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University of Oxford
Enterprise and the Environment DTP Course
Oxford
16-27 January 2017
Have you ever considered…
• How your research can be relevant to the corporate and finance sectors?
• How finance, economics and the corporate sector are important to your work in maths, physics and life sciences?
• What are the keys to communicating environmental science to stakeholders in these sectors?
• How cross-disciplinary collaborations can deliver environmental and social value?
If so, then please join us for the Smith School’s Enterprise and the Environment Doctoral Training Programme Course on 16-27 January 2017.
Enhance your ability as an engaged researcher delivering social impact through your work by taking this unique opportunity to learn about the world of finance, business and economics within your doctoral studies.
The course will:
• Make you unique among your peers through your knowledge of how business, economics and finance work and its relevance in the ‘hard sciences’.
• Enhance your ability to design research with consideration of business end users in enterprise and the financial sector.
• Enable you to form contacts with other researchers and business professionals with an interest in the outcomes of your research.
• Develop your understanding of the significance and potential impacts of making your research relevant and accessible to business. This includes providing the knowledge to develop engagement plans and networks in order for research to lead to action and policy change in the financial sector and within enterprises.
Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment’s
Doctoral Training Programme Course
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The Smith School’s Enterprise and the Environment DTP course is funded through the NERC Doctoral Training Partnership in Environmental Research.
This two-week intensive programme draws on from the SSEE’s strengths in environmental economics and policy, enterprise management, and financial markets and investment. We will explore how we study critical global environmental challenges in the 21st century through the combination of rigorous science and diverse stakeholder engagement.
Designed and delivered by Smith School faculty, the course will provide foundation for doctoral students in:
Fundamentals of economics, finance and corporate environmental management
• Understanding the structures, networks, and decision-making processes in enterprise and the financial sector
• The role of markets (finance, energy and water) in environmental-decision making
• How markets are evolving to integrate factors such as environment, social and governance
• Financing the environment and conservation – valuation and integration
• The challenges and opportunities associated with managing resources (water, energy etc) and infrastructure development using economics and finance tools
Establishing engagement, influencing policy and/or securing funding.
Enterprise and the Environment DTP
Course
Faculty: Professor Gordon Clark, Director, SSEE
Professor Cameron Hepburn, Professor of Environmental Economics, SSEE
Dr Caitlin McElroy, Lecturer, SSEE
Ben Caldecott, Director (Sustainable Finance Programme), SSEE
Dr Dustin Garrick, Departmental Research Lecturer, Environmental Management, SSEE
Dr Alex Teytelboym, Otto Poon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, SSEE
Dr Paul Jepson, Senior Research Fellow, SSEE
With others to be confirmed.
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Format of the programme will include:
• Learning through a range of formats including lectures, case studies, interactive activities, small group tasks
• Direct engagement with practitioners in the finance and corporate sectors in discussing environmental challenges from their perspective, reviewing case studies, and discussing gaps and opportunities for future work.
A visit to London to meet with professionals in the finance, corporate and government sectors.
Registration
This course forms part of the Doctoral Training Partnership in
Environmental Research and is also open to other Oxford
graduate students from NERC Doctoral Training Programme
as well as other Universities.
CONTACT
For more information about the course please contact:
Victoria Forth
Environmental Research DTP Programme Manager
University of Oxford
Tinbergen Building
South Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3PS
+44 1865 271193
Deposit
Please note a £50 deposit is required to secure your place. This will be refunded when you attend the course.
Details on how to pay your deposit will be sent to you after you register.
Register now to
guarantee your place!
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About the Smith School
The Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment is a
leading interdisciplinary academic hub focused upon teaching,
research, and engagement with enterprise on climate change
and long-term environmental sustainability. We work with
social enterprises, corporations, and governments; we seek to
encourage innovative solutions to the challenges facing
humanity over the coming decades. Our work is complemented
by close ties with the physical and social sciences, and
especially the research and teaching of our parent department,
the School of Geography and the Environment.
www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk
