MSc Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology

Location

This programme is run at the Cornwall Campus, near Falmouth

Programme overview

• Delivered by leading international researchers in the Centre for Ecology and Conservation, who regularly publish in peer-reviewed journals
  
• Designed to prepare you for a future research career with excellent graduate employment opportuniteis. In the first year of operation, 78 per cent of our students had secured a PhD position before finishing the programme
• Provides extensive training in current research techniques
• Develops knowledge and critical awareness of current problems and new insights in evolutionary and behavioural ecology, much of which is at, or informed by, study at the forefront of the field
  
• Offers access to excellent facilities including state-of-the-art molecular and genetics labs with a full range of microscopy equipment, greenhouses, aviary and controlled environment rooms

This MSc is taught by the Centre for Ecology and Conservation (CEC), whose evolutionary and behaviour research groups are amongst the most dynamic in the UK. As an MSc student you will be integrated into these groups and conduct cutting-edge research projects that aim to make genuine contributions to the field of evolutionary and behavioural ecology. The goal is to prepare you for a future research career.

The Centre is the fastest growing institute of its kind in the UK and an integral part of the School of Biosciences at the Cornwall Campus. Research is almost exclusively organismal, with particular emphasis on social mammals, birds, turtles and insects. We also specialise in modelling animal behaviour and species interactions and see this as essential and complementary to our whole approach. The other area of emphasis which underpins much of our work is quantitative and molecular genetics; fundamental to the evolutionary process and to conservation biology and policy issues.