable Transitions and Transformations, Knowledge for Action and Leadership.

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