About Us

The Centre for Environmental Strategy (CES) is an internationally-acclaimed centre of excellence on sustainable development.  It takes an inter-disciplinary approach to the analysis of sustainable systems, integrating strong, engineering based approaches with insights from the social sciences to develop action-oriented, policy relevant responses to long-term environmental and social issues.  CES’ leading-edge Masters and Doctoral programmes equip students for careers towards a sustainable future

CES prides itself in providing a friendly and supportive environment in which our internationally and culturally diverse group of students and staff can flourish

Research and Teaching

Research and teaching based around three inter-related themes:
• Sustainable Systems: Tools for Analysis and Design
• Social and Economic Research on Sustainability: Developing Concepts and Themes
• Policy, Strategy and Governance

Doctoral Training

Leading to PhD & EngD:  Excellence in innovative PhD and EngD programmes:
• PhD: research embedded within the wider CES research agenda
• EngD:  the EPSRC’s premier postgraduate research qualification prepares engineers and scientists for industrial career

Taught Programmes

Multi-disciplinary full and part-time Masters programmes challenge students to think systematically and creatively, and act pragmatically. Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (IEMA) accredited

Professional Development

Individual or combinations of modules from the taught programme can be taken as stand alone training, and credits can be accumulated towards Certificate, Diploma or MSc qualifications; this can lead to Associate Membership of IEMA

Training Packages

Tailored training courses for both commercial and public sector organisations can be developed, for further information please contact our centre manager Marilyn Ellis