Environmental Science & Sustainability Undergraduate Programmes 2020 2020 Entry | Page 5

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY | 5 Why Study the Environment at Keele University? Without a functioning environment, we can’t have a functioning economy or society. For many of the major issues facing society today, solutions can only be achieved through a thorough understanding of environmental processes and the complex relationships between the environment and society, alongside an understanding of best management practices and the creativeness and vision to generate sustainable future solutions. Our environmental programmes cover highly topical and diverse themes such as ocean acidification, environmental politics and policy, water pollution, clean technology, soil conservation, resource depletion and degradation, biodiversity loss and extinctions, and global environmental change. All of our programmes are interdisciplinary in nature and draw on the expertise of environmental specialists working in the fields of environmental science, geoscience, life science, chemical science, politics and international relations, psychology, business management, and health. All organisations, from private business to local government, increasingly need to engage with environmental and sustainability issues, hence this is a major area of employment opportunities, both within the UK and overseas. By choosing to study our IEMA and IES accredited courses you’ll have access to a range of benefits that will help you to stand out when you enter the job market, including: • Free student membership of the IES and IEMA LUCY TALBOT (FIRST YEAR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE STUDENT) “Even though it is only my first year, I have already fallen completely in love with my course. It has helped push me out of my comfort zone and get involved in so many sustainability projects around campus. Amazing lecturers get you infused into the course and makes the whole studying environment so much better! It is definitely the right course for me”. • Access to career services, mentoring schemes and employability workshops • Access to publications, webinars, news and resources • Graduates with IES accreditation can use the post-nominals StMIEnvSc up to the end of the calendar year in which they graduate, signalling their professional commitment to potential employers • Opportunities to network with like- minded members across the globe. • IEMA offers tailored IEMA training to help expand awareness of key sustainability issues. Please go to pages 18 and 19 so find out more about what some of our graduates have progressed on to after graduation. GGE- UROP (UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAMME) This programme allows students to gain experience of research outside their studies whilst further enhancing their employability. This is a competitive application process and, if sucessful, students will undertake a research project with a member of staff from the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment. keele.ac.uk/gge