Professional development > Environmental conservation

Online, residential, face-to-face and distance courses, training and professional development, drawing on Oxford's leadership, exceptional experience and reputation for high quality teaching in ecology, environmental conservation and wildlife management.

Our programming is aimed at environmental consultants, professional and volunteer conservationists, field-based conservationists, conservation educators, those working in environmental impact assessment, conservation or wildlife management in local government or NGOs,; and those involved with deciding or influencing policy making. Our aim is to provide up-to -the-minute and focussed provision in skills and environmental themes of global and local urgency, highly relevant to those operating within this Sector, and to those who wish to make the transition into it.

Our programme for 2012-13 includes a series of themed 1-day courses (download our pdf leaflet: depending on the course(s) you select, these will offer you essential background ecological understanding across a wide range of topics.

Plans are currently underway to re-define our delivery over the next few years. We warmly welcome any thoughts/feedback you might wish to offer; we would be delighted to feed these into our process of review. Please take a minute or two to complete our online questionnaire.

• Short courses in environmental conservation
  • An Introduction to EIA and Strategic Environmental Assessment
  • Conservation in the App Age
  • Data Analysis in Ecology (with credit)
  • Development of Global Agriculture and Agricultural Policy
  • Economics of Climate Change
  • Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services
  • Evidence-Based Conservation: Case Studies
  • Field Techniques for Surveying Birds (for credit)
  • Field Techniques for Surveying Fish & Amphibians (for credit)
  • Field Techniques for Surveying Invertebrates (with credit)
  • Field Techniques for Surveying Mammals & Reptiles (with credit)
  • Field Techniques for Surveying Vegetation (with credit)
  • GIS as a Tool in Conservation
  • Grassland Ecology and Management
  • Impacts of Agriculture on the Environment: Case studies of coffee and forestry
  • International Climate Change: Law and Policy
  • Politics and the Environment: State and Non-state actors
  • Site Evaluation and Management Planning
  • UK Agriculture: Sustainability and Policy
  • Woodland Ecology and Management
• Undergraduate Diploma in Environmental Conservation
• Undergraduate Advanced Diploma in Environmental Conservation
• Ecological survey techniques
• Postgraduate Diploma in International Wildlife Conservation Practice

Designed for busy professionals and practitioners from the UK and overseas, this cluster of learning opportunities deals with principles and techniques at the local, national and global scales, and provides the skill and understanding needed to contribute effectively to conservation research and action. Research-led teaching is provided by specialists in their field, and tutors are drawn from both academia and the wider Sector. The diversity of students' own experience enriches lively course topic-inspired debate, both face-to-face, and online.