PGDip in Wildlife Conservation (Recanati-Kaplan) at University of Oxford

The Postgraduate Diploma in Wildlife Conservation is an eight-month, full-time course offered jointly by Oxford Lifelong Learning and WildCRU in the Department of Biology. It equips practitioners, particularly early-career wildlife researchers and field biologists in the developing world, with field survey, data analysis and reporting techniques used in the study of terrestrial mammals.

Faculty: Division of Life and Environmental Sciences / Oxford Lifelong Learning  |  Department: Department of Biology (WildCRU) and Oxford Lifelong Learning  |  Duration: 8 months (full time)  |  Intake: 10 October 2027  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Oxford, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

The first three months are predominantly taught; the remaining five months combine taught material with an independent research project analysing and reporting previously collected data that students bring or that WildCRU researchers provide. The project has two phases: a literature and methods review with data exploration, then full data analysis and discussion of results.

Career pathways

Graduates continue as field biologists and conservation practitioners in national wildlife management and protected area systems, NGOs or independent practice; many go on to further academic study within two or three years.

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