18/5/2020 Master's Programme in Social-ecological resilience for sustainable development - Stockholm University

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Master's Programme in Social-ecological

resilience for sustainable development
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120 credits

The 2-year Master’s Programme Social-Ecological Resilience for Sustainable Development

aims to enhance students’ knowledge of the complex interactions between social and ecological
dynamics at different scales; particularly ecosystem management and governance in the
context of change and uncertainty. Students are introduced to different research approaches
and methods for studying coupled social and ecological systems. The aim is to provide
students with insights into problem-driven transdisciplinary environmental research.
The Master’s programme consists of one year of courses, including the option of a traineeship,
and one year spent doing a Master’s thesis. The four mandatory courses are designed with an
emphasis on resilience, and define the challenges we face today and reflect on how resilience
thinking can be applied to social-ecological systems to solve real-life problems.
The four compulsory courses are:
• Social-ecological systems: challenges and approaches
• Systems Theory and Resilience Thinking
• Governing and managing social-ecological systems
• Resilience reflections and applications
Students’ theses are mainly incorporated in on-going research projects and are all related to
one of the research themes at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. We strongly encourage
students to publish their research in peer-reviewed journals.
We want to attract top international and Swedish students and ensure that they are embedded
in the research life at the Centre. Integrating students, post docs and senior researchers is
important to us as this provides professional role models, develops students’ practical research
skills and builds important social networks… a process that can also be lots of fun!

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18/5/2020 Master's Programme in Social-ecological resilience for sustainable development - Stockholm University

Detailed information

Autumn 2020 | Daytime | 100 % | On campus

Programme code: NSRHO
Application Code: SU-56050
Application deadline 15 January
Level
Master's level
Language
English
Eligibility
Bachelor's degree and experience, within or outside the degree, in a field relevant to the
program. Swedish upper secondary school course English B/English 6 or equivalent.
Information about entry requirements on universityadmissions.se
(https://www.universityadmissions.se/en/All-you-need-to-know1/Applying-for-studies/Entry-
requirements/)

Selection
Grades of academic courses, Relevant work and/or research experience, motivation letter,
research ideas for thesis, relevance of previous studies in relation to the programme.
Syllabus - legal document
Syllabus in Swedish, valid from Autumn 2011.pdf
(https://sisu.it.su.se/pdf_creator/18271/22791)

Syllabus in English, valid from Autumn 2011.pdf

(https://sisu.it.su.se/pdf_creator/18271/22791/en)

Tuition fee
Applies to citizens from outside EU, EEA or Switzerland. First instalment: 70000 SEK. The
complete programme: 280000 SEK.
More information on tuition fees
Subject
Biology
Area of interest
Science and Mathematics
Department responsible for education
Department of Biology Education
(http://www.big.su.se)

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