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University of East Anglia

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University of East Anglia
Norwich, , NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom
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Demographic Information

Number of full-time MBA students (2011): 

48

Number of part-time MBA students (2011): 

9

Total duration of full-time MBA program: 

12 months

MBA faculty (Fall 2010): 

70

Females as percent of student body: 

40%


Description of MBA Program: 

As part of the University of East Anglia we are committed to responsible business and the principles of sustainable development. As part of this commitment all of our MBA students study Corporate Responsibility as a core module. Students on our MBA Strategic Carbon Management also take a range of specialized modules detailing how the risks from climate change can be managed and the opportunities maximized to maximize responsible corporate value.



In addition all of our students take part in a 'challenge event' where they have to arrange an event to raise money for a local social or environmental charity and engage with the local community.



How does the MBA program 'walk the talk' of social and environmental impact?: 

UEA occupies over 320 acres of land which contains wildlife sites of county significance along with listed buildings. The surrounding natural environments of the Yare Valley and Earlham Woods, and local communities of Earlham, Bowthorpe, Cringleford, Colney, and Eaton are also of significance as environmental ‘receptors’ and ‘emitters’ e.g. via community access to UEA grounds. An extensive history of the campus is outlined in the Conservation Development Strategy.



The UEA has over 14,000 students and over 2600 staff. As a small community hosting residences, energy generation plants, swimming pool etc. and undertaking teaching and research it has complex and wide-ranging impacts on the environment. An Initial Environmental Review (IER) published in Oct 2009 describes these impacts.



The IER formed the baseline from which we are developing an Environmental Management System (EMS) - allowing us to identify, control and report on our environmental management activity.   We have prioritised our actions; a process we’ve recorded in our Aspects Register (2010) and made commitments to improving our environmental performance; set out in our Environmental Policy (available at www.uea.ac.uk/estates/environmentalpolicy).



Our Environmental Programme (2010) outlines our actions to achieving these commitments. This focuses on implementing key procedures, developing issue specific management plans, gathering monitoring data (we are still investigating some of our impacts) and awareness raising and training. A key outcome of the Environmental Programme to date- Our Carbon Reduction Plan provides detail on how we intend to demonstrate our leadership role in carbon reduction and develop an exemplary low carbon campus.



We will be reporting extensively on our actions and performance on these pages in the future and we welcome your comments on what content you would like to see here.



Specific projects include:

  1. Use of on-site electric vehicles
  2. Green travel plan
  3. Award winning low energy buildings
  4. Biodiversity action plan
  5. Carbon reduction plan
  6. Biomass combined heat and power plant for the campus
  7. Campus wide recycling scheme

Academic Department

Course Name: Climate Change and Energy - Past, Present and Future
Instructor: Dr Gideon Middleton, Mr Konstantinos Chalvatzis

Module aims

The aim of this module is to provide students with a broad knowledge about the science and theory behind climate change, the global social and environmental impacts and how these can be managed through mitigation and adaption.

The module will allow students to understand the climate change from a geological perspective and how atmospheric levels of greenhouse gasses and global temperatures are affected by a range of biogeochemical processes. The module will then provide an overview about global temporal and spatial changes in energy consumption and the role of fossil fuels in climate change. It will then introduce the likely temporal and spatial impacts of climate change on society and the environment and how these could be reduced through mitigation and adaption.

Module objectives

By the end of the module the student should have knowledge and understanding of the following:

- The scientific basis for climate change

- The context of current changes in climate in terms of the earth’s history

- How atmospheric levels of greenhouse gasses are controlled by biogeochemical process

- How patterns of energy and fossil fuel consumption have and may change over time

- The predicted spatial and temporal impacts of climate change

- How the impacts of climate change can be reduced through mitigation and adaption

Course Name: Climate Change Governance and Compliance
Instructor: Mr Konstantinos Chalvatzis, Dr Gideon Middleton, Prof Catherine Waddams, Dr Luca Taschini

Module aims

Students will learn how climate change and emissions of greenhouse gases are managed at an international, regional and national level. Students will then critically evaluate the effectiveness of different national policy and regulatory regimes from around the world including Brazil, Russia, China, India and the UK in relation to the European Union. Carbon management will be assessed in relation to international and national energy regulation and policy. The module will then focus on the regulatory regime for energy and climate change management in the UK, including regulation and policy for the national energy markets and specific legal instruments used to increase energy efficiency and reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses.

Module objectives

By the end of the module the student should be able to:

- • Understand the historical background of climate change policy and review its progress up to date

• Practical experience in the development of CDM projects

• Understand the concept and implications of carbon leakage

• Critically evaluate the variety of regulatory approaches towards climate change adopted in different country groups, including the BRIC countries

• Have an in-depth understanding about the regulation of carbon emissions and the energy markets in the UK, including the CRC, ROCs, FiTs, code for sustainable buildings

Course Name: Corporate climate change management
Instructor: Dr Gideon Middleton

Module aims

The aim of this module is to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of how organisations can identify, govern, measure, analyse, manage and report their climate change risks.

The module will teach students how to identify climate change related corporate risks and how to develop climate change strategies for corporates. It will also teach how to undertake corporate carbon footprints and how these should be reported in corporate reports. It will also examine product related carbon footprints and how these can be used to reduce the carbon risks associated with the supply chain. The unit will use real-life information from corporate reports and look at how these can be critically evaluated. It will also look at carbon strategies can affect the brand and how customers, suppliers and employees can all be engaged to reduce the carbon intensity of an organisation.

Module objectives

By the end of the module the student should be able to:

- Understand the carbon risks faced by organisations

- Understand how to develop a low-carbon strategy

- How to measure corporate carbon footprints

- The production corporate reports

- How to undertake product carbon footprints

- Understand how carbon related risks can impact on the brand value of a company

- Engage with employees, customers and suppliers to manage carbon

Course Name: Corporate Responsibility
Instructor: Prof Rhys Jenkins, Prof Peter Newell, Dr Gideon Middleton, Dr Emma Gilberthorpe

Module aims

To explore the development of CR and to provide an understanding of the ethical challenges faced by business operating in a global context. The module examines the ethical responsibilities, concerns and conflicts that arise from corporate operations. It considers the social, environmental and human rights dimensions of corporate behaviour in different contexts and discusses a range of major international CR initiatives.

Module objectives

Students will:

- Acquire a sound grasp of the challenges faced by business of operating responsibly in a global context

- Be able to make sound decisions about the alternative approaches that can be used to face these challenges

- Understand the impact of contextual forces on organisations including ethical and social change issues; international developments; corporate governance

- Recognise ethical situations, applying ethical and organisational values to situations and choices

- Appreciate the importance of effective communication strategies

- Be equipped to deliver appropriate business policies and strategies within a changing context to meet stakeholder interests, specifically covering CR policies

- Expand critical abilities to evaluate information about company behaviour and act on it and positive ways

Course Name: Economics of the Low Carbon Environment
Instructor: Dr Baiocchi Giovanni

Module aims

This module is designed as an introduction to general economics and environmental economics. More specifically this module considers the economics of transitioning to a decarbonised economy by;

(1) framing the environmental problem in economic terms and in terms of energy policy and the international political economy (i.e. the contemporary globalised market economy and prevailing economic conditions)

(2) critically examining the tools environmental economist use (Cost Benefit Analysis and environmental valuation techniques) and the policies those tools support in a transition to decarbonisation

(3) exploring the macro and micro-economic implication of transition, with particular focus on economic growth, equity, employment, and technological change (innovation and innovation diffusion).

Module objectives

- To introduce students to the fundamental tools of economic analysis.

- To apply these tools to the analysis of how private companies, operating in competitive and other markets, determine the range and quantity of products which they produce and (in particular) the environmental impacts of such decisions.

- To present students with analytical tools capable of incorporating environmental impacts into economic decision making and to explore the range of instruments that governments can use to influence the behaviour of private, profit-seeking firms and self-interested individuals.

- To apply economic analysis to the peculiarities and challenges that the transition to a low-carbon society poses.

- To give an awareness of the wider implications and requirements of a shift from a ‘resource-exploitative’ to a ‘sustainable development’ economy.

- To provide a range of transferable skills including literature review, academic writing, active participation in debates.

Course Name: Low Carbon Technologies and Solutions
Instructor: Mr Konstantinos Chalvatzis, Dr Gideon Middleton

Module aims

The aim of this module is to give a holistic review of the current and emerging technologies and solutions required to manage and reduce energy consumption and decarbonise society - from the micro to the macro. The module will teach students about the benefits and risks associated with key renewable technologies and how to undertake an energy or carbon audit. It will also examine how changes in the design of major human systems, such as town planning, transport networks and food supply chains can be managed to significantly reduce carbon emissions.

Module objectives

By the end of the module the student should be able to:

- Understand the major current low-carbon and emerging renewable technologies, including wind, geothermal, smart grids and biomass and their associated benefits and risks

- Undertake an energy audit or review of a building

- Understand how the carbon footprint of major human systems, such as towns, transport network and food can be reduced through structural and policy changes

Course Name: Management Consultancy Skills
Instructor: Mr Terry Kendrick, Mr Julian Campbell

Module aims

This module aims to offer a practical approach to management consultancy skills whether used in external consultancy (for those intending to seek positions in management consultancy practices) or internal consultancy (for those interested in managing consultancy projects within their employing organisations).

To achieve this aim the module will draw on the knowledge base in the other MBA modules to undertake two consultancy projects within a taught framework of management consultancy skills.

These will be undertaken with a client organisation and will be either two integrated parts of one large project from diagnosis to recommendations or two separate projects. The two projects will either be for the same organisation or separate organisations as specific issues and circumstances dictate.

In addition, there is an assessed Challenge. This Challenge is to raise the profile of a partner agency and raise funds for that agency through an event in the Summer. This enables students to work as a group towards a common goal and deliver a real financial return. Challenges will reflect the set of MBA variants being offered at the time.

Module objectives

- Understand the consultancy process and roles within it

- Application of client management and ethics during management consultancy activities

- Exposure to, and effective use of, a set of analytical consultancy tools and techniques

- Understand, and apply, the fundamentals of facilitation skills and consultative workshops

- Apply project and programme management skills in consultancy activities

- Utilise information gathering and research methods approaches to support consultancy activities

- Development of interpersonal and communications skills

- Ability to set up and manage a management consultancy

Type of Offering

Why We Disagree About Climate Change
Date: January, 2011

MBA Induction Keynote talk.

Prof Mike Hulme, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia.

MBA Masterclass Series

MBA Masterclasses are held on a weekly basis and are delivered by practitioners and experts in their field.

Managing Sustainability in Practice, Tom Macagno, May Gurney

Update of EUETS from a large emitter point of view. Paul Gardiner, British Sugar

Where are all the electric cars? Jon Horsley

Update on the Carbon Disclosure Project. Nigel Topping, Chief Innovation Officer, Carbon Disclosure Project

Solar PV. Nigel Burton-White, Technology Director, Renewables East

Resource and Impacts of a selected Renewable Technology, Dr Keith Tovey, UEA

Hard Choices Ahead/What UEA is doing? Dr Keith Tovey

REDD and the role of forests in development and climate change mitigation. Dr. Oliver Springate-Baginski, School of International Development, UEA

Keeping your company’s reputation intact against the odds – Primark and the child labour accusations. Clive Francis

Product Carbon Footprinting: How and Why? Dr John Kazer, The Carbon Trust

Alan Knight

9 billion sustainable lives and shopping, from paradox to solution?

Tour of UEA campus
Type: Field Trip
Date: February, 2010

Tour of UEA campus, Dr Keith Tovey

A walking tour of the low-carbon initiatives undertaken on the UEA campus

Climate change Norfolk
Type: Field Trip
Date: March, 2010

Day tour of sites in Norfolk, Dr Keith Tovey

This tour of Norfolk looks at a range of low-carbon solutions, from large scale wind turbines to low-carbon houses. The tour also looks at some of the likely impacts of climate change and the impacts of past sea-level change on Norfolk

Visit to Adnams
Type: Field Trip

Visit to Adnams Distribution Centre and Brewery.

Adnams is a local brewery and operates a chain of pubs and hotels throughout East Anglia.

The trip allows students to see both their innovative low-carbon distribution centre, anaerobic digester and how they developed the world's first carbon neutral beer.

Centre for Competition Policy
Business School Housing? No
Contact Name: Suzy Adcock
Contact Email: s.adcock@uea.ac.uk

The Centre for Competition Policy was established on 1st September 2004 and its funding has recently been renewed as a 10 year Centre of research excellence, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Based at the University of East Anglia, the CCP has 19 academic faculty members working on the Centre’s research programme, 3 or 4 of whom are based full-time in the Centre each semester. Also undertaking and contributing to the research are 3.4 fte Research Associates, 3 Post Doctoral Research Fellows, and 17 PhD students (each of whom has at least one supervisor who is a CCP member).

CCP has close links with, but is independent of, regulatory authorities, including the European Commission, Competition Commission, Office of Fair Trading, BIS, Ofgem, Ofcom, World Bank and with private sector practitioners.

The Centre produces a regular series of working papers, policy briefings and publications, and a bi-annual newsletter with short articles reflecting our recent research. An e-bulletin keeps academics and practitioners in touch with publications and events, and there is a lively programme of conferences, workshops and practitioner seminars throughout the year.

The ESRC Centre for Competition Policy's research programme explores competition policy from the perspective of economics, law, business and political science.

A properly regulated, competitive market provides consumers with products they want at the best possible prices. Competition policy provides the framework to encourage businesses to compete productively, and without fixing prices, unfairly excluding rivals, gaining market power through mergers, or receiving distortionary subsidies. It operates alongside policies that regulate other aspects of business behaviour (e.g. environmental, social).

Competition law provides little restraint on business behaviour in markets with many alternative suppliers. When fewer firms participate in a market, however, it is appropriate to constrain a range of anticompetitive business practices. In cases of monopoly, the policy options include direct regulation of the firm’s behaviour.

Economic analysis provides an understanding of how consumers, firms and markets operate, of when markets fail for lack of competition and of the consequences of policy interventions. Legal analysis is necessary because the courts establish standards and provide the framework within which competition agencies have to operate. The design and development of policies, as well as the bodies that implement them, require an understanding from political science. Our research applies each of these disciplines individually and together to achieve real-world policy relevance without compromising academic rigour.

Norwich Business School MBA Alumni Network

Norwich Business School MBA Alumni Network is a group open to current and past MBAs from UEA. we have over 170 members signed up on our LinkedIn site, where discussions take please, there is the chance to network with other MBAs and announcement about events are posted.

In the summer of 2010 we hosted the MBA Network Gathering at Norwich Business School and welcomed back members of the network for an evening of socialising, networking and update on School and programme developments.