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Students on this programme are taught through lectures and seminars and have the opportunity to work in wet and computing labs; fieldwork and project work are enhanced by a number of UK study trips; the programme has an important emphasis on developing students� practical skills and critical awareness of the problems of highly internationalised research fields; each student chooses from courses designed to provide them with the literary and quantitative skills necessary to pursue a biological career in any subject.
Key research skills; and research project; optional courses: evolution: pattern and process; programming in R; measuring biodiversity and abundance; conservation genetics and phylodynamics; introduction to Bayesian statistics; spatial processes; multi-species models; single-species population models; infectious disease ecology and the dynamics of emerging disease; phyloinformatics; animal ethics; animal welfare science; legislation related to animal welfare; enrichment of animals in captive environments; care of captive animals; biology of suffering; assessment of physiological state; freshwater sampling techniques; marine sampling techniques; vertebrate identification; invertebrate identification; and molecular analyses for DNA barcoding and biodiversity measurement.
| Starting | How long | Days you attend | Details | Where | Class info | Price |
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9 months |
Full time | No application date provided |
Glasgow, G12 8QQ |
N/A |
£3150 per year |
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*More info: £3150 per year |
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Taught
University of Glasgow
Epidemiology, Life Sciences, Ecology
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