University of Salford: SEE 2023 Environment

PROTECT OUR NATURAL WORLD

Geographers and environmental managers explore the world around us to assess how the needs of society can be balanced with ensuring a sustainable environment. As concern grows about climate change and the loss of biodiversity and ecosystems, we need more professionals to get to the heart of these issues facing humans and our natural world.

If you’re passionate about making a di erence, choose a study path that addresses our response to global challenges. Our academic teams deliver real-world environmental projects supported by industry partners, so our geography and environment-based courses integrate deep subject knowledge, applied technology and real-world research, enriched with perspective-changing placements and eld trips.

By choosing a degree in geography or environmental management with us, you will engage with issues such as sustainability, urban planning and liveability. You will explore river management, environmental change, climate change, remediation of contaminated land, sustainable development, and risk management.

So, if you see your future as a next-generation environment professional, start your journey with Salford. Read on and discover degree courses with a di erence.

Growing awareness about environmental issues, highlighted by leading voices such as Greta Thunberg and Sir David Attenborough, is leading to a major increase in career opportunities for graduates with an environment-based degree.

With the global push to be more sustainable, do less harm and alleviate the impact of ooding and pollution, both public and private sectors are opening up new roles for geography and environmental management graduates to apply knowledge and skills that can make a di erence for our world.

Geography graduates can nd careers working with environmental consultancies, utility companies, transport planning and property management. Some also choose to pursue careers in primary and secondary teaching, while others take their studies to postgraduate doctoral research in geographical and environmental disciplines.

Environmental Management graduates often secure roles with consultancies, local authorities and companies within the voluntary sector, concerned with environmental protection. More organisations are employing environmental managers to ensure that they comply with legislation and conform to standards.

ENVIRONMENT- BASED CAREERS

THE SALFORD EXPERIENCE

FIELD WORK

ACCESS TO INDUSTRY

Fieldwork is essential to every geography and environmental management course at Salford. The best news is that eld trips are funded by us (but you may need to consider additional costs such as food and spending money). We’ve aligned our trips with specialist modules, so you can develop applied skills and gain practical experience. You’ll participate in residential eld courses across the UK, in places on our doorstep such as the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, as well as further a eld at international locations, such as Scandinavia and Barcelona.

Collaboration with industry partners is an important part of our geography and environmental management courses. During your studies you’ll have the opportunity to learn about sustainable industry projects such as our on-campus IGNITION living lab, which aims to tackle the climate change using green infrastructure, as well as work with industry partners on a consultancy project module.

You’ll also have the opportunity to get involved with university-wide sustainable initiatives, like our Hedgehog friendly campus group, our #gogreensalford month promoting a variety of environmental goals, and lots of on-campus environmental events.

Our teaching evolves with industry developments. Our academic sta are experienced professionals, practitioners and researchers, active in their chosen eld. Current research areas include sustainability, spatial ecology, wildlife and sheries management, climate change mitigation, disease modelling and more.

ENVIRONMENTBASED DEGREE COURSES

Are you passionate about nding a career where you can make a positive impact on our environment? We’ve created a range of degree courses that focus on building contemporary knowledge and skills you will need to build a career where you can tackle emerging environmental and climate-change issues.

If you are fascinated by physical landscapes and exploring the natural processes that shape our natural environment, our BSc Geography (page 8) course will meet your expectations. Or chose a degree where you can help lead others in mitigating the e ect of climate change with a degree in Environmental Management (page 9).

Alternatively, if you want to combine the best of geography and environmental management, and have an immersive learning experience, then why not consider our innovative Environmental Geography degree (page 10). Choose between a year working in industry with the professional experience pathway, or an action-packed year gaining international perspectives with study in the USA.

FOUNDATION YEAR PATHWAY INDUSTRY PLACEMENTS

The foundation year entry pathway is an ideal study route if you don’t meet the criteria for direct entry to the honours degree course, if you are returning to education, or if you wish to change direction. Our foundation year will introduce key concepts, theories and principles, and help you to build essential higher education skills. On successful completion, you’ll be ready to join your chosen full honours degree course.

As one of the rst UK universities to introduce industry placements, we continue to champion this career-enhancing experience. On our geography and environmental management courses, you can include an industry placement between years two and three. By including a placement in your studies, you can apply the knowledge you’ve developed, build extra property and construction skills and stand out in the competitive graduate job market.

Climate change and its e ect on human and natural life is at the top of the news agenda. Gain a deeper understanding of how our natural world works and how we can protect and enhance precious natural resources and systems, with our professionally-accredited Geography degree course.

/ Learn about our natural world, how it works, climate change, glaciers, uvial processes and river restoration, and how they impact people and the environment

/ Develop your skills in data handling, environmental modelling and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for environmental problem solving

/ Build your experience working directly with industry organisations to solve live environmental problems to prepare you for your career

/ Gain practical experience though eldwork, with day trips to local national parks and overseas residential eld courses in the UK and abroad

UCAS points: 104–112

UCAS code: F800

Duration: Three years full-time; four years full-time with placement; up to six years part-time

Location: Peel Park

Featured content: / Earth Surface Processes / Environmental Resources / Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing / River Restoration and Management / Urban Sustainability

Include an industry placement Foundation year pathway

Course accreditations: This course is accredited by the Royal Geographical Society.

Explore the course: salford.ac.uk/ bsc-geography

Environmental management is about understanding the interrelationship between human activities and their environmental impact. Learn how to improve sustainability and minimise environmental degradation with our Environmental Management degree.

/ Develop your passion to help reduce the impact of climate change and make a di erence

/ Examine sustainable development and planning at local, national and global scales, and learn how to apply your knowledge to industry situations

/ Learn how to help organisations reduce their environmental impact, as well as how to make decisions to improve sustainability and minimise environmental degradation

/ Build your applied skills and gain practical experience through eldwork trips, aligned with specialist modules

UCAS points: 104–112

UCAS code: F904

Duration: Three years full-time; four years full-time with placement; up to six years part-time Location: Peel Park

Featured content: / Corporate Environmental Management / Geographical Information Systems and Science / Environmental Change / Occupational Risk Management / Consultancy Project

Include an industry placement Foundation year pathway

Explore the course: salford.ac.uk/ environmentalmanagement

Course accreditations: The Level 5 Occupational Risk Management module is accredited by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).

BSc (Hons) ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY WITH PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

There has never been a more urgent need to study the environment. If you are passionate about nding solutions where you can help to protect vital ecosystems, our BSc Environmental Geography with Professional Experience degree can give you the skills, knowledge and experience to make a di erence.

/ Study themes from across our geography and environmental disciplines as you build a comprehensive range of skills for a career in this exciting eld

/ Develop the knowledge, skills and experience to make a di erence and learn how to nd solutions to protect the environment

/ Put your knowledge into practice through an integrated industry placement with a key industrial partner or organisation of your choice during your second year of studies

/ Focus your studies with options that include environmental modelling, remote sensing, corporate environmental management, environmental decision making and sustainable cities

UCAS points: 112 UCAS code: F898

Duration: Three years full-time Location: Peel Park Featured content: / Sustainability and Environment / Earth Surface Processes / Mitigating Climate Change / Environmental Resources / People Place and Space

Explore the course:

salford.ac.uk/ environmental-geography

BSc (Hons)

ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY WITH STUDIES IN THE USA

The impact of climate change reveals the damage societies can knowingly and unknowingly make on our precious natural ecosystems. Gain the skills, knowledge and an international perspective about reducing the impact by studying our exclusive Environmental Geography with Studies in the USA degree course.

/ Build a hybrid skill set grounded in geography, geology and environmental management

/ Develop core geographical investigation skills and acquire the knowledge to respond and mitigate climatic and environmental changes

/ Spend your second year of studies at our partner institution in the USA, the University of Toledo in Ohio

/ Make new friends and a lifetime of memories, as you roam the physical and human landscapes of Ohio

UCAS points: 112 UCAS code: F899 Duration: Three years full-time Location: Peel Park

Featured content: / Sustainability and Environment / Earth Surface Processes / Mitigating Climate Change / Environmental Resources / People Place and Space

Explore the course: salford.ac.uk/ environmental-geography-usa