环境人类学（MSc）

环境人类学是关于社会如何受到环境影响以及它们如何管理自然资源和危害的跨学科研究。该计划为您提供了机会，以获取有关人类在环境，生物多样性管理，可持续发展，环境变化和此类知识的实际应用方面的问题的高级知识，以了解不同社会如何受到环境影响并管理自然资源和危害。作为该计划的毕业生，您将拥有一系列实践和评估技能，以及进行经验或其他应用研究的经验。这使您可以从事研究人员的工作，并会告知您将来担任的任何职位。您的专业知识将在包括国家或国际环境机构，政府部门和非政府组织在内的许多组织中受到欢迎。
Environmental Anthropology is an interdisciplinary study into how societies are influenced by the environment and how they manage natural resources and hazards.This programme offers you the opportunity to acquire advanced knowledge of how different societies are influenced by the environment and manage natural resources and hazards, in relation to issues in human ecology, biodiversity management, sustainable development, environmental change and the practical applications of such knowledge.As a graduate of this programme, you will have a range of both practical and evaluative skills, and experience of conducting empirical or other applied research. This allows you to pursue work as a researcher and will inform whatever position you take up in the future. Your expertise will be welcome in a range of organisations including national or international environmental bodies, governmental departments and nongovernmental organisations.<br><br>To provide you with a broad range of knowledge in environmental anthropology, a major sub-division of anthropology, showing how it is closely linked to other academic disciplines.to provide you with advanced level knowledge of the theoretical, methodological and policy issues relevant to understanding the subdiscipline.introduce you to a variety of different approaches to environmental anthropology research, presented in a multidisciplinary context and at an advanced level.provide an appropriate training if you are preparing MPhil/PhD theses, or if you are going on to employment involving the use of research methods and results in environmental anthropology.cover the principles of research design and strategy, including formulating research questions or hypotheses and translating them into practicable research designs.introduce you to the philosophical, theoretical and ethical issues surrounding research and to debates about the relationship between theory and research, about problems of evidence and inference, and about the limits to objectivity.introduce you to the idea of working with other academic and non-academic agencies, when appropriate, and give you the skills to carry out collaborative research.<br><br>As a School recognised for its excellence in research we are one of the partners in the South East Doctoral Training Centre, which is recognised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). This relationship ensures that successful completion of our courses is sufficient preparation for research in the various fields of social anthropology. Many of our students go on to do PhD research. Others use their Master's qualification in employment ranging from research in government departments to teaching to consultancy work overseas.<br><br>The School has a very good record for postgraduate employment and academic continuation. Studying anthropology, you develop an understanding of the complexity of all actions, beliefs and discourse by acquiring strong methodological and analytical skills. Anthropologists are increasingly being hired by companies and organisations that recognise the value of employing people who understand the complexities of societies and organisations.