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Sustainability students begin new experiential learning module

Students on the ICCSR’s MSc in Sustainability began work last week on a new experiential learning module called Managing for Sustainability, which aims to help develop the skills that will allow them to embed sustainability in various types of organisations. The module combines experiential learning and creative experimentation in the way it is taught and …

Putting CSR on the big screen

Our annual Doing the Business Film Series is back in early February, with two films about social and ethical issues in business to be screened at the independent Broadway Cinema in Nottingham. The series has been running since 2004, and aims to screen movies that raise business responsibility topics in an imaginative and thought-provoking way. …

Future Gazing and Future Shaping – MBA Open Event

    Location:                39-41 Gregory Boulevard, New Arts Exchange, Nottingham NG7 6BE Date:                      Thursday 25th February 2016 (07:30-09:00) Registration URL:   https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-gazing-and-future-shaping-mba-open-breakfast-and-day-event-tickets-20809955136 Tomorrow’s business leaders face an increasingly complex landscape, where resource constraints, stakeholder demands and the need for …

Wendy contributes to sustainable palm oil debate

Sustainable palm oil was on the agenda for the ICCSR’s Wendy Chapple recently when she took part in an international roundtable debate convened by The Guardian newspaper. The debate, held in London, looked at the question: ‘How much does consumer understanding and action affect progress towards a sustainable palm oil industry?” Wendy, who is deputy …

MBA dissertation shows Middle East law firms need to raise pro bono game

A new dissertation by an ICCSR MBA student has concluded that pro bono activity by law firms in the Middle East is lagging behind other parts of the world – and that governments in the region should act to change the situation. The dissertation, by executive MBA student Cecile Bleskine, found evidence that the provision …

Next year’s MBA elective modules are unveiled

Details have been released of specialist sustainability and responsible business electives that are being offered by ICCSR to our full-time or executive MBA students and will also be available as bespoke executive education courses. The five-day modules, which will be provided in 2016, cover four areas and will each be led by ICCSR staff. We’ve …

Jeremy Hall steps in as ICCSR’s new director

ICCSR has appointed a new director, Jeremy Hall, who has arrived from Canada to take up the post . Jeremy – who was previously a professor at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and an associate professor at Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary – took up …

Read all about it: ICCSR in the media

One of the occasionally overlooked functions of the ICCSR is to provide incisive comment on corporate responsibility issues in the media. Just recently two articles in The Guardian newspaper drew on such insights, both of them incorporating the views of Paul Caulfield, who is director of our MBA programme in CSR. The first Guardian piece, entitled ‘Can …

Time to sign up for our CSR and sustainability masters degrees

If you’ve been considering the idea of studying for one of our masters degrees in CSR or sustainability, then now’s the time to make a decision and get your application in. The next intake for both courses begins in September, and you’ll need to get your forms in to us as soon as possible. Both courses …

Everyone thinks that they’re a ‘Responsible’ Person. Where do you stand?

Written by: Christine A. Hemingway From time to time, everyone talks about their responsibilities. Whether it is looking after children, or elderly parents, or responsibilities to our siblings, or to our friends. For the majority of us, these responsibilities – and paying our household bills – are the limit of our everyday experience of our personal …