KEY FACT
Modes of study: Full or part-time study
Fees: Contact the Research Adminstrator for details of fees and bursaries
Entry requirements: A suitable undergraduate degree (minimum 2:1 or equivalent). Consideration will be given to good students with a 2:2 degree who also have relevant experience. A minimum level of competency in English is required. You need to be classed as an overall Grade 6.5 ('Competent User'), using the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). Alternatively, a minimum score of 575 is required using a paper-based Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) test or a minimum score of 232 for a computer-based TOEFL test.

Postgraduate Study

Examples of Research Programmes

Food Systems

  • Predicting bread wheat quality from the weather
  • Mycotoxins in cereals
  • Food ethics
  • Agri-food supply chain
  • Global food commodity markets and the agri-food supply complex, especially as applied to China

Agriculture in the context of climate change, environment and energy

  • Detoxification of agricultural wastes using sustainable technologies
  • Combined heat and power production from biomass and farm wastes
  • Soil and water
  • Reed bed regeneration
  • Improving the utilization of home grown forages
  • Fatty acid composition of meat and milk
  • Improving animal health, behaviour and welfare
  • Impact of agricultural systems on farmland birds
  • Effects of conservation tillage on soil biodiversity
  • Optimising agrochemical use and efficacy
  • Biological control of pests
  • Understanding the behaviour of four wheel drive agricultural tractor transmissions

Rural Business and Social Enterprise

  • Agricultural competetiveness, economic policy and the countryside
  • Rural regeneration
  • Women in rural enterprise
  • Care and rural enterprise