Environmental Management
Entry requirements
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Months of entry
February, October
Course content
In our forward-thinking course, you focus on environmental change on a local and global scale before exploring the principles and sustainable techniques underlying its effective management. You investigate cutting-edge biotechnological solutions at the forefront of modern innovation and, with our student-centred teaching, go on to assess how they work in practice via real-world projects and hands-on application. You also have the opportunity to explore your specialist interests with an MSc research project of your choosing.
Facilities and specialist equipment
- Contemporary STEM building with purpose-built facilities and bespoke study spaces
- High-tech cell culture lab and analytical science suite
- The latest industry-standard equipment to emulate the professional workplace
Industry links
The University’s Life Sciences Liaison Board collaborates closely with real-world organisations, ensuring our degree aligns with the needs of both industry and society as well as providing you with invaluable opportunities for networking and work experience.
Student experience
Study under the supervision of our highly qualified academic staff and learn from their active involvement in cutting-edge research and consultation.
Benefit from our varied teaching approach, combining lectures and tutorials with group work and laboratory sessions so you gain both theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience.
Develop key transferable skills such as project management; critical evaluation; modelling and statistics; communication; and social, ethical and legal understanding.
Benefit from interactive masterclasses and seminars delivered by industry experts.
Link theory to modern-day application with external visits to relevant sites such as Biogen, Rothamsted Research and the Centre for Alternative Technology.
We host an annual STEM Careers Expo, bringing together employers and students through presentations, workshops and networking sessions.
Fulfil your potential with guidance from your own personal academic tutor.
What will you study?
Studying our Environmental Management MSc course will equip you with in-depth knowledge and skills in the field of environmental studies, biotechnology and management. A large focus of environmental studies involves sustainable development, and this is where our unit in Environmental Management and Sustainability will allow you to critically analyse key theories relating to sustainable environmental management while also discussing different approaches to sustainably managing the environment and how to apply these methods to practical situations. This includes evaluating environmental and ecological surveys to assess impact and risk across terrestrial and aquatic environments.
You will also explore areas of biodiversity, biological processes and the sustainability of ecosystems in our Environmental Biotechnology unit. Your understanding of this topic will equip you with the skills and knowledge to deal with practical problems in the areas of food, energy, health and the environment using environmental biotechnology to sustainably manage global environmental change. To help you with this, you will be taught to integrate principles of management with the challenges of sustainability in running projects on both local and global levels in our Environmental Project Management unit.
On a broader scale, you will consider the effects of human action on Global Environmental Change and examine the magnitude and nature of how these physical changes will affect our ecosystems. You will engage in contemporary debates about environmental change as well as its causes and consequences. Finally, you will complete an Environmental Research Project that you can choose to explore through laboratory, management or field work in a chosen environmental topic of your interest. This will give you the opportunity to perform an independent research investigation and gain experience in professional scientific reporting with guidance from experienced researchers.
Careers
Graduates of this course can choose from a wide range of career paths in environmental science and management in the public and private sectors including environmental agencies and ecological consultancies; biotechnological environmental and agricultural research organisations; academic institutions; national and international government agencies and non-governmental bodies; and related business and industry including food security.
You also have the option of further study leading to PhD.
Information for international students
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Fees and funding
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Qualification, course duration and attendance options
- MSc
- full timeUp to 15 months
- Campus-based learningis available for this qualification
Course contact details
- Name
- Course Enquiries
- study@beds.ac.uk
- Phone
- 0300 3300 073