Conservation and Biodiversity at Lancaster University at Main

Lancaster's Conservation and Biodiversity Masters offers great flexibility, with a wide choice of topics from across disciplines, enabling students to construct a program that suits their individual interests and career ambitions in this increasingly important field.

Students 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, students will gain and develop the key skills that are valued by employers, such as field skills on species identification, sampling and monitoring, and more generic skills in problem solving, report writing, data analysis and presentation.

Students will complete six taught modules delivered by world-leading researchers from the university's three internationally-renowned partner organisations: Lancaster Environment Centre, Rothamsted Research and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. This gives them the opportunity to interact with a wide range of expert specialists, including conservation biologists, terrestrial, marine and lake ecologists, food security biologists, and earth observation geographers. 

Several modules include field trips to the beautiful and topographically varied countryside around Lancaster, and beyond.  If students want to travel further afield, the department has research projects and partners across the globe that provide exiting opportunities when it comes to selecting a dissertation project.