Biology and Zoology Postgraduate Research

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

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