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The biodiversity of the marine environment is of enormous importance to humans as a resource for food, pharmaceuticals and ecosystem services. The School's Centre for Marine Biodiversity and Biotechnology (CMBB) focuses on research using traditional and newly developing molecular methods to study these important marine resources and products.

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Contemporary globalisation presents us with a variety of inter-related challenges associated with the sustainability of economic growth, environmental change, the continuation of poverty and inequality, the resilience of welfare states, and the changing nature of international competition. This course offers you the chance to understand and have a say in these global challenges.

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The MRM course aims to provide students with broadly based expertise in the management of marine and coastal resources including, but not limited to, fisheries and bioresources, and oil and gas. It is designed to enable graduates and professionals from a variety of backgrounds to extend their skills and knowledge to encompass the sustainable development, use, conservation and general management of marine resources.

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The Food and Water Security MSc is an innovative interdisciplinary course which focuses on the scientific, economic, social and political factors that affect the secure production and distribution of food and water throughout the world. Drawing on three complementary academic disciplines, this new programme will train you to contribute significant advances to the way in which food and water security is achieved across the technical, environmental and social spectrum.

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Modules covered: Poultry Production Systems; Poultry Nutrition and Growth; Incubation and Hatchery Practice; Housing and the Environment; Poultry Behaviour and Welfare; Poultry Health and Hygiene; Advanced Poultry Nutrition; Experimental Design; Management Skills and MSc Project (taken following successful completion of taught modules). Start date September Apply direct to SRUC. http://www.sruc.ac.uk/directory_record/3654/applied_poultry_science

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Taught modules include: Organic Forage and Livestock Production; Soils and Nutrient Cycling; Organic Crop Production; Organic Farming Case Study; Organic Farming Profession; Organic Farming Work Placement; Issues in Organic Farming; Marketing and Business Management in the Organic Farming Sector and the MSc Project (taken following successful completion of taught modules) Start dates: September Awarding University - University of Glasgow

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You will attend lectures, seminars and tutorials and take part in lab, field, project and team work and study trips in the UK.Core courses?Fundamentals of geomatics?Land survey principles and applications?Topographic mapping?Principles of GIS?Rates of landscape change?Processing landscape change?Statistical mapping techniques?Geodesy and GNSS?Radar interferometry and deformation mapping and photogrammetry?Research and professional issues?Topics in geomatics?MSc project.Optional courses?Terrestrial laser scanning?Application development in GIS?Applied GIS.

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Through a combination of core and optional courses you will combine training in the physical and biological aspects of aquatic environments with training in research methods, environmental data acquisition and handling.You will attend lectures, seminars and tutorials and take part in lab, field, project and team work and study trips in the UK.Core courses?Coastal processes or Hydrology?Impacts of climate change?Introduction to statistics?Environmental statistics?Principles of GIS?Marine sampling techniques or Freshwater sampling techniques?Research and professional issues?Research project (summer; for MSc students).Optional courses, including?Remote sensing of the environment?Freshwater sampling techniques?Marine sampling techniquesFreshwater ecology?Phyloinformatics?Catchment management?Hydrology?Coastal processes?Coastal management?Nearshore ecology.Non-credited elective courses (which will incur additional costs):?Scientific diving?Boat handling?Marine mammals.

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The PG Diploma in AgriFood has been developed in conjunction with the agrifood industry as a highly flexible programme that can be tailored to individual training needs, to enable professionals working in the agrifood sector to undertake high level, structured, continuing professional development. The University of Nottingham, in conjunction with Cranfield University, Harper Adams University and Rothamsted Research are working in partnership to develop and deliver this innovative programme that will enable participants to develop their work-based learning and research skills.Course modules are available in the four main subject areas of animals, crops, food and nutrition and transferable skills.

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Contemporary globalisation presents us with a variety of inter-related challenges associated with the sustainability of economic growth, environmental change, the continuation of poverty and inequality, the resilience of welfare states, and the changing nature of international competition. This course offers you the chance to understand and have a say in these global challenges.

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