Location
Streatham Campus, Exeter
The MRes Climate Change Impacts and Feedbacks is a research or practice-led qualification ideally suited to those wishing to achieve a high level of skill in the science of climate change impacts and feedbacks and their implications for mitigation and adaptation to climate change. The programme is suited if you wish to gain a broad understanding of aspects of climate change science, but also offers the opportunity to specialise in a focused area of research within a practice-based setting in a work placement.
You will develop an understanding of current themes in climate change science and knowledge of key data sets. You will also gain research skills in climate change impacts and feedbacks, and undertake either an extended research project or a practice-based project for an external organisation. Practice-led projects link you with an external organisation to produce a high level consultancy report on climate change impacts and adaptation.
There are opportunities to pursue fieldwork in the UK and overseas as part the project; current projects include work in New Zealand, Canada and the USA, Bolivia, Brazil and Scandinavia. As a graduate of the MRes Climate Change Impacts and Feedbacks you will be well placed to enter careers in climate change science and policy in the public and private sector or to continue to further research towards a PhD.
The MRes programme, which has a smaller taught component to the MSc of the same title, is built on international excellence in key areas of climate change science based in the Landscape and Ecosystem Dynamics and Environmental Change research groups. Staff and postgraduates are also part of the University’s interdisciplinary Climate Change and Sustainable Futures initiative; one of five science themes receiving an investment of £80 million to tackle some of the biggest global problems of the 21st century.
