Fieldwork Opportunities
Fieldwork Opportunities
One of the most exciting aspects of our degrees in the School of Biological Sciences is the range of local fieldwork opportunities we have on offer. If you are studying Biological Sciences, Zoology, Marine Biology, Microbiology or Environmental Management then you will have the opportunity to work in the field as part of your degree course. All exercises and assessments on field courses are inspired by the research interests of our staff.
Students gain core technical skills which allow them to have diverse careers, such as environmental consultants, ecologists, field technicians, research scientists, park rangers, natural resource managers and science educators.
Hear about the fieldwork experience
Hear from students on the BIO1305 field course as they investigate river health, collecting invertebrates and measuring water quality across multiple sites.
Our Field Courses
A 3-day residential course encompassing marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecology projects. Based at fantastic facilities at the Greenhill YMCA site, students travel up into the Mourne Mountains to assess water quality, examine species diversity and create mesocosm experiments on the shores of Strangford Lough and investigate the impact of disturbance on soil invertebrate communities at Mount Stewart.
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This is a non-residential first year field course, based in and around Belfast, which introduces students to skills that are crucial in environmental consultancy, conservation, and natural site management.
This course is run in collaboration with Botanic Gardens and in addition to learning about urban biodiversity, students will get hands-on experience of natural pest management and horticulture.
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A 5-day residential course based in the Gortin, Co Tyrone with visits to local farmland, lakes and rivers and Gortin Forest Park.
Working in small groups, directly supervised by a member of academic staff, students design and conduct a unique research project. Work is based in farmland, woodland, bogs, freshwater lakes and rivers and involves a wide range of taxa from plants to lichens, insects to mammals.
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1-week course based at our QUB Marine Lab, ideally located right on the shoreline of the beautiful Strangford Lough. As a Designated Special Area of Conservation, Strangford Lough enables students to study diverse coastal habitats, such as rocky shores and vast mudflats, protected species such as common seals, and the effect of the immense tidal flow in this unique habitat. This field course is designed specifically to enable Marine Biology students to put into practice everything they have learnt in lectures to study marine life in a practical, quantitative and progressive way.
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