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Overview
Develop a leadership identity that better suits an increasingly diverse and agile workforce
Course options
The Strategic Inclusive Leadership degree can be taken as a 60-credit PGCert option, a 120-credit PGDip option, and a 180-credit MSc option.
Inclusive leadership is vital for today’s organisations. Leadership styles must recognise different needs and identities to ensure a more welcoming, positive and productive workplace culture.
Aimed at ambitious early-to-mid career leaders, you will critically engage with how inclusive leadership influences organisational practice. The degree benefits from a holistic approach, meaning you will study organisational behaviour, strategic people management, critical engagement with inclusivity, and engage with applied and reflective leadership.
On completion of the course, you will have gained a distinct set of knowledge, skills and complementary values that are applicable to any organisation looking to ensure inclusivity is core to their culture.
Designed to prompt change
The course is built around a four-stage model to frame, critique, deliver and embed inclusive leadership to ensure positive organisational change.
Be at the forefront
Each organisation and workforce are different, and all will engage with inclusive practice to varying degrees. Futureproof your skillset with knowledge about how to strengthen such practice.
Learn more about you
Critically consider the extent to which inclusive leadership is anchored within your leadership philosophy, identity and ethos, and how this can influence organisations.
Go beyond short-course qualifications
This degree does not intend to replicate existing provisions on ‘how to do’ inclusivity in organisational contexts, such as gathering data and operationalising it via policy. Instead, it will encourage leaders to disrupt established thinking about inclusivity and critically re-evaluate leadership practice.
Make it work for you
The degree can be taken as a 60-credit PGCert option, a 120-credit PGDip option, and a 180-credit MSc option.
The Course
What you will study
This degree encourages you to critically reflect upon and re-evaluate your leadership practice. Based upon inclusive leadership, you will challenge established thinking to influence organisational change.
Modules
Academic and Professional Practice
This module provides you with the skills necessary to manage the development of different study, employability and research skills, leading to the development of a Research and Employability Portfolio that will support your Dissertation and the applications for a job after the MSc course.
It concentrates on core skills such as critical thinking and data analysis as well as the practicalities of qualitative and quantitative research methods and basic skills around communication and reflection.
CV writing, along with understanding communication and cultural differences, will enhance your ability to apply successfully for positions across the globe.
Organisational Behaviour and Development
This module provides a robust knowledge of various issues associated with organisational behaviour and the development of both organisations and individuals.
You will become aware of your personal and interpersonal skills and capabilities in learning about organisational issues which will in turn stimulate an interest and enthusiasm for further learning of this subject area.
Framing and Critiquing Inclusive Leadership
This is a core module for the PGCert and PGDip offering
This module aims to frame and critique the concept of inclusive leadership.
With application to a broad array of industry settings, the module will introduce you to the origins and development of inclusive leadership strategies.
Contemporary issues and examples, current legislation and standards will be explored to make sense of how inclusive leadership interacts with industry today.
Throughout, the module will benefit from critical theories, academic scholarship and lived experiences to provide deeper insight.
Specialist Knowledge in Practice
The module enables you to gain academic credit through the demonstration of academic and practice outcomes following participation in professionally relevant short courses, which may not attract formal academic credit.
Business in Action
The choices that we make and the actions that we take have real-world practical implications, some of which we can know and anticipate others less so.
From one country or culture to another, the way we see our world and the choices we make might differ, but the challenges and opportunities we face are similar. These include the changing role of technology, our climate, societies and the political context globally and locally. How we navigate these will determine our success today and our legacy for future generations.
This module puts these challenges and opportunities in a business context where we will explore practical experiences and theory.
Delivering and Embedding Inclusive Leadership
This is a core module for the PGCert and PGDip offering
This module aims to frame and critique how the concept of inclusive leadership can be enacted in practice. Building from ‘Framing and Critiquing Inclusive Leadership’, the module will explore how different delivery methods, skills and programmes are used by industry.
Beyond this, the module will critique practices of resistance and conflict that come with trying to enact and embed inclusive leadership in practice.
Management Project
The Management Project provides you with an opportunity to develop your interests in a particular area and to demonstrate your ability to undertake individual research. The module will culminate in the presentation of a 12,000-word Management Project.
You will receive the support and guidance of a nominated supervisor who is an academic in the field of the Management Project and attend campus regularly during the course of this module to gain access to all facilities available on-site, although data collection may require you to work off-campus.
There will also be a series of sessions focusing on research methodologies and research-supporting topics that you will be required to attend to help develop your skills for the assessment. These sessions will be held on campus and also online.
Teaching and Assessment
How you will learn
Face-to-face teaching means you can engage in invigorating group discussions and seminars. Develop your subject knowledge and workplace skills under the guidance of expert teaching and industry staff from across the Business School.
You will be assessed through a range of assignments and finish your course by completing a dissertation.
Meet your programme lead
Jordan Matthews
Jordan is the Programme Leader for the Sport Business Management undergraduate degree and the Strategic Inclusive Leadership postgraduate degree housed within the Business School.
Facilities
Use industry-standard equipment
Learning Resource Centre
The Learning Resource Centre (LRC) contains the library, a café, IT/teaching rooms and the Support and Information Zone (SIZ).
Library
Our campus library holds more than 200,000 books and over 500,000 eBooks.
Careers
Where you could go after your studies
The Strategic Inclusive Leadership degree is ideal for early-to-mid career leaders who are looking to progress even further into managerial and leadership employment.
On completion of the course, you will have critically interacted with taken-for-granted assumptions of how inclusive leadership is defined, actioned and lived, and have a solid grasp of shaping organisational practice through an inclusive lens.
With this qualification, you’ll be highly employable, with a distinct knowledge and skillset applicable to any organisation looking to ensure inclusivity.
Your future job could include:
- Team leader
- Director of people
- Head of HR
- Marketing manager
- Director of equity and inclusion
- CEO
Course Costs
Course Fees 2025/26
UK fee
International fee
For further details about fees, please see our Tuition Fee page.
For further details about international scholarships, please see our Scholarships page.
University of Chichester alumni who have completed a full undergraduate degree at the University will receive a 15% discount on their postgraduate fees.
To find out about any additional costs on this course, please see our Additional Costs page.
Entry Requirements
Typical Offer (individual offers may vary):
- 2:2 in an appropriate course, or equivalent level professional qualification, or significant demonstrable and subject-relevant work experience
- currently working, or looking to advance into a management or leadership role
- a personal statement outlining your interest in the degree<
- grade 4/C in GCSE Maths and English
- applicants will also need to meet the minimum English language requirement of an IELTS score of 6.5 overall with no component below 5.5, or an equivalent recognised test. Visit our English Language Requirements page for more information
- if your current IELTS or equivalent score is below the standard requirement, we also offer Pre-Sessional English programmes and you can find out more on our Pre-sessional Programme page.
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MSc
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