Ecology and Wildlife Conservation BSc (Hons)

Overview

At BU, we recognise that placements are extremely valuable and can give you a head start when it comes to your future career, therefore we will be offering every new student the opportunity to undertake an industrial placement from 2012.

You will carry out a 5-week placement, at the end of the first and second year which enables you to put the scientific and business theory you have learnt into practice.

The School has important links to outside agencies and organisations to best support you along your professional development. We have an in-school Placement Officer who will assist you in finding a placement as well as a database of nearly 900 organisations who have acted as hosts for our students in previous years.

Placements may be paid, although some employers may offer expenses only. A number of students have secured placements through the STEP project, which guarantees payment for an eight-week placement.

Recent placement organisations have included Wildlife Trusts, the National Trust; the Royal Society of the Protection of Birds and with environmental consultancy firms. Other students have chosen to do placements with international organisations working on a range of conservation issues such as orangutan conservation in Borneo, bear conservation in America, or the conservation of rain forest and coral reefs in a number of sites across the globe.