Leadership for Sustainable Impact (N1076)

15 credits, Level 6

Autumn teaching

This module invites you to consider your leadership skills. You’ll explore traditional and contemporary models of leadership, focusing on:

  • reimagining leadership for a sustainable future
  • developing the mindset, knowledge, and skills to lead with purpose, creativity, and integrity.

You’ll observe and practice leadership through the development of a sustainability project, covering:

  • contemporary environmental, social and economic challenges
  • a real sustainability issue or concern
  • key concepts to develop an innovative solution.

You’ll receive guidance and feedback from external business partners to help shape your ideas into robust and credible proposals.

The module concludes with a live pitch event, where you’ll present your project to a panel of business leaders and industry experts. This experience will:

  • develop your leadership and employability skills
  • challenge you to engage with sustainability as proactive changemakers
  • enhance your career development.

Teaching

33%: Lecture
67%: Practical (Workshop)

Assessment

100%: Coursework (Essay, Group presentation, Observation)

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 33 hours of contact time and about 117 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Courses

This module is offered on the following courses: