Field Skills (Short Course)

Course overview

This course is full for the April intake. If you'd like to be put on our waiting list please email ecologists@bournemouth.ac.uk .

This course will help to develop your field observation and survey techniques, equipping you with the skills relevant to biodiversity conservation, monitoring and research. On the course you explore how these skills may be applied to support practical conservation and evaluate project management issues that relate to professional practice in field biology, habitat assessment and research. Through field-based research this field course, led by staff with a variety of specialisms, will address conservation issues in the varied coastal, freshwater and terrestrial habitats of Dorset and Hampshire, including the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, Poole Harbour and the New Forest National Park.

Take Three Courses and gain a Postgraduate Certificate …

In addition to the short course itself you have the option of undertaking further study and completing an academic assessment (an additional fee applies); on successful completion of this assessment you will gain 20 academic credits at postgraduate level (Level M). If you take an additional 2 courses (with the academic assessments) from our short course portfolio you will be awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Conservation Ecology.

If you choose to take the academic assessment option for this course - it will take roughly four months to complete (from your enrolment through to the submission deadline for your assessment).