MRes in Environment, Energy and Resilience

This programme is one of five South West Doctoral Training Centre (SWDTC) interdisciplinary pathways that are delivered in partnership with the Universities of Bath and Exeter.

This pathway explores the interface between security, energy and environment by engaging the latest critical thinking on risk management, critical infrastructure, public regulation, policy studies and the environmental sciences. We aim to train social science researchers who understand the impacts of living with environmental change, the uncertainties of environmental change for energy and food security and the diverse responses needed to foster behaviours, practices and policies that promote sustainability and resilience.

Core units

• Advanced Interdisciplinary Research Design
• Contemporary Debates in Environment, Energy and Resilience

Optional units

These can be taken at either Bristol, Bath or Exeter. Please see our website for details of the units available at the Universities of Bath and Exeter.

Units available at Bristol

Please note: these units may be subject to change.

• Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policy
• Policy Processes and Policy Research
• Contemporary Political and Social Action
• Environmental Law
• Planning Law
• Regulation of Financial Markets and Institutions
• Conflict, Security and Development
• Theories of Development
• Environmental Politics
• Globalisation and Culture
• An Introduction to GIS and Remote Sensing for Environmental Policy and Management
• Climate Change: Science and Impacts
• Environmental Policy and Politics
• After Neoliberalism
• Mobility, Migration and the Environment
• Regulation
• International Human Rights Law
• Company Law
• Corporate Governance

Dissertation

Over the summer you will complete a research based dissertation of up to 15,000 words, individually supervised by a member of staff from the School.