MSc in Water and Environmental Management

This programme provides the skills and knowledge required for a career in water and environmental management. You will acquire academic and practical skills, as well as developing a detailed knowledge of fundamental environmental processes, and the ways in which these need to be managed sustainably. A considerable part of the programme is taught by leading practitioners including personnel from the Met Office, the Environment Agency of England and Wales, and Defra (UK Department of Food and Rural Affairs).

Core units

This stage provides a common platform of underpinning skills and knowledge at Postgraduate Certificate level in the basics of water and environmental management. The units aim to provide you with research, mathematics and computing skills, together with a firm understanding of fundamental processes that govern water movement through the atmosphere, atmosphere-biosphere interactions, and water flows through river catchments. The stage concludes by exploring how this fundamental understanding leads to environmental management, policy and legislation at local, national and international levels.

Core units include:

• Research Skills
• Introduction to Environmental Statistics using MATLAB
• Numerical Analysis using MATLAB

Optional units

This stage provides a specialist knowledge to Postgraduate Diploma level in a range of carefully chosen options. You choose two units from the following list:

• Environmental Systems and Ecosystems Services
• Integrated Catchment Management
• Water Resources Engineering
Please note: Availability of elective modules is subject to sufficient demand.

Dissertation

The programme is completed with the submission of a research-based dissertation. Further information is available on our website.