Final year students hold poster fair at Harper Adams

Posted 17 January 2013

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Final year students studying Countryside, Environment, Leisure and Tourism (CELT) courses at Harper Adams University have staged an exhibition of their dissertation project posters.

Staff and other students were invited to attend the event on campus this week by Dr Richard Byrne, Senior Lecturer in the Land, Farm and Agri-Business Management Department.

Topics included agricultural pollution, game management, energy and much more.              

The annual event, which has been held by CELT for 10 years, offers fourth year students the chance to explain their dissertations and research methods to attendees and gather feedback.

Dr Byrne said: “It’s part of the criteria for Honours Research Projects but gives the students a chance to do an academic poster which is a good skill to have. It also gives staff and other students the chance to give feedback. 

“It has developed a lot over the years in terms of presentation. For us as tutors we also get to see that everyone is progressing well.”

One of the students taking part was 23-year-old James Irving, from Northamptonshire, whose dissertation is entitled ‘The relationship between game fish distribution and abundance in relation to migratory access on The Stanton Burn, Isle of Man’.

The Countryside Management student said: “The data has already been collected and the job is to collate 10 years of data. I’m analysing the data to see if there are any statistical differences.”

Another Countryside Management student, Colin Garner, from Wigan, was at the exhibition talking to staff and students about his dissertation entitled ‘An investigation into stakeholder and landowner perceptions on non-native invasive plant species within the River Bollin Catchment’.

The 28-year-old said: “This project links in with my work placement with Dunham Massey for the National Trust.”