Postgraduate Diploma in Culture and Sustainability

Entry requirements

Course Entry Requirements and how to apply

You will need to hold at least a lower second (2.2) UK bachelor’s degree or international equivalent and at least 4 years of experience in a leadership role. If you do not have these qualifications but believe that this is the course for you, please apply and we will conduct an interview process to ensure that the programme would be right for you. The programme is taught entirely in internationally accessible English, but if English is not your first language you will need to hold a minimum IELTS 6.5.

You will be asked to complete an application form to demonstrate your experience. We may interview you to ensure that the programme would be right for you.

Months of entry

September

Course content

Operating in a post-pandemic environment, digital transformation and aligning to ESG goals means that building a culture of sustainability has become much more than a tick box exercise for organisations. With growing demands from stakeholders and consumers, being able to prove your contribution towards the big issues of people, society and the planet means tackling culture – big and small C.

The Postgraduate Diploma in Culture and Sustainability has been designed for leaders in organisations who want to make a difference. The programme draws on Roffey Park’s long-established research on organisational resilience and more recent work on the meaning and practice of organisational sustainability from human interaction and flourishing perspectives. Taking these perspectives, learners will reflect on and learn about how culture is both generated and structured in organisations. Also, how alignment in decision making, process management, the delegation of authority, continuous improvement, customer centricity and brand, can form culture and the potential for sustainability. The focus of development on this programme is on your skills and behaviour around the subject of culture and sustainability so that you can create impact and sustainable positive change within your own context.

Programme Outline

Module 1 – Academic reading and writing

Module 2 – Organisational Sustainability

Module 3 – Organisation as cultural ecology

Module 4 – Environmental regulation and impact on cultural practice

Module 5 – Holistic risk assessment

Module 6 – Developing sustainability strategy

This Postgraduate Diploma in Culture and Sustainability is for you if you are…

• A senior HR or OD professional who wants to develop your organisation’s culture so that it is centred on a collective purpose
• In a role focused on culture transformation and sustainability, either within an organisation or operating as an independent consultant
• A leader ready to challenge themselves and make a developmental leap to the next level of their growth in a strategic organisational role

You will walk away with:

1. A postgraduate diploma, an internationally recognised qualification that will boost your impact and career as a leader and/or manager.
2. A thorough understanding of culture, how it is generated and imposed and the effect on behaviour and organisational sustainability
3. The tools and models used to develop principles and practice of culture and sustainability within organisations
4. Greater connection with a network of leaders

Programme Modules

Module 1 – Academic reading and writing

Module 2 – Organisational Sustainability

Module 3 – Organisation as cultural ecology

Module 4 – Environmental regulation and impact on cultural practice

Module 5 – Holistic risk assessment

Module 6 – Developing sustainability strategy

Benefits for you

You will graduate with a diploma in change leadership, an internationally recognised qualification, which will grow your impact and career as a leader and/or manager. You will be able to:

• Evaluate the internal and external drivers of organisational sustainability
• Explore different perspectives on cultural ecology from an organisational perspective
• Analyse environmental regulation and its impact on organisational cultural practice
• Conduct holistic risk assessments
• Develop strategies for organisational sustainability

Find out more and meet us online

To help you understand more about the programme and what it’s like to study at Roffey Park, we run regular online information webinars. Book onto the next event

Fees and funding