Postgraduate courses in

Environment
2016-17

Studying Environment at Cranfield can fast

track your career in the green economy
Analytics
Environmental Data Science
Geographical Information
Management
Integrated Landscape
Ecology

Management
Economics for Natural Resource
and Environmental Management
Environmental Management for
Business
Environment and Public Policy
Environmental Risk Management

Resources
Environmental Engineering
Land Reclamation and
Restoration
Waste and Resource
Management

Reasons to study
Environment with us

Cranfield University
We are an exclusively postgraduate
university located at the heart of
the UK. Our closeness to industry
means we offer relevant, practical
teaching that is firmly based on our
transformational research.
Our passion for the areas we
operate in and our long-standing
relationships with some of the most
prestigious companies in industry
mean that studying at Cranfield will
open doors for you.

Our students:

4,350+
4,350+

Projects with industry

Learning from the

best academics

Over half:

81% of our research is world-leading

30+
or internationally excellent.
Come from
Study part-time
UK
No1 for engineering
and
outside
whilst in

tech
postgrads
employment

the UK

Are over
30 years
of age

Our courses are taught by active

researchers and subject specialists
who inform government and
industry, alongside guest speakers
from the environment sector.

Our Alumni:

A professional network of

58,000+

Studying Environment
at Cranfield
The world today and in the future faces environmental challenges at a scale never seen before.
These will impact across many sectors, and the issues are complex and will affect us all.
Environment courses at Cranfield address the crucial issues we face, such as environmental
change, natural risks, societal choices, and emerging technologies. Studying at Cranfield will
equip you with the skills required by employers tackling the transition to a low carbon economy.

Gain practical experience through

our group and individual projects
in collaboration with organisations
including the Environment Agency,
Network Rail and Ordnance Survey.

Research-informed
teaching
Our courses are informed
by our ongoing research in
the circular economy, clean
technology, resource recovery,
anaerobic digestion, urban landfill
mining, behavioural economics,
environmental risks, geospatial
analysis, ecosystem services, and
landscape dynamics.

Outstanding facilities

Latest technologies

Employment prospects

Industry relevant courses

Cranfield has exceptional facilities for

learning and research. These include
a sewage treatment works, rainfall
simulators, a 3D visualisation suite
and a soil and water engineering
laboratories.

Our students have access to marketleading geospatial software to help

generate information which is vital to
helping manage the earths resources.

Employers across the sector recognise

that Cranfield graduates are ready to
meet the immediate environmental
challenges in the workplace.

Our courses have been scrutinised by

advisory panels of leading professionals
and professional institutions to ensure
they are relevant and meet the needs of
employers.

I think this is the perfect course for someone with a background in

Ecology, Geography or Environmental Sciences, who is interested
in the landscape from an ecological perspective or in ecology
from a landscape level, and who wants to work (or enlarge his/her
knowledge) on landscape from a scientific and applied perspective.
Javier Bab Almenar, MSc in Integrated Landscape Ecology, 2014

Environment courses

Course information Analytics

Cranfield has been leading the development and implementation of methods for analysing and
sustainably managing environmental resources for over 40 years. We are making tangible impacts
on the environment, society and the growing green economy. We support government and business
in the ongoing move to a low carbon future. Our expertise covers many aspects of this diverse field;
from the circular economy to climate change, spatial modelling to environmental governance, and land
management to environmental engineering.

We offer three courses focused on the analytics discipline of Environment:

Our courses span environmental analytics, management and resource recovery.

Analytics courses teach you to derive information from data measured on the ground, in the air, or
from space, to monitor, model, and visualise complex environmental processes.
M
 anagement courses show you how to evaluate risk and formulate economic policy and societal
options to inform sustainable environmental decision-making for government and business.
R
 esource recovery courses help you to develop solutions to remediate, recover, and restore precious
environmental resources.
Whichever route you are interested in taking to achieve your career aspirations, Cranfield can provide
you with the best possible grounding for an environmental career.

Management

Resources

Environmental Data
Science

Economics for
Natural Resource and
Environmental Management

Environmental Engineering

Integrated Landscape
Ecology

Environment and Public

Policy

Geographical Information Management MSc/PgDip/PgCert

This course has been developed in collaboration with industry, and in response to increased global
demand for managers, advisors and consultants in geographic information. The integration of
geospatial technologies, including remote sensing and GIS, is a key theme running through the MSc.

Integrated Landscape Ecology MSc/PgDip/PgCert

This course concentrates on the effects of landscape structure and dynamics on the conservation
of biodiversity, provision of ecosystem services and sustainability of rural livelihoods. Through this
course we will provide professionals with integrated ecological and natural resource management skills
supported by a strong quantitative and spatial background.

Typically, our graduates go on to work in the following types of roles at organisations such as:

Analytics

Environmental Management
for Business

Environmental Data Science teaches key skills and techniques such as data mining, statistical
interpretation, visualisation and predictive analytics for handling big data. This helps with topics such
as climate change, flood risk assessment, geohazards and land degradation, transportation, disaster
response, recreation and property management.

Career prospects:

Environment

Geographical Information
Management

Environmental Data Science MSc/PgDip/PgCert

Land Reclamation and

Restoration
Waste and Resource
Management

Roles
Academic Researcher
Conservation Practitioner
Data Scientist
Geospatial Analyst
GIS Manager
Landscape Ecologist
Natural Resource Scientist
Remote Sensing Scientist

Organisations
Amec Foster Wheeler
Atkins
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Environment Agency
ESRI UK
Fugro GeoConsulting
Natural England
Network Rail
Ordnance Survey

Environmental Risk
Management

Course information Management

Course information Resources

We offer four courses focused on the management discipline of Environment:

We offer three courses focused on the resources discipline of Environment:

Economics for Natural Resource and Environmental Management MSc/PgDip/PgCert

Environmental Engineering MSc/PgDip/PgCert

This course provides graduates with an understanding of the complex relationship between economic
decision making and environmental impacts. Graduates develop the ability to identify and recommend
solutions for effective sustainable management.

This course is for scientists and engineers concerned with cross-disciplinary issues of environmental
protection and addressing the needs of modern urban societies. Graduates are equipped with the
multidisciplinary skills necessary to assess and manage the effects of natural and human activities in
rural and built environments.

Environmental Management for Business MSc/PgDip/PgCert

The aims of the course are to provide students with the knowledge and understanding of environmental
issues and policy, and the ability and skills to develop and implement strategies to respond to these
issues, in either the public or private sector within the context of business practices.

Environment and Public Policy MSc/PgDip/PgCert

Students gain excellent grounding in environmental science, sustainability, ecosystem functions and
environmental management. The course also covers the full suite of policy making tools to enable the
translation of science and environmental knowledge into effective and lasting policy. This opens up
opportunities in leading positions within government, think-tanks and NGOs.

Environmental Risk Management MSc/PgDip/PgCert

Global environmental change, natural disasters, pollution incidents and controversial technologies have
brought risk into the forefront of science, governance and the public eye. This course provides the tools
for graduates to understand, assess and manage the complexities of environmental risk at a strategic
and national level.

This course addresses the increasing challenges of agricultural land degradation as well as
those associated with restoring post-mining landscapes, brownfield sites, major civil engineering
developments and greenfield sites to amenity, natural habitat or agricultural end-use. It will provide
you with the knowledge and skills to enable you to design and implement appropriate, innovative and
sustainable soil and land management strategies.

Waste and Resource Management MSc/PgDip/PgCert

The waste sector has an urgent requirement for well qualified staff with management expertise who
can meet the challenges of the future sustainability agenda. This course equips you with the advanced
technical and managerial knowledge, skills and capabilities to meet the requirements expected of waste
managers in the industrial, government and consulting sectors.

Career prospects:
Typically, our graduates go on to work in the following types of roles at organisations such as:

Career prospects:
Typically, our graduates go on to work in the following types of roles at organisations such as:
Roles
Corporate Sustainability Manager
Environmental Consultant
Energy Analyst
Policy Analyst
Risk Manager

Land Reclamation and Restoration MSc/PgDip/PgCert

Organisations
Environment Agency
Defra
Meteologica SA
Nomura
Westminster City Council

Roles
Environment Planning Officer
Public Health Adviser
Reclamation Specialist
Resource Recovery Manager
Service Delivery Manager
Soil and Water Engineer

Organisations
Coal Authority
Golder Associated
Tarmac
Thames Water
Veolia
Wardell Armstrong

Accreditation:
Our courses are accredited by professional institutions including:

Industry connections

Academic staff

Cranfield has strong links with industry. Through these connections we contribute to global innovation, we
generate and transform knowledge, and use this knowledge to benefit society.

You will be taught by a wide range of subject specialists at Cranfield University and from outside the
University, who draw on their research and industrial expertise to provide stimulating and relevant input
to your learning experience. Two key members of the team are shown below:

Our students benefit from our extensive contacts and reputation for informing government and the
environmental sector. Our courses are reviewed each year by a panel of industry advisors from across all
sectors encompassed by our courses. In addition, many of our courses are accredited by professional
institutions to give you peace-of-mind and the recognition that you are industry-ready.
Cranfields Group Projects give MSc students the opportunity to develop practical skills and take
responsibility for a consultancy-type project with industry whilst working under academic supervision.
Some recent projects include:
Polytunnel detection for levy enforcement using satellite remote sending with AHDB Horticulture.
Estimation of carbon sequestration in reed beds in mine water treatment schemes for the Coal
Authority.
Working with the Environment Agency on sediment in natural flood risk management.
Modelling flood risk on the Network Rail infrastructure.
Adding value to Ordnance Survey maps.
Optimising the conversion of waste into bioenergy for VMP Waste Processing Limited.

Professor Elise Cartmell

Director of Environmental Technology
Elises research interests are associated with wastewater treatment with
special reference to hazardous chemicals and energy recovery from anaerobic
digestion. Over the past ten years she has established Cranfield as one of
the centres of excellence in the analysis, environmental fate and treatment of
hazardous chemicals and is on the steering group of the Water Utility Chemicals
Investigation (CIP) programmes. She leads the five year Severn Trent Wastewater
Framework Research partnership with Atkins and is an Associate Editor for
Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology and is on the editorial
board for Environmental Technology. www.cranfield.ac.uk/ecartmell
Tim Brewer
Senior Lecturer and Environment Programme Director, Senior Fellow of the Higher
Education Academy

Assessing quarry restoration for Tarmac at Dene and Dalton in Derbyshire.

Tims main research interest is land cover monitoring. Some recent projects
include remote assessment of soil sealing in urban environments, monitoring and
verification of illicit cropping in Afghanistan, and development of a GPS based
land use monitoring tool.
He has worked on research and consultancy projects in the UK and overseas, for
example, Jordan, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and works with many industrial
partners including Department for Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Foreign and
Commonwealth Office, Natural England, United Arab Emirates Government.
www.cranfield.ac.uk/tbrewer

We regularly collaborate with Cranfield University on research

relating to the legacy of historic mining. We find Cranfield staff
and students to be very responsive to our research needs.
Isla Smail, Research & Development Project Manager, The Coal
Authority

I feel that the courses focus on policy (enhanced by two field trips
to Westminster) prepared me for the challenges of implementing
environmental policies which I now see on a day-to-day basis.
The taught modules were very beneficial in terms of diversifying
my knowledge of the environmental field. I found the lecturers very
informative and supportive.
Katherine Mahoney, MSc Environment and Public Policy, 2014

Key facts and statistics

Course structure:
MSc structure
MSc courses comprise a series of taught modules,
a group project and an individual thesis project.
Taught modules 40%
You will undertake eight taught modules which
run from October to February,
providing you with
FULL
TIME
the essential knowledge
to undertake subsequent
project work.
Group project 20% PART
TIME
Group projects run from
February to April and
provide cross disciplinary teams of students with the
opportunity to take responsibility for a consultancy
type project, usually with
an industrial sponsor.
START

How to apply
Key facts:
FULL
TIME

PART
TIME

START
DATE

Entry Requirements:
Candidates must possess, or be
expected to achieve, a good UK
Honours degree in a range of
disciplines including biology, chemistry,
economics, environmental science,
geography, engineering or their
international equivalent. Other relevant
qualifications together with considerable
industrial experience will be considered.

1 year

Up to 3 years

October

English language and visa

requirements
International students must provide
evidence of English proficiency through
an English language test. We accept
IELTS, TOEFL, Pearson PTE Academic
or Cambridge English Scale.

MSc/PgDip/PgCert

DATE

Thesis project 40%

The final individual thesis project takes up the
remainder of the course to September. It allows
students to demonstrate their ability to think and
work in an original way and overcome genuine
problems in the environment.

Full-time fees*

Home/EU Overseas
MSc 9,000 17,500
PgDip 7,200 14,000
PgCert 3,600 7,000 CLASS SIZE

* For more fee information and part-time fees,

please see www.cranfield.ac.uk/fee-information

CLASS SIZE
Key student statistics across our environment
programmes:

AVERAGE
CLASS AGE

43% UK
35% EU
22% Rest of World

CLASS SIZE

Approx 15

Students requiring a visa to study in

the UK may need to apply for an ATAS
certificate.

The application process:

Visit www.cranfield.ac.uk/applications

Check the full admissions

requirements and application deadlines

Call us, meet us at an event or

email for advice on your suitability

Complete the online application form

Please visit our website for the latest

requirements.
Submit supporting admission
documentation with your application
or at a later date using our online portal

25 years
AVERAGE
CLASS AGE

Receive a decision on
your application by email

54% Male
46% Female

Bursaries and Scholarships

Cranfield University offers generous bursary and scholarship schemes with many students
from a full or part reduction in fees and/or contributions to their living expenses.
Students can apply for the Cranfield Environment MSc Bursary which is awarded at the course
directors discretion and is based on merit as well as considerations of financial need. Students
studying courses within the Environment MSc programme can also apply for prestigious
scholarships such as the Marshall Papworth Scholarship and Silsoe Heritage Scholarship. Students
wishing to be considered for a bursary or scholarship should indicate so in the financial details
section of their application. For further information on the support that is available please visit our
website at www.cranfield.ac.uk

AVERAGE
benefitting
CLASS
AGE

10

11

Location
Cranfield University is located on a tranquil and safe
campus. It offers just the place to focus on your
studies and work with people from all over the world.
There is plenty to do in the area outstanding
shopping in Milton Keynes and Bedford and
historical cities such as Oxford and Cambridge are
nearby. There are several sports and entertainment
complexes in Milton Keynes, including the countrys
biggest indoor ski slope. Day trips to London are
easy and several airports are within easy reach
making a gateway to explore the rest of Europe.
The campus is located just outside the village of
Cranfield on the Bedfordshire-Buckinghamshire
border, between Milton Keynes and Bedford and
is conveniently situated between London and
Birmingham. Luton is only half an hour away.
By air: London Luton, London Heathrow London
Stanstead, East Midlands and Birmingham airports
are within 90 minutes drive from campus. The
campus also has its own business airport, used
by corporate, private and charter aircraft owners.

Birmingham
Bedford
Milton Keynes

Cranfield
Birmingham
Bedford

London

Bicester
Oxford

Cambridge

Cranfield

Milton Keynes

Luton

Heathrow

Stanstead

London
Brighton

By rail: You can travel to Londons St Pancras

International station on a direct line from Bedford
and Luton in approximately 40 minutes. This line
also carries on to Brighton and the south coast,
which will take approximately 2 hours. Milton
Keynes is 35 minutes from London and 55 minutes
from Birmingham on the London Euston
to Glasgow west coast main line rail link.

35 minutes from London to Milton Keynes by train

55 minutes from Birmingham to Milton Keynes by train

By road: Cranfield campus is located ten minutes

from the M1 motorway and can be accessed from
either junction 13 or 14 of the M1.
To see more about how to find us and see the
campus layout visit www.cranfield.ac.uk/visit

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