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We have a range of Undergraduate, Postgraduate Taught, and Postgraduate Research opportunities available.

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BSc (Hons) Environmental Science & Sustainability

Accredited by the Institution of Environmental Sciences and based at our Dumfries Campus, Environmental Science & Sustainability utilises fieldwork, organisations and lab practicals to demonstrate environmental work in practice.

Fieldwork and practical experience are at the core of this programme, providing you with valuable skills for a career in the environmental sector. Our Dumfries campus is located close to a range of natural resources, unique fieldwork environments and placement providers: a diverse outdoor laboratory only minutes from the classroom.
 
You will develop a range of skills in environmental management techniques, preparing you to enter the graduate job market in a wide variety of roles concerned with implementing sustainability objectives. The combination of a broad-based education with specialist input, supplemented with real work experience, will equip you with essential skills.
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The Perfect Location

We are uniquely located for the study of Environmental Science and Sustainability with easy access to estuarine, maritime and terrestrial environments. These features together with the extensive agricultural and forested environment of the region present a vibrant and diverse ‘laboratory’ in which to study; having these appealing features on the doorstep cannot be claimed by most other institutions offering an environmental undergraduate degree!

BSc (Hons) Environmental Science and Sustainability

BSc (Hons) Environmental Science and Sustainability

Hear what some of our students had to say about placement opportunities on our Environmental Science and Sustainability programme.

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Placement Opportunities

The applied, practical approach taken in Environmental Science and Sustainability, coupled with experiences gained through the placement, will equip students with essential qualities for working in public, commercial or voluntary environmental organisations. Our students travel the world with their placements.

We offer a variety of Postgraduate Taught programmes; taught at the School of Social & Environmental Sustainability, Dumfries Campus.

Our Postgraduate Programmes

 

MLitt Environment, Culture & Communication

This programme explores the relationships we hold with our ‘wild’ environments, and how these evolved. You will develop a knowledge of environmental debates from both cultural and scientific perspectives, and learn to communicate environmental issues using a variety of tools and strategies. The programme is suitable for students with or without a specialism in literary or environmental studies. Dumfries & Galloway, in south west Scotland, is an ideal location for environmental study and research. The unspoilt beaches, hills and forests provide a stunning and diverse outdoor classroom, while the region’s thriving artistic community, which specialises in environmental art, is a source of inspiration.

 

MSc Environmental Risk Management

This interdisciplinary programme will allow you to acquire an in-depth understanding of how risks from natural hazards materialise and affect societies globally and to develop conceptual and analytical skills to assess and propose innovative solution. The programme is delivered through a mixture of approaches including lectures, seminars, field classes and experiential learning. Students have the opportunity to undertake a work placement with a wide range of organisations and apply theoretical and practical skills developed throughout the core courses.

 

MSc Management & Sustainable Tourism

This Masters will provide you with an understanding of the contemporary issues impacting on the tourism industry and will explore the cultural, environmental and sustainability dimensions of rural and urban tourism. By the end, you will have the managerial and service-related knowledge to develop culturally, environmentally and sustainably aware destinations. You will learn in both an urban and rural setting at the Gilmorehill Campus in the West End of Glasgow and our beautiful Dumfries campus in the South West of Scotland.

We would particularly welcome applicants with an interest in taking postgraduate research degrees (PhD) within our research focuses:

  • Ecology
  • Biodiversity and conservation
  • Ecosystems and ecosystem services
  • Environmental education
  • Embedding sustainability within the curriculum
  • The ecotoxicological impacts of microplastics and other novel contaminants
  • The formation and distribution of microplastics
  • Ecological restoration
  • Community land ownership
  • Upland management
  • Sustainable rural tourism
  • Resilience of coastal and deltaic social-ecological systems
  • Water pollution and risks to people and ecosystems
  • Climate extremes and water hazards
  • Hydrological modelling and forecasting
  • Hydrologic deep learning
  • Groundwater and surface-water interactions