Environmental Sciences
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The Centre for Environmental Sciences is a collaborative enterprise operating across the University, with inputs from other science disciplines in the Schools of Biology, Geography, and Ocean & Earth Science, as well as the CES’s home school of Civil Engineering and the Environment.
Education
The Centre is the University’s hub for undergraduate and taught postgraduate degrees and courses in Environmental Science; it acts as a focal point for interdisciplinary research, providing links between traditional subject boundaries and seeking sound, well-founded solutions to environmental science problems.
CES offers both three-year (BSc) and four-year (MEnvSci) degrees in Environmental Sciences. Within each degree course, students follow a common core with specific subject pathways available within the contributing Schools. Our undergraduate Environmental Sciences degrees are consistently ranked in top 10 UK institutions for Environmental Sciences in the UK, and has an annual intake of about 60 students.
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We are pleased to offer supervision for students undertaking doctoral (PhD) research in environmental science, who benefit from the interdisciplinary focus of the Centre, which helps them to integrate different aspects of their research through collaboration with academic staff working in complementary fields.
Research
The Centre for Environmental Sciences carries out research under the auspices of the Environment Research division of the School of Civil Engineering and the Environment. Our research activities encompass many areas, although there is a common focus on the impacts and management of human activities on the natural environment.
Current areas of study include:
- Estuarine, marine and coastal ecotoxicology
- Risk assessment for genetically modified crops
- Applied avian ecology and conservation
- Coastal environmental change
- Communities, habitat, restoration and management of streams, rivers and urban ponds.
- Applications of remote sensing and geographical information systems for environmental monitoring
- Sand lizard habitat management and ecology
- Waste recycling, reduction and management
- Ecology and management of freshwater fish and fisheries
Please click below to download the the most recent editions of the ES Newsletter.
ES Newsletter - Issue 7: Student Projects Special ES Newsletter - Issue 8
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