University of Cumbria
Global & Local Sustainability Research
by post-graduate students
in the National School of Forestry & the Centre for Wildlife Conservation, University of Cumbria We
work around the world on forestry, wildlife and conservation issues,
whether it is investigating biodiversity impacts of oil palm
plantations in Sabah, scent marking behaviour of bears in Canada,
pandas in China and tigers in India or the genetics of Nautilus on the
Great Barrier Reef off Australia.
Closer to home, we are
working with rural communities on local issues such as installing
renewable energy production, measuring carbon in upland woodlands,
excluding grey squirrels from surviving areas of red squirrels or
encouraging butterflies in biomass production woodlands.
Follow our work on our
blog.
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Brunel University
Brunel
has always prided itself on the quality and the relevance of its
academic work. It places great value on its pure investigative research
but has also always valued the usefulness of its research to the
community at large. This is why collaboration with major companies, the
public sector, charities, national institutions and with countries
worldwide is an essential element of so much of its research activity.
Brunel has always been confident that its courses bear comparison
with the best and teaching quality assessments by the Government`s
Quality Assurance Agency prove it. Since 1997, every subject that has
been inspected by the QAA has been graded `excellent`. What is more,
the QAA`s institution audit last May commended the University in a
broad range of learning and teaching areas and gained a vote of `broad
confidence` - the highest possible rating - in its report.
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