Location
Streatham Campus, Exeter
Programme overview
New in 2011, 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 skills in the science of climate change impacts and feedbacks and their implications for mitigation and adaptation to climate change. The programme is suitable for those wishing to gain a broad understanding of aspects of climate change science but offering specialisation in a focused area of research and the option of pursuing this within a practice-based setting in a work placement.
The core programme develops understanding of current themes in climate change science and develops knowledge and understanding of key data sets and research skills in climate change impacts and feedbacks. You will undertake either an extended research project or a practice-based project for an external organisation. Research projects are carried out in close collaboration with research groups in Geography, linked to ongoing major international research investigations. 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 programme 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 over the next three years and tackling some of the biggest global problems of the 21st century.
