Activist Skills for Global Justice and Sustainable Futures (042IDSE)

15 credits, Level 5

Spring teaching

On this module, you’ll develop digital, intellectual and practical skills. You’ll use these skills to make a positive difference in the world and pursue careers in advocacy campaigns.

You’ll learn to:

• make digital investigations on global supply chains
• detect and document violations of environmental and social harm 
• use global regulations and strategic litigation as leverage
• produce briefs, reports and factsheets to lobby
• influence diverse audiences
• design your own campaigns
• think like a strategic researcher, consultant and activist.

Through interactive lectures and workshops, you’ll analyse and compare case studies of climate and social justice campaigns. You’ll then apply practical skills to real-life scenarios for sustainable futures.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 22 hours of contact time and about 128 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.