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Student Research Projects
All of our Environmental degrees feature an independent research project as a key
component of the final year. In consultation with an academic member of staff
(a research mentor and advisor), students devise and complete a research project
that generates new data on an important environmental or wider sustainability
topic that is of particular interest to them.
Many students use this as an opportunity to engage
and work with environmental professionals. Examples
of projects undertaken by students on our environment
programmes include:
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Bat roost surveys on the Trentham Estate, Staffordshire
Effects of air pollution on lichen distribution
Carbon footprint of business travel
Water toxicity to invertebrates
Effects of climate change on earthworms
Influence of environmental factors on mental well being
Food waste sorting and energy savings
In recent years academic staff teaching the environmental
courses have been highly successful in gaining external
funding from the Nuffield Foundation, The Royal Society
of Chemistry and the Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund to
support undergraduate research projects over the summer
and provide our students with first-hand, ‘real world’
research experience.
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