Academic
leadership:
The Centre for Development, Environment and Policy (SOAS)
The
Centre for Development, Environment and Policy (CeDEP)
is a newly created centre within the Department of Financial and
Management Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies
(SOAS). CeDEP aims to increase professional understanding of
development, the environment, and related subjects by advanced
research and by high quality postgraduate degree programmes.
A merging of
the former Imperial College Distance Learning Programme at Wye
with Public Policy and Management at CeFiMS (SOAS), CeDEP is now
one of the largest international postgraduate distance learning
programmes in the field. It currently has close to 1,000
students working in a range of government, business and other
organisations spread over more than 100 countries. Most of these
students are professionals already working in their field of
study, seeking to deepen and broaden their understanding and
skills to open up new opportunities and make them more effective
in their careers.
The diversity
within the student community and the networking facilitated by
the programme provides a wonderful opportunity to learn from and
share experiences with peers in many different countries.
Academic staff
The academic
directors each have individual research interests and
collaborations and manage the courses. They are responsible for
the academic quality of the course materials as well as being
involved in course development, teaching and examining.
With extensive
international experience in research and postgraduate education,
academic directors are supported by subject specialist tutors in
offering seven degree pathways created from over 40 course
modules.
