Master’s Degree Programme in Leadership for Change - Tampere University

08/12/2022

Apply to the Master’s Degree Programme in Leadership for Change! The admission period lasts until Wednesday 11 January 15.00 (UTC+2). You can choose between the three tracks – European and Global Politics, Governance for Sustainable Change and Sustainable Business Management – and study both track-specific courses as well as cross-disciplinary joint studies. New kinds of leadership skills are in demand at local, national, international and global levels. The master’s programme prepares the students to navigate in these complex and interconnected settings. Follow the link to read more and submit your application: https://blogs.tuni.fi/leadershipforchange/general/join-the-masters-degree-programme-in-leadership-for-change/ Don’t hesitate to spread the word about the admission period!

25/03/2022

The Master’s Degree Programme in Leadership for Change gladly invites you to the third Leadership for Change Lecture of the LFC Lecture series 2022, organized by the first-year students of the MDP in Leadership for Change. The LFC speaker Marja-Riitta Ketola, Executive Director of UNICEF Finland will address the challenges facing children’s rights following the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland and worldwide. The highly relevant lecture will provide a great platform for discussion also about other current affairs such as children and the war in Ukraine.
The LFC Lecture will be held on Thursday 31 March at 14-16 at Tampere University in the auditorium Pinni B1096. During the first half of the lecture, Marja-Riita will cover the topic and then move to a Q&A session.
There will be coffee served from 14.00 and the lecture will begin at 14.15. Please note that the LFC Lecture takes place on campus and there will be no option to join via Zoom.
This event is open also to the wider public beyond the university, so don't hesitate to spread the word!
Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/0i1rJrZBpd

14/02/2022

We invite you to the first Leadership for Change Lecture of the year, organized by the first-year students of the Master's Degree Programme in Leadership for Change. Our LFC speaker is Lea Rankinen, Director in Sustainability and Public Affairs (Paulig Group). The theme of the lecture is sustainability leadership and successful business integration. The LFC Lecture takes place on Thursday 17 February at 16-18 on Zoom. After the lecture, the audience will have a chance to ask questions and join the discussion. Please follow the link to register: https://bit.ly/lfclearankinen The Zoom link for the LFC Lecture will be sent one day before the event.
The LFC Lectures are open also to the public beyond Tampere University, so don't hesitate to spread the word and invite your friends and colleagues!

04/02/2022

It has become a programme’s tradition to publicly honour the research done by the LFC graduates. This time, we celebrate the work of 5 graduates who were receiving their master’s qualification in the autumn semester 2021. Read our new blog post with the short abstracts of each work with more details on the authors, findings and links to full texts.

https://blogs.tuni.fi/leadershipforchange/general/lfc-graduates-in-the-autumn-semester-2021/

19/01/2022

NEW PUBLICATION BY THE LFC STUDENT IN THE ROUTLEGE EDITED VOLUME

LFC student Raysa França has a forthcoming publication in an edited volume "Social and Cultural Aspects of the Circular Economy" (published by Routledge). This collection of essays brings together discussions arguing that circular economy must be linked to society and culture in order to create a viable concept for remodelling the economy. Covering a diverse range of topics and regions, including cities and living, food and human waste, packaging and law, fashion, design and art, this book provides a multi-layered examination of circularity.

In this collection, LFC student Raysa França co-authored the piece called “Filling the social gap in the circular economy: How can the solidarity economy contribute to urban circularity?” together with Erkki-Jussi Nylén, Ari Jokinen, and Pekka Jokinen. Raysa acknowledges that her writing and research have greatly benefited from the work of other LFC students.

We congratulate Raysa with such a great achievement and wish her many more successive projects in the future! 👏

30/12/2021

"Sustainability in consulting business” and “Industrial union as promoter of the seasonal workers’ rights”: those are just two examples of the case studies conducted by 2-year LFC students in collaboration with partner organisations. The students' projects have been carried out as part of the annual course "LFCS04 Case Study: Examining Leadership and Sustainability Challenges". During the course, the students design and conduct research projects on the basis of tasks assigned to them by a partner organisation; the course, thus, is aimed at developing students’ capabilities and know-how in multi-disciplinary research teams. Read the blog post and have a closer look at the description of 8 projects the students performed in the autumn semester 2021!

The second-year LFC students have just finished the 2021 edition of the course “LFCS04 Case Study: Examining Leadership and Sustainability Challenges” which is traditionally carried out in close collaboration with business and public organisations. During the course, the students design and cond...

28/12/2021

APPLICATION PERIOD IS ON!

The application period for the Master’s Programme in Leadership for Change is on until 12 January 2022! Choose one from the three study tracks: European and global politics; Governance for sustainable change; and Sustainable business management. Then, prepare your application and be ready to start your studies at Tampere University in August 2022!

Our interdisciplinary programme analyzes such contemporary topics as climate change, global security dynamics, and reforms of political, social and economic systems. The studies at “Leadership for Change” develops knowledge and expertise to explain the complex phenomena and become a visionary leader.

25/08/2021

Yesterday 24.08 LFC staff members held an orientation session for new LFC students! After the introduction session (albeit online, but we hope to see each other in person quite soon!), teachers talked about uniqueness of the programme where governance, politics and business issues are analyzed multidisciplinary from a sustainable perspective - and provided practical information on programme’s structure and study plans.
We welcome our new students and wish all the best with your studies!

23/07/2021

There has been a year since we last posted updates on our successful graduates and their theses: it is high time to honour the work by 28 LFC master’s students who graduated during the academic year 2020-2021.

The theses deal with a rich variety of topics, which addresses – and portrays – the interdisciplinarity of the LFC master’s programme in politics, governance and business studies. The topics of theses include – among others – postcolonising Danish foreign policy activism in the Global South; employee well-being in self-managing organizations; xenophobia and racism in the context of Vox’s Instagram account; customer-centricity of fashion rental companies; EU’s combat against gender violence; wellbeing through self-tracking.

Follow the link for more details on the topics and findings:
https://blogs.tuni.fi/leadershipforchange/general/lfc-masters-theses-academic-year-2020-2021/

There has been a year since we last posted updates on our successful graduates and their theses: it is high time to honour all the work by LFC master’s students who graduated during the academic year 2020-2021.

18/06/2021

“I am Eteläpuisto. I was born to be a park in the 1830s in the city of Tampere, Finland. I am located at the southern end of Hämeenpuisto park, and my friends have called me “the lungs of Tampere”. I am the green gate to lake Pyhäjärvi, and I protect its shore, connecting the city to the Pyynikki parks. My landscape features wide walking tracks and a stable ground. In this blog post, I will talk about how, together with my friends, I have been fighting for our right to exist against threats of urban planning and development, and why we have been successful until now.”

Read the full blog text, co-authored by Tatjana Blum, Sari Veripää and Raysa França, by following the link: https://blogs.tuni.fi/leadershipforchange/general/i-want-to-live-but-tamperes-neoliberal-urban-agenda-threatens-my-existence/ The text was originally published on Youth4Nature’s blog.

Photo by Tatjana Blum.

24/05/2021

Does it already feel like summer in Finland? 🌳🐞🫐☀️ What are you looking forward to about summer this year?
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03/05/2021

Last week, vappu celebrations took place across Finland, and Näsinneula, the tallest building in Finland and the symbol of Tampere, turned 50 years!
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