Ecology and Environmental Management

As a PhD student in Ecology and Environmental Management at the University of Brighton, you will join a team of experts whose research informs real world change locally, nationally and globally.

From investigating interactions between large mammals and human populations, to developing new remote sensing approaches to assess global forest biomass, the Ecology and Environmental Management Ecology and Environmental Management staff at the University of Brighton University of Brighton and PhD students are at the forefront of global research challenges. We are also working to identify the impacts of climate change and invasive species on global wetlands, and assessing the factors that influence the spread of zoonotic disease.

Key facts

As an Ecology and environmental management PhD student at Brighton, you will

• benefit from a supervisory team comprising two or three members of academic staff. Depending on your research specialism you may also have an additional supervisor from another school, another research institution, or an external partner from government or industry.

• be provided with desk space and access to a desktop PC, either in one of the postgraduate offices on the 6th floor of the award-winning Cockcroft Building, or within the adjacent Huxley Building.

• benefit from access to a range of electronic resources via the University’s Online Library, as well as to the physical book and journal collections housed within the Aldrich Library and other campus libraries.

• be able to use various state-of-the-art research facilities on the Moulsecoomb site, including specialist microbial and water quality laboratories, hydraulic flumes, an experimental river basin, a water efficiency laboratory, geochemical and geotechnical laboratories, microscopy laboratories (optical and scanning electron microscopes), molecular ecology laboratories, ecology laboratory and greenhouses, as well as a large array of field equipment, including state-of-the art drones. All of these facilities are supported by a team of dedicated laboratory and workshop technicians.

Areas in which we are particularly interested in supervising include:

• Human impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity, including climate change and invasive species

• Management of freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems

• Marine, freshwater and wetland ecosystems

• Microbiology and zoonotic disease

• Molecular ecology and conservation biology

• Species ecology, interactions and behaviour

• Applications of remote sensing and GIS for disease movement, landscape/environmental management and modelling

• Air quality management

• Community engagement and training

• Waste management

• Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)