Program Overview

Course overview

You will study a core module in countryside management, complete a research project, and choose five elective modules tailored to your interests and career aspirations. There is flexibility built into the course meaning that part-time students in employment can complete a work-based research project and reduce the time required for campus-based modules.

You will also have the opportunity to undertake research field trips, with previous destinations including Costa Rica for ecology and Orkney to explore heritage. This will incur an additional cost.

Graduates have gone on to work at nationally-recognised organisations such as Natural England, Historic England, The National Trust and The Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group.

Industry experience

You will benefit from the numerous links with colleagues who work in the countryside sector, both through field visits and visiting guest lecturers. Your research project will give you great opportunities to work directly with industry partners. Previous examples have considered how to manage habitats at the landscape scale for adders and how to protect vulnerable sites through use of appropriate signage.