Education

Teaching responsible marketing and consumption 

Students on Queen Mary’s International Marketing and Business Strategies MSc examine how marketing, consumption and business decisions affect the environment and wider society. Through the Sustainability Marketing, Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility module, students explore the environmental and social consequences of consumption and consider how organisations can make more responsible decisions. 

The module has reached more than 300 students across multiple cohorts, giving students practical ways to apply sustainability ideas to different cultural, organisational and professional contexts. This has helped in building awareness of how marketing and consumption choices can support more responsible business practices. 

Sustainable finance and responsible business 

At Queen Mary’s Centre for Commercial Law Studies, students examine responsible business from legal and financial perspectives. The Law and Ethics in Business and Finance module explores business ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainable investment, while Sustainable Finance and the Corporation examines how companies can be financed and regulated to support sustainability and climate goals. 

These modules help students understand how legal, financial and corporate decisions influence resource use, investment and responsible business practice, preparing them to consider sustainability in future professional decision-making. 

Bringing sustainability into mainstream business education 

Sustainability and responsible decision-making are also embedded within Queen Mary’s wider business and management teaching. Students engage with issues including corporate social responsibility, ethical decision-making and the environmental consequences of organisational behaviour. 

Embedding these issues across mainstream business education means that future professionals in management, marketing, finance and entrepreneurship are exposed to sustainability as part of everyday business decision-making, rather than only through specialist environmental programmes.