Overview

• Designed in consultation with multiple external agencies to?ensure relevant training that maximises graduate employability and targets both research and practical conservation skills
• Offers substantial fieldwork opportunities in the UK and overseas, including a field course in Kenya
• Provides opportunities to connect with external agencies and organisations to further enhance your training
• Delivered by leading international researchers in the Centre for Ecology and Conservation
• Offers access to excellent facilities including state-of-the-art research laboratories, greenhouses and controlled environment rooms

Careers
Employer-valued skills this course develops

This programme will provide you with a diversity of skills that will equip you for a range of sectors of work and further study of marine environments. Skills include:

• Scientific writing and poster preparation
• Grant writing
• Public speaking
• Short film production
• Press release and the professional use of social media
• Data analysis
• Writing scientific information for a lay audience
• Use of “R” and GIS.

Career destinations

The programme will prepare students for careers in environmental NGOs, government conservation agencies and ecological consultancy companies in the UK and overseas. The degree also offers a thorough training in research skills and methods so provides an excellent basis for an academic career, with many students progressing directly to PhD positions.