INSTITUTE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
What you could study at Brunel:
- MSc Environmental Science: Ecosystems and Human Health
- MSc Environmental Science: Pollution and Monitoring
- MSc Environmental Science: Legislation and Management
- MSc Environmental Science: Climate Change Impacts and Sustainability
We are experiencing global environmental changes due in part to human activity – this is big. The environment and the issues arising from changes are complex; the solutions must be less complex, more understandable, but there will be no ‘silver bullet’. It will be solved only when we have the collective skills and energy from all areas of human endeavour focussed upon maintaining and restoring the life giving ecosystems on this planet.
Environmental management needs professionals from all walks of life and all career stages. Whether you are just starting out or you are finishing a career – if you are keen to learn because redirecting your energies into the environmental management field is something of great interest to you, then let us help!
The Institute for the Environment offers postgraduate programmes in environmental science at Masters level, and combines its internationally renowned research activities in collaboration with industry and the public sector, to tackle environmental problems.
Brunel University has a long history of pioneering research into human impact on the environment dating back to 1978 when Professor John Sumpter established a research group to examine environmental toxicology. This work has now expanded into an Institute of internationally renowned researchers tackling environmental issues from a wide range of perspectives:
- Ecotoxicology
- Human health
- Environmental chemistry
- Clean process technology
- Waste and water treatment
Brunel University is situated just outside London. The University’s recent £250 million investment in campus facilities ensures you will have access to an excellent array of academic and teaching facilities, refurbished social space, world-class sports and fitness facilities and some of the best value accommodation in the Greater London and South East area.
For more information about the Environmental Science courses at Brunel please contact Maggie Wescott on +44 (0)1895 267666 or visit www.brunel.ac.uk/ife.
