Our fieldwork programme is taught by a cross-disciplinary team of academics whose world-leading research explores and addresses a range of environmental challenges.
You gain experience of hands-on research, investigating critical contemporary challenges of environmental and human impact in a wide variety of environments in the UK and/or overseas.
Past field trip locations include
Sweden
,
Greece
and a diverse range of environments in the UK. You will learn about issues including threats to and the importance of peatland, managing environmental risk, marine pollution, the impacts of wildfire, and addressing the climate and biodiversity crises.
You will have the opportunity to get hands on fieldwork experience and gain professional skills including project design, data collection and analysis, and teamwork skills.
Our main residential fieldwork takes place just after Easter in the second year of study. Non-residential fieldwork also features in many core and optional modules across all stages, and makes use of the stunning and varied local environments of south-west England.
In your final year, environmental science and environmental management students can join multidisciplinary teams of geographers, environmental chemists, and earth scientists to
investigate sustainability issues
in a study location overseas and then tackle a core issue through a research project of their own creation.
For the academic year 2025/2026, fieldwork will be based in Namibia, South West Africa, working with scientists from the Gobabeb Research Institute and local communities. The fieldtrip, focused on issues related to the Sustainable Development Goals, will take place in the spring of 2026.
We believe that worthwhile and responsible international travel provides an important context for learning in-situ about different landscapes and environments. Our field trips comply with the British Standard (BS 8848) for educational activities abroad.
A supplementary cost may apply to some destinations.
More details of any additional costs associated.
Environmental Science Programme Leader
