New Graduate School for the Environment

Three of the UK's top centres for environmental and agricultural research have joined together to create a unique school for graduate research and training based at Lancaster University. The Lancaster Environment Centre , one of the UK's most highly ranked university departments for environmental research, Rothamsted Research , the world's oldest agricultural research station, and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) , a world-leading institute focusing on land and freshwater ecosystems and their interaction with the atmosphere, have formed a graduate school focused on the big environmental challenges of the day. Between them the three institutions have more than 200 PhD students, one of the largest cohorts in the country, and access to a huge range of expertise, equipment, facilities, and experimental field sites - including the world's longest running grassland field site and some of the world's biggest environmental data sets. Launching on October 19, the new school - which encompasses students studying for Masters, PhD and Professional qualifications - is founded on long-term research collaborations between the three institutions. Students undertaking a PhD or Masters by Research will have the unique opportunity of focusing upon a specific area of in-depth research, while also contributing the expertise that they develop towards addressing one or more of the major environmental challenges that the graduate school is tackling. Postgraduate students studying taught masters will also gain a wider range of opportunities, both for dissertation projects and through easier access to internationally renowned experts and cutting-edge equipment in all three centres.