Overview
As a postgraduate researcher, you will join an interdisciplinary group, within the School of Life Sciences, which is well-connected with industry and fellow research institutions worldwide. PhD candidates are encouraged to take an active role in the School's research community in areas currently spanning global change ecology, conservation, and animal behavior and welfare.
Additional Descriptions
We have a large multidisciplinary academic team ready to support you in your studies working across our two groups, Applied Ecology Research Group (AERG) and Behavioral Ecology Research Group. By combining this expertise with wider specialisms we’ve been able to create exciting projects addressing today’s key issues. As a result, our research has had a real impact on the human-dominated and ‘natural’ landscapes, from furthering scientific understanding to shaping environmental policy and practice.
In the Applied Ecology Research Group, our primary focus is to assess, understand and mitigate anthropogenic impacts such as plastic pollution, climate change, invasive species, agriculture, and urbanization, on biodiversity and ecosystem services in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. We use a range of modern tools, including ecological network analysis, ecosystem modeling, satellite tracking, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) along with interdisciplinary techniques, such as combining the disciplines of biology and ecology with molecular biology, biogeochemistry, and microbiology.
The Behavioral Ecology Research Group is an active community with core areas of interest currently including animal communication, cognition, social behavior, and animal welfare. We cover a wide range of study organisms, including mammals, birds, insects, crustaceans, fish, and cephalopods. Our research involves fieldwork in many countries and we also carry out work in museums, zoos, and laboratories.
With our wide-ranging expertise, we're well-placed to provide the specialist supervision you need for your project, within an inspiring research community that values and involves its postgraduates.
As part of your program, you’ll enjoy formal research training and opportunities to gain experience working with conservation NGOs and others based in Cambridge.
There will be opportunities to present your work and represent us at internal, national and international scientific conferences, and you'll be fully immersed in the groups research activities. We also encourage cross-discipline interaction with other research groups in our University.
In addition to our Biology PhD, we've also identified a range of innovative research project opportunities for you as a postgraduate researcher.
Your faculty
The Faculty of Science & Engineering is one of the largest of the four faculties at Anglia Ruskin University. Whether you choose to study with us full-time or part-time, on-campus or at a distance, there’s an option whatever your level – from a foundation degree, BSc, MSc, PhD or professional doctorate.
Whichever course you pick, you’ll gain the theory and practical skills needed to progress with confidence. Join us and you could find yourself learning in the very latest laboratories or on field trips or work placements with well-known and respected companies. You may even have the opportunity to study abroad.
Everything we do in the faculty has a singular purpose: to provide a world-class environment to create, share and advance knowledge in science, technology and engineering fields. This is key to all of our futures.
We’ll provide high-quality supervision formally and informally, so you can get the most from your program - and we’ll fully involve you in our calendar of research meetings, seminars and workshops.
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