Agriculture

Entry requirements

A 2:1 honours degree, or international equivalent, in a relevant subject. We usually expect research experience and/or a postgraduate qualification, such as a MRes or MSc, for PhD study.

Months of entry

January, April, September

Course content

Join Newcastle University for your MPhil or PhD in Agriculture. Our research-active academic staff will support you. Supervision is available in a number of research topics.

Our agriculture research:

Crop science

• Genes and physiological traits, such as:
• resistance to crop pests and diseases
• molecular-assisted selection and breeding methods
• plant environment interactions and their relationships to stress biology
• physiological basis of crop yield and quality
• biotransformation of synthetic compounds and natural products in plants
• herbicide selectivity in cereals and competing weeds

Soil science

• Soil ecology and the contribution of soil biodiversity to soil quality.
• Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics.
• Interpretation of soil and landscape processes to improve understanding of recent and historical environmental change.
• Land degradation processes and their control.

Ecological (organic) agriculture

• Functional biodiversity for control of pest, disease and weed pressure.
• Long-term factorial systems comparison experiments for in-depth study of different aspects of conventional and organic farming systems.

Agricultural water management

• Irrigated agriculture.
• Interactions between land-use and hydrological response in a semi-arid environment.
• Soil hydrological processes affecting the management of salinity in irrigated land.

Information for international students

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Fees and funding

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