PhD Programme · Climate Change and Gender Studies
Climate Resilience, Gender and Rural Livelihoods
Overview
The PhD in Climate Resilience, Gender and Rural Livelihoods is one of the fifteen programmes deployed for Cohort 1, taught within the Department of Climate Change and Gender Studies. Degrees are awarded through the School of Postgraduate Studies of Nasarawa State University, Keffi.
Every student has both an academic supervisor and an industry supervisor, and takes internationally certified modules, including UNITAR modules that carry credit.
Entry requirements
[To be confirmed by the School of Postgraduate Studies] — a good first degree in a relevant discipline, admitted through the School of Postgraduate Studies of Nasarawa State University, Keffi.
At a glance
Level: PhD
Duration: [To be confirmed] — typically 36 months, full-time equivalent
Mode: Hybrid — online modules on the AM3C eLearning platform with on-campus residencies; live teaching on Zoom
Department: Climate Change and Gender Studies
First-semester courses
Course list for the first semester of the 2025/2026 session. Credit weights to be confirmed.
| Code | Title | Credit |
|---|---|---|
| AMC 901 | Advanced Research Methods & Data Analytics | — |
| AMC 903 | Grant Writing & Intellectual Property Rights | — |
| AMC 942 | Remote Sensing for Land Degradation Assessment | — |
| AMC 996 | Ph.D. Seminar I (Proposal Defense) | — |
| AGE 914 | Climate-Resilient Seed Systems & Genetics | — |
| AGE 940 | Landscape Restoration Ecology & Engineering | — |
| CCG 910 | Intersectionality & Critical Climate Justice | — |
| CCG 912 | Gender-Transformative Adaptation Pathways | — |
| CCG 913 | Rural Sociology & Livelihood Diversification | — |
| CCG 921 | Planetary Health Systems & Ecological Equity | — |
| CCH 951 | Epidemiology of Climate-Sensitive Diseases | — |
| CFP 910 | Advanced Climate Economics & Political Economy | — |
| CFP 911 | Institutional Theory & Polycentric Governance | — |
| CFP 921 | Macro-Fiscal Policies, Sovereign Debt & Swaps | — |
| CFP 924 | Climate Venture Capital & Innovation Finance | — |
| CFP 931 | Advanced Carbon Markets & Pricing | — |
| CFP 932 | Actuarial Science for Climate Change | — |
| CPA 911 | Advanced Agri-Systems Modeling & Digital Twins | — |
| CPA 912 | Low-Carbon Precision Technologies (VRT) | — |
| CPA 922 | Geospatial Big Data & Cloud Computing | — |
| CPA 923 | Generative AI for Climate Modeling | — |
| CPA 962 | Large Language Models (LLMs) for Agriculture | — |