Conservation and Biodiversity : MSc

Lancaster University

Master

In Lancaster

£ 9,500 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    12 Months

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Our Conservation and Biodiversity Masters offers great flexibility, with a wide choice of topics from across disciplines, enabling you to construct a programme that suits your individual interests and career ambitions in this increasingly important field.
Several modules include field trips to the beautiful and topographically varied countryside around Lancaster, and beyond. If you want to travel further afield, we have research projects and partners across the globe that provide exiting opportunities when it comes to selecting your dissertation project.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

You will have the opportunity to gain a solid foundation in the key theoretical issues, such as wildlife population dynamics and conservation biology, and learn how these are applied to real-world problems, such as managing habitats or dealing with wildlife-human conflicts. Additionally, you will gain and develop the key skills that are valued by employers, such as problem solving, report writing, data analysis and presentation skills.

For graduates of ecology, biology, biological sciences, environmental sciences,geography or similar degrees who are interested in extending their knowledge and gaining experience. This course is good for people preparing for a career in consultancy, working with wildlife monitoring organisations, nature conservation charities or going on to do a PhD.

2:1 (Hons) degree (UK) or equivalent in Environmental Science, Biological Sciences, Ecology, Biology, Geography or a similar degree

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Subjects

  • Biodiversity
  • Environmental Governance
  • Management
  • Environmental Processes
  • Food Security
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
  • National Vegetation
  • Environmental
  • Conservation Biology

Course programme

You will study a range of modules as part of your course, some examples of which are listed below.

Core

    • Dissertation Project

Optional

    • Environmental Governance and Management
    • Modelling Environmental Processes
    • Food Security, Agriculture and Climate Change
    • Using the National Vegetation Classification
    • Environmental Sampling and Analysis for Trace Organics
    • Conservation Biology
    • Crop Protection
    • Habitat Management
    • Contaminated Land and Remediation
    • Chemical Risk Assessment
    • Global Change and the Earth System
    • Geoinformatics
    • Sustainable Soil Management
    • Wildlife Population Ecology
    • Wildlife Monitoring Techniques
    • Lake Ecology
    • Pollution Microbiology
    • Data Analysis and Interpretation
    • Numerical Skills
    • Data assimilation and integration
    • Environmental Aspects of Renewable Energy

This project forms a substantial part of your Masters degree. It will enhance your practical and analytical skills and give you the opportunity to apply your learning to a real-world challenge. This may involve a doing a project with a government agency or conservation organisation through our award winning Centre for Global Eco-innovation, which uses our excellent links with the environmental and conservation sectors. Examples of previous dissertation projects are:

  • Effectiveness of habitat management for fritillary butterflies (with Butterfly Conservation)
  • Impact of tourist disturbance on breeding seabirds on the Isle of May (with CEH)
  • Predation impacts on breeding success of black-tailed godwits (with RSPB)
  • Deer and forestry interactions in the Czech Republic (placement with Czech university)
  • Habitat selection by sand lizards in coastal dunes
  • Impact of urbanization on blue tit song behaviour
  • Habitat loss and biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest (with Lavras University, Brazil)
  • Biodiversity in reed fringes on Lake Windermere (with Freshwater Biological Association)

Graduates have gone on to successful careers in the environmental and conservation sectors, as well as further study for a PhD.

Additional information

Overseas Fee       £20,500

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