Module manager: Jenny Hodbod
Email: j.e.hodbod@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
This module is not approved as an Elective
This module is designed to equip students with essential professional skills tailored to the environment, development, and conservation sectors related to sustainability. Through a series of practicals, workshops, and engagement with industry experts, students will develop a robust foundation in practical skills required to tackle complex sustainability challenges. Through individual critical reflection and peer collaboration, students will also develop an awareness of their own strengths and areas for improvement. As such, the module supports learners to develop transferrable skills (such as effective communication to different audiences, project management, stakeholder analysis and engagement) and language for communicating this to future employers.
On completion of this module, students will have acquired:
- An appraisal of appropriate methods, tools and techniques in contemporary sustainability research, policy, and practice.
- A critical understanding of their own personal and professional strengths and areas for improvement.
- An understanding of how to articulate their own personal and professional strengths and areas for improvement in professional contexts.
On completion of this module, students will be able to:
SSLO1: Appraise appropriate methods, tools and techniques related to contemporary sustainability research, policy, and practice.
SSLO2: Critically reflect on their own personal and professional strengths and areas for improvement.
SSLO3: Articulate their own personal and professional strengths and areas for improvement in professional contexts.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
SKLO1: Reflection (Academic Skills): the ability to recognise and express knowledge and understanding and how it relates to personal experience and to demonstrate learning and growth from the experience.
SKLO2: Developing Vision and Purpose (Enterprise Skills): Developing your own aspirations re. careers in environment, development, and/or conservation and identifying ways to achieve these.
SKLO3: Relationship Development (Sustainability Skills): Respects the views and experiences of others; collaborates equitably across disability, gender, ethnicity and other groups. Develops strategies with stakeholders who may have different perspectives and priorities. Explores mutually acceptable solutions to issues that arise from differing interests, perspectives, or needs.
SKLO4: Personal Management (Work Ready Skills): The ability and confidence to manage self and direct, monitor and evaluate own efforts and work, and on own initiative. Awareness of own strengths and development needs and the need for ongoing learning and proactive continuing professional development. Ability to motivate self to set/achieve goals, and to seek/accept feedback. The ability to actively navigate career and networking opportunities.
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seminar | 11 | 3 | 33 |
| Private study hours | 117 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 33 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 150 | ||
Multiple opportunities over the semester:
1. Oral feedback in seminars from teaching staff, guest lecturers, and peers.
2. Reflexive diary – standard format for each week to summarise method, tool, or technique plus describe utility for different careers paths, and reflect on fit with their own career interests, epistemology, skills etc.
- Peer review of two one-page reflexive diary entries in seminar in first half of semester.
3. PPDP - reflection on PPDP drafts in week 10 during seminar
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Coursework | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 29/04/2025
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