Environment and Sustainable Development MSc student work

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Dissertations published as working papers

Each academic year, a selection of the top dissertations from students across The Bartlett Development Planning Unit get published as a DPU Working Paper. Read published Environment and Sustainable Development MSc dissertations:

Explore Insights from Practice blogs

A vital part of our 'Environment and Sustainable Development in Practice' module is the ability to encourage our students to critically self-reflect throughout their learning journeys, and ultimately develop our students into reflexive, ethical and forward-looking environmental practitioners. We do this in several ways, starting with an exploration of our students' assumptions about urban socio-environmental transformation and the skills required to become active players in pursuing transformative planning. Students capture their individual development across the three terms through personal blogs and share their reflections through our 'Insights from Practice' blog series.

Beyond the mango tree: An exploration and reflection on women, care and sanitation in Kigoto
Annabel Collinson
Annabel shares her insights into fieldwork research on women's experiences of time, labour and care in Kigoto (Mwanza, Tanzania) and how women's access to sanitation affects their mental and physical wellbeing. 

Unlocking collective trauma: Knowledge production, possession, and epistemic justice in "The Act of Killing" and the 1965 genocide in Indonesia
Kafi Khaibar Lubis
Kafi provides a case study analysis of how film allows subjects to participate in creating narratives, heal collective trauma, and address debates about how to create a more just future.

The temporality and plurality of sustainability
Sophie Avent
The key lessons Sophie learned about the role of the researcher and the importance of partnerships from the overseas practice engagement in Mwanza, Tanzania. 

We know your problem, and we're going to fix it
Tywen Thomas
Tywen questions what decolonisation means, situated in the context of fieldwork research in Mwanza, Tanzania. 

The first last time: Lessons for uncertain times
Aisha Aminu
A story of how Aisha grew as a researcher through remote, group-based fieldwork.

The other side of Chungking Express
Natalie Kwong 
An investigation into how racial stereotypes in film, attributed to the South Asian community in Hong Kong, have led to the production and reproduction of epistemic injustices.

What specific processes produce and reproduce epistemic injustices? What strategies to co-produce actionable knowledge are most fruitful to challenge them?
Edoardo Repetto
Edoardo looks at how knowledge production can lead to the reproduction of epistemic injustices, such as racism, sexism, classism and ableism.

Re-educating the educated
Rachel S Fisch
Rachel reflects on her ability to re-educate the education system after taking in the lessons of the Black Lives Matter movement, through the lens of James Baldwin's 'paradox of education'.