School of Humanitarian Studies, Community Development and Sustainability

The professional foundations of humanitarian work: humanitarian principles, needs assessment, programme design, coordination and accountability to affected people. Strong emphasis on doing no harm.

Examines the global goals as practical frameworks for local action: indicators, data, trade-offs and financing. Students build a goal-aligned project using real local data.

Builds the practical leadership skills to mobilise a community around its own priorities: listening, facilitation, representation and conflict handling. Learns from residents, not about them.

Advances the rights and participation of disabled people in community, education and work. Grounded in the social model and the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, with practical inclusion planning.

Teaches human rights as a subject and as a practice: the frameworks, the history, and how to facilitate rights education in schools, communities and organisations without turning it into abstraction.

Works on division and repair: conflict analysis, dialogue facilitation, reconciliation and intercultural cooperation. Designed for practitioners working across community, faith and identity lines.

Practical conservation science and practice: ecology, habitat management, monitoring and community-based conservation. Includes field survey methods and a site management plan.

Focused on preventing extinction: species assessment, threat mitigation, captive breeding ethics and reintroduction. Combines conservation biology with the hard practical decisions of prioritisation.

Improves health at population level through evidence-based promotion, community engagement and behaviour-change design. Covers health inequalities and how to reach the people most at risk.

For people building or running voluntary organisations and international partnerships: governance, volunteer management, funding and ethical partnership. Addresses the real risks of well-intentioned work.