Environment Postgraduate Study
Amidst the turmoil brought by the pandemic, COP26 highlighted the climate crisis is the greatest challenge of our lifetime. Achieving net-zero emissions. Ensuring global health. Protecting previous ecosystems. There is so much we urgently need to do. Now is the time rebuild a sustainable planet.
If you are considering postgraduate study to either advance your career or take a new direction where you can better manage our environment, see where a environment-focused postgraduate degree with the University of Salford can take you.
Start an environment career path in 2022
Rising to the challenge of our perilous world, we offer a range of environment postgraduate courses that can be the start of your next journey. So, if you are looking to help organisation be more sustainable, or you want to drive policies to make a difference, see how we can help you achieve your goals.
Learn more about our range of environment-based postgraduate courses, explore course content and speak to the course teams, by attending our next Open Day
Go further with Salford
Refocus
Open up new career opportunities managing and shaping built and natural environments.
Specialise
Build specialist knowledge in areas such as sustainability, project management and digital transformation.
Prepare
Perhaps your plans are focused on environment research. If you no longer want to put off that brilliant idea, but you have been out of higher education for a while, one of our postgraduate courses can be perfect platform for future academic or industry-based research.
Environment postgraduate courses
The University of Salford is growing its teaching, research and consultancy services for environmental-management based practitioners. We've designed our courses help you to build professional practice knowledge, analyse the ‘big issues’ in environmental science and develop critical thinking.
Industry-focused approach
The professional practice element of our courses enables you to work with an external organisation on a specific project. This opportunity encourages you to develop a range of relevant and transferable skill in professional communication, project management and professional networking.
With an emphasis on authentic, experimental problem-based learning, our courses are shaped to upskill graduates and professionals who share our passion for creating better environments for everyone.
Research-informed learning
Our environment-based courses are delivered by academics and practitioners who are part of our Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre, a community supporting goals including achieving zero hunger, good health and well-being, clean water and sanitation, sustainable cities and communities, life below water, and life on land.
Our postgraduate courses all include research design and delivery. You will learn to plan and execute a programme of research and to analyse research results in a field and laboratory settings.
Environmental Assessment and Management (MSc)
- Explore management, technological and regulatory systems designed to reduce environmental risks
- Build legal, economic, social and scientific perspectives of environmental assessment and management
- IEMA accreditation enables course graduates to qualify for GradIEMA professional status
Health and Global Environment (MSc)
- Develop critical and analytical skills to manage a range of health-specific topics with global relevance
- Learn how to implement the theories behind health and the global environment
- Understand the role and impact stakeholders and institutions have in influencing global health
Safety, Health and Environment (MSc)
- Broaden your knowledge of both environmental and occupational health
- Develop skills relevant to modern Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) practice
- Learn how to undertake health, safety and environmental audits
Sustainability (MSc)
- Study topical issues, including food security, renewable energy, water security and waste management
- Explore best practice and radical approaches in delivering sustainability projects and practices
- Develop your theoretical and practical knowledge of global issues such as pollution and remediation
Wildlife Conservation (MSc)
- Explore current field methods and techniques used to measure and evaluate biodiversity
- Understand how invasive species and pathogens alter local ecological communities and biodiversity
- Develop skills to produce and interpret maps for conservation planning and monitoring
Environment postgraduate research
Take your subject interest further with postgraduate research.
Our Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre is home to PhD and Research Master’s opportunities exploring a range of topics, from energy and food security to ecosystem services and environmental assessment.
Explore our Doctoral School to learn more about research training, support and opportunities.
Postgraduate study with Salford
Our location
Located just 2km from Manchester city centre, we're at the heart of Greater Manchester - one of the most vibrant and diverse regions in the UK.
With a range of onsite parking, excellent public transport links and Salford Crescent train station a short walk from our enviable parkland campus, commuting here couldn’t be easier.
Fees and funding
A postgraduate qualification can help you stand out in a competitive job market. It’s a great way to invest in your future, which is why we’re committed to giving you the best student experience possible.
We've put together a summary of the essential fees and funding information covering tuition fees, postgraduate loans, potential scholarships and discounts.
How to apply
Whether you want to advance in your existing career, or build new skills to open up new opportunities, a postgraduate qualification with us can help you achieve your goals.
The majority of our postgraduate applications are made directly to us - and the application form can take as little as 20 minutes to complete. Start your journey today.
Open Day
A environment-based postgraduate degree with Salford is a rewarding investment in your future.
Learn more about our courses by joining our next open day - we have dates throughout 2022.
You can speak directly to course leaders, ask questions, explore course modules and consider your options.