Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 12 months full time
Feed the world whilst protecting our planet
Society is dependent on our ability to produce sufficient, nutritious food through agriculture. However farming practices have detrimental impacts on our environments, global biodiversity and climate. The increasing importance of sustainable agriculture is driven by the triple threat of growing global population, rising pressure on our environment and a changing climate.
This is a multidisciplinary programme, which builds on key strengths in sustainable agricultural research within our faculty and taps into the diverse expertise available across the wider University and beyond, including the Global Food and Environment Institute. A significant proportion of the teaching on this course is provided by academics from the Centre for Plant Sciences, a cross-faculty research centre of excellence in plant sciences.
You’ll be taught the fundamentals of sustainable agriculture from a wide range of perspectives, before moving on to cutting edge research topics. This will include an array of agricultural innovations, including environmental management and monitoring, sustainable livestock production, genome engineering and crop biotechnology.
As well as being exposed to the latest research in sustainable agriculture, with a significant component of practical work, field skills and training in relevant techniques, you’ll build a wealth of transferable research skills. This will prepare you for your advanced research project, working under the supervision of a world-leading academic or industrial expert. We also encourage work-embedded research projects with food production-related organisations globally.
The programme will prepare you for both PhD study and employment in a large range of industries that support agriculture and food production, propelling you into roles such as consultancy, policy, scientific monitoring and biotech, to name just a few. More generally, your skills would align strongly with a wealth of opportunities in business and government around sustainability, climate mitigation, decarbonisation and circular economies.
A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (hons) or international equivalent, in a relevant discipline such as biology, environmental science, food science, biochemistry, agriculture or crop and soil science.
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The program would align very strongly with the wide range of industries that support agriculture and food production, and with career paths in those industries. This includes (but is not limited to):
More generally, the program would align strongly with a wealth of opportunities in business and government around sustainability, climate mitigation, decarbonisation and circular economies.
Specific job titles might include: agronomist, industrial scientist, farm assessor, academic scientist (i.e. PhD student), agricultural policy adviser, agricultural technologist.
Year 1 compulsory modules
Global Challenges in Sustainable Agriculture 15
Crop Production in a Changing Environment 15
Sustainable Diets and Protein Production 15
Research Skills and Data Analysis 15
Crop Science & Plant Biotechnology 30
Agri-Environmental Monitoring, Economics and Policy 15
Circular Approaches to Sustainable Agri-food Systems 15
Masters Research Project 60
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