This postgraduate diploma provides a thorough grounding in the key theories, global approaches and challenges that are shaping contemporary development. You'll explore the major development issues of our times such as environmental sustainability, socio-economic security, migration, technological change, and the politics of development. In the process, you'll have opportunities to tailor your learning around development issues of particular interest to you, enhancing your skills of independent learning and investigation.

In this postgraduate certificate you'll explore historical and contemporary theories about development and discuss the impact of these theories and tools in making a difference on the ground. It will give you an understanding of global development and to encourage critical reflections on ways to engage with development issues from local through to global levels. Case studies are used that will enable you to see how they can work in challenging contexts, what they might do in practice, and what tools and techniques are appropriate and useful.