Applications for the 2021 part-time Master’s and Postgraduate Certificate are now open.Leaders today are making decisions in a world which is more volatile, complex and uncertain than ever before. Many organisations are recognising the need to better understand this changing context and equip themselves to lead positive change.At the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, we focus on building the capacity to effectively tackle the world’s most critical social and environmental challenges. Our part-time graduate programmes are based on a blended approach of short residential workshops and virtual learning. |
Part-time Postgraduate and Master’s courses in sustainable business
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Master of Studies in Sustainability Leadership
Develop leadership capacity to tackle critical sustainability challenges, with practical assignments and a research dissertation
Full Master’s degree, part time over 2 years |
Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Business
Equivalent to 2/3 of a Master’s, part time over 1.5 to 3 years |
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Unrivalled credibility
The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) is a globally influential institute based at the University of Cambridge, with HRH The Prince of Wales as Royal Founding Patron. With more than 30 years’ experience of developing interdisciplinary leadership for a sustainable economy across multinationals, governments and individuals around the world, CISL’s delivery of these part-time courses provides unrivalled sustainability credibility.
Learn to lead transformational change
Study a part-time Master’s-level course to strengthen your leadership skills and embed sustainability in your organisation. These are some of our graduate students leading transformational change:
"I highly recommend the Master’s to any sustainability practitioners looking to be inspired, learn at the heart of where the action is and benefit personally as well as professionally from the experience - at a time when the sector is gaining increasing momentum."
Katerina Fragos, Manager of Sustainability and Climate Change at Procter & Gamble, Canada
"Within my cohort, we had participants from a range of sectors and countries. Having mainly worked in retail and fast-moving consumer companies, I relished sharing professional war stories with peers from automotives, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and finance, and from both in-house practitioner, consultancy, and civil service roles."
Helen McTaggart, Senior Sustainability Manager, Amazon
"Professionally, the courses definitely gave me the credibility and skills to communicate and be a leader on sustainability issues within my working environment. I also felt I had earned the right to talk about them. On a personal level, I became more reflective and considered in the way I approached issues."
Andrew Phillips MA FCA, Rural Director of Finance for the Duchy of Cornwall
"The course equipped me with the knowledge to move to the next level of my career. I had developed the expertise and confidence to use sustainability frameworks and models so fund managers could use that knowledge to ‘do well by doing good."
Elena Vydrine, Head of Portfolio Management and Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Integration at Ryedale
"The individual assignments set throughout the course gave me the opportunity to reflect on the topics that we had learnt and how these could be applied to real world examples. They answered questions that I had asked throughout my career."
Galina Parmenter, PG Diploma student, Project Manager, Global Sustainability, C&A
Read about our graduate students leading transformational change
Sustainability: A decade of change
25 April 2018
25 April 2018 – Wouter van Tol, the Global Head of Corporate Responsibility at Huhtamaki, reflects on a decade of change in the world of sustainability; the big trends, lessons learned and how companies can show leadership to tackle today’s biggest challenges
A lesson in good design: the Master’s in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment
5 March 2018
5 March 2018 – CISL’s Master’s in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE) delivers high-quality interdisciplinary part-time education for built environment professionals from around the world. For over 20 years, the IDBE has been instrumental in developing the skills that help individual professionals learn how to work better together. As the new IDBE course director, Kayla Friedman shares her passion for the built environment, her vision for achieving sustainable and resilient design and how she aims to contribute to the legacy of the course.
17 January 2018
1 February 2018 – Richard Bond, Global Senior Manager for Sustainability at Lavazza Professional (formerly Mars Drinks), describes how studying CISL’s PCSVC improved his communication and leadership skills – and planted an idea that is helping to improve the lives of smallholder farmers in Kenya.
16 January 2018
25 January 2018 – Now a leader at the forefront of the sustainable built environment agenda, award-winning architect Jason Pomeroy discusses how the course allowed him to be more influential in the boardroom and gave him greater appreciation and understanding of different built-environment agendas.
A life-changing experience: the impact of studying CISL’s Master’s in Sustainability Leadership
15 January 2018
15 January 2018 – Minette Bellingan, Director of Global Sourcing at Amazon, reflects on how the course helped her, as a leader, to deepen her sustainability knowledge and build credibility in the workplace.
24 May 2017
25 May 2017 – Alasdair Marks, Corporate Adviser at Business in the Community (BITC) discusses how organisations need to innovate in order to be sustainable. Alasdair recently attended a Sustainable Leadership Lab, focusing on sustainable innovation. These two-day immersion sessions are designed to co-create workable, practical solutions to key current and future constraints to ‘business as usual’ that increase business resilience, promote social development and/or access new markets.
8 May 2017
18 May 2017 – Chris Bellamy, former Product Creation Engineer at Jaguar Landrover was selected by the company to take part in CISL’s PCSVC, which led him to champion sustainability and learn how to embed sustainability principles in the luxury car market.
7 April 2017
12 April 2017 – Adrian Campbell, founder and director of sustainable building design company changebuilding, discusses how the interdisciplinary working techniques and sustainability concepts he was taught to consider on the IDBE became integral to his working practice.
3 April 2017
23 January 2017
23 January 2017 – Elisa Moscolin, Sustainability and CSR Manager, examines how the PCSB helped her to integrate the SDGs into Safaricom’s business framework, helping to transform the lives of its 23 million customers in Africa.
