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Postgraduate Study Opportunities at Warwick HRI The University of Warwick | |||||||||||
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The University of Warwick has an outstanding reputation for research and teaching and is consistently ranked among the top universities in the UK. We have excellent facilities and resources for learning alongside world-class researchers and academics.
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Taught Degrees
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| MSc Environmental Bioscience in a Changing Climate - New for 2009 | |||||||||||
 Why choose this course? Humankind harnesses a multitude of natural resources for the provision of food, fibre, energy and recreation. Many of these resources have become overexploited with resulting impacts on global climate, agricultural production and biodiversity.
You will explore solutions for the sustainable provision of food, materials, energy and landscape in a changing global environment. The course includes a research project.
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| MSc Enterprise in Horticulture | |||||||||||
 Why choose this course? Successful horticultural enterprises require advanced skills in both modern business methods and cutting-edge plant science. This course is designed for those seeking a career in business relating to growing, supplying and marketing fresh horticultural produce in a competitive world market. The course will help you to improve productivity and recognise best practice throughout the world. The course includes a commercial placement.
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| MSc Plant Bioscience for Crop Production | |||||||||||
 Why choose this course? Improvements in crop production globally depend on the knowledge-led application of plant science and biotechnology. This course will develop your cutting-edge research skills across a range of plant science disciplines. The latest molecular and strategic bioscience techniques will be taught from a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines and analysed in the context of modern commercial practices. The course includes a research project. | |||||||||||
| MSc Food Security - New for 2010 | |||||||||||
 Why choose this course? Global food security, where the world's population has access to affordable, safe and nutritious food, is one of the major challenges of the 21st century.This course will give you an understanding of the elements that contribute to the food security agenda. Countries need to balance local and delocalised production with imports and environmental impact. Suppliers need to ensure year-long provision at both low cost and high quality for discerning and needy consumers. Climate change and world population growth put pressure on governments, producers and consumers to plan ahead for food security. | |||||||||||
| MSc Sustainable Crop Production: Agronomy for the 21st Century-New for 2010 | |||||||||||
 Why choose this course? Crop agriculture provides mankind's increasing population with food, fibres and fuel. This course provides the knowledge and practical skills for how crops are improved, grown and managed. It will also give you the understanding and background to allow you to adapt to future industry changes influenced by climate change, pressure on resources or food shortage.
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| Scholarships for taught courses | |||||||||||
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A bursary (deduction from tuition fees) is available to students studying a taught course at Warwick HRI full-time (£1,500 to UK and EU students; £1,300 to international [non-EU] students). Scholarships worth £2,000 and £3000 are also available. The closing date for scholarship applications is 30th June 2010.
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RESEARCH DEGREES
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| MSc by Research Plant and Environmental Science | |||||||||||
 This practical course is based on a single research project under the training
and supervision of one of our Research Leaders. Our research is interdisciplinary and ranges from fundamental laboratory science to field-based applied horticulture. | |||||||||||
| PhD Plant and Environmental Sciences | |||||||||||
PhD studentships are offered for projects closely linked to the research interests of Warwick HRI's leading scientists. Our research is interdisciplinary and ranges from fundamental laboratory science to field-based applied horticulture.Research areas include sustainable horticulture and crop science, genomics and bioinformatics, plants and the environment, plant microbe interactions, microbial diversity and soil systems, mathematical biology and novel crops. For more information on course structures and modules please visit
www.warwick.ac.uk/go/whri/study
For enquiries on taught MSc degrees email: whri.msc@warwick.ac.uk For enquiries on research degrees please email: whri.phd@warwick.ac.uk
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The Department Warwick HRI is at the forefront of research and teaching in plant, microbial and environmental sciences, underpinned by core capabilities in mathematical biology, biometrics, genomics and bioinformatics to improve horticulture, crops and the environment. We have the latest technologies for innovative personal study by research and taught degree programmes of the highest quality. 
imaging facilities, computer controlled glasshouses, controlled environment units and a BioConversion Unit, all complementing 150 hectares of field resources and rural landscape. 