Meet our MSc in Sustainable Urban Development students

A global community

The MSc in Sustainable Urban Development attracts a lively and engaged group of students, who combine postgraduate study with their professional lives, and an active alumni network. Students on the course come from a wide international background and share a variety of work experiences in urban development and the built environment.

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Meet our students

Neha Arora

Neha Arora

Encouraged by her manager, and fellow MSc in Sustainable Urban Development alumnus, Neha decided to enrol on the MSc to further both her career and budding personal interests.

Edith Chin

Edith Chin

Edith found that completing the MSc in Sustainable Urban Development ignited a desire for further research and truly demonstrated that ‘the more you come to know, the more you want to know’.

Christopher de Gruben

Christopher de Gruben

Christopher enrolled on the MSc in Sustainable Urban Development in order to better lead his own business and to make a more substantial contribution to the development of Mongolia.

Paul Hackett CBE

Paul Hackett CBE

Having worked in the field for decades, Paul Hackett CBE found that the MSc in Sustainable Urban Development offered an expansive range of topics to further enhance his career ambitions.

Jan Höhnk

Jan Höhnk

Jan was working as a freelancer in Germany before he undertook the MSc in Sustainable Urban Development. He is now working in Oxford University's sustainability team, helping to reduce the university’s carbon emissions.

Swati Janu

Swati Janu

The MSUD course helped Swati, a designer from Delhi, to 'imbibe new facets of urbanism'

Aditi Khodke

Aditi Khodke

Having discovered that her MSc in Sustainable Urban Development research highlighted scope for further exploration, Aditi is now enrolled on the part-time DPhil programme.

Karim Khwanda

Karim Khwanda

Karim enrolled on the MSc in Sustainable Urban Development in order to learn how to help reconstruct and develop cities in Syria

Marvin Lagonera

Marvin Lagonera

Marvin Lagonera saw our part-time MSc in Sustainable Urban Development as an opportunity to achieve his career goals: meaningfully contributing to the knowledge and practice of city climate action.

Victoria Lee

Victoria Lee

Victoria pursued the MSc in Sustainable Urban Development to help answer strategic design questions related to her work in Muscat, Oman.

Rachel Meunier

Rachel Meunier

With a background in geography and urban planning, Rachel Meunier chose the part-time MSc in Sustainable Urban Development to inform her day-to-day work.

Bill Morris LVO

Bill Morris LVO

Bill embarked on our part-time MSc in Sustainable Urban Development to find new inspiration and enhance his consulting work on making cities more sustainable, despite the challenges of returning to academia after 40 years.

Tom Overton

Tom Overton

As a Principal Engineer in a global consultancy firm, Tom embarked on the MSc in Sustainable Urban Development to delve deeper into critical issues of sustainability in urban environments, driven by a fascination with water's role in shaping cities.

Onur Ozlu

Onur Ozlu

Onur has been using knowledge gained on the MSc in Sustainable Urban Development course since graduation

Sandro Sato

Sandro Sato

Sandro Sato, a former business development manager pursued our part-time MSc in Sustainable Urban Development to expand his knowledge beyond marketing, exploring mega events and sustainability while balancing a demanding career across multiple countries.

Gavin Schaefer

Gavin Schaefer

Before enrolling in the MSc in Sustainable Urban Development, Gavin was in Vancouver working on large-scale global projects as an architect.

Melissa Tier

Melissa Tier

Since enrolling on the MSc in Sustainable Urban Development Melissa has been accepted on to a PhD programme at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School.

Ed Steane

Ed Steane

Being able to compare, in real time, urban experiences from throughout the Global South and the Global North was a unique and inspiring academic experience for Ed when undertaking the MSc in Sustainable Urban Development.

Frank Trevino Jr

Frank Trevino Jr

Motivated by unanswered questions about smart city adoption and the impact of COVID-19, Frank Trevino Jr pursued our part-time MSc in Sustainable Urban Development to drive people-centric, sustainable solutions for urban transformation.

Andy Yates

Andy Yates

Andy Yates wanted a more holistic understanding of urban sustainability and chose to study on our part-time MSc in Sustainable Urban Development.