Social Change and Equality
Are you ready to break with convention? To go beyond stereotypes and societal norms, to spark urgent, social change?
At Aberdeen, we know that diverse worldviews start with big questions, leading to even bigger solutions
The upheavals caused by climate change and the transition to low carbon jobs, the rise of AI and automation, the growth of populism and increased polarisation underline the importance of understanding societal change and the urgent need to develop alternative solutions that are rooted in theory and informed by empirical research.
Learn more about the social, societal, cultural and political aspects of life, in order to create a more equal, more diverse world.
Why Aberdeen?
- Break traditional business models with programmes that focus on addressing fundamental societal and environmental challenges, making a direct impact to policy making at industry around the themes of Corporate Social & Environmental Accounting, Energy Transitions; Work, Society & Wellbeing; Finance, Organisation & Governance and Ethics & Corporate Governance.
- Explore the processes that have shaped our natural environments to understand how we can tackle climate change, water management, natural hazards and transition from fossils fuels to sustainable energy.
- From the constitution to civil liberties, and from criminal justice to human rights, together we will explore how law regulates and protects the rights of individuals, families and communities.
- The University has been a member of the Advance HE Athena Swan Charter since 2011 and achieved its first Bronze Athena Swan Institutional award in 2012.
- We are proud members of the Stonewall Diversity Champions programme and hold a Stonewall Silver Award.
- Queen's Anniversary Prize: in 2021, our world-leading research and teaching in soil science was awarded a prestigious Queen's Anniversary Prize - the highest national Honour awarded in UK further and higher education.
Top 10
in the UK for Law
(Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023)
3rd
in the UK for Theology and Religious Studies
(Complete University Guide 2023)
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Katharina Ueberberg, LLM
"My true north is figuring out how I can contribute to shaping a better and sustainable future with my law degree. As new innovations and developments will play a significant role in the future, the law must guide the way to ensure a safe and promising way to a future of a safe and sustainable climate.
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