Course Details
Course Name
MSc Ecological Consultancy
Level of study
Postgraduate Taught
Study Mode
Fulltime
Duration
1 Years
Start Term
Sept
Country
United Kingdom
City
Newcastle
Course Subject
- Environmental Studies & Earth Sciences
Course Fees
Inside EU: 10620
Outside EU: 22710
Universities
Newcastle University
Description
Our Ecological Consultancy MSc gives you knowledge, specialised technical skills and professional awareness. It will prepare you for a career as an ecological consultant or in other environmental roles. The course has a professional focus, preparing you for the workplace.
Our Research
Biological Sciences research 5th in UK, 50% classed as world leading.
Research Excellence Framework 2014
We equip you with key skills which will enable you to pursue careers in ecology, including:
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing
experimental and survey design
wildlife surveying
wildlife legislation and natural history
Environmental Impact Assessment
Graduates of this course have an excellent track record of gaining employment in the environmental sector. Within one year of graduation 18 of the 19 students from the 2011-12 cohort were employed, most in the environmental sector and the majority with ecological consultancy companies.
Examples of recent graduate destinations include students now working in ecological jobs for:
Wardell-Armstrong
Mott MacDonald
BSG Ecology
E3 Ecology
We provide a link to cutting-edge research that feeds into ecological consultancy, eg:
research projects on black grouse and wind farms. Paper in review with the Journal of Applied Ecology
noise and bird behaviour. Paper in revision in PLOS ONE
contracts for the Scottish Bird Wind Farm Steering Group. The class of 2013-14 helped collect data for one of these contracts. They were authors on the paper which is being written up on the data they collected.
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