Biology, Zoology and Biotechnology Postgraduate Research
We offer research degree opportunities across a range of biology and zoology areas. We make an impact in plant and microbial biology, ecology, and modelling, evidence and policy.
Our degrees
Research strengths
We offer opportunities to earn your PhD by doing postgraduate research in:
- conflict and synergies between human objectives and conservation interests
- co-creation of research to inform global biodiversity policy processes, especially on species conservation
- modelling disease in wildlife, livestock and human systems to identify mitigation
- enhancing resilience, productivity and quality of plants in natural and agricultural systems
- biotechnological routes to novel materials and processes, and production of sustainable chemicals
- systematics and evolution
Vital work
You can also get involved in the vital work we do in areas such as:
- working towards effective protected area networks and mitigation of anthropogenic mortalities
- developing sustainable agro-ecosystems
- examining the loss of ecological functions, such as:
- pollinators
- top predators
- fisheries
- coastal protection
- amenity values
- understanding the consequences of environmental change on the resilience of ecological networks
- how natural environmental systems can, or should be, valued
- how recent leaps in technology (e.g. DNA-metabarcoding) can assist analysis, monitoring, restoration and conservation of the natural environment
We've developed a system of measuring impact forest fragmentation has on animal species. This helps to inform conservation and restoration efforts.