Next month sees the launch of a new international PhD master class by the University of Aberdeen, which will address environmental and landscape changes.
The course will offer opportunities to PhD students to actively discuss approaches from the natural and social sciences, and to the humanities, with a team of international experts in environmental and landscape change.
In recent decades the speed of environmental and landscape change has accelerated and human induced change has reached higher impacts. Processes of change can be investigated by many disciplines, however, due to the links between natural and human systems, environmental and landscape change needs to be researched interdisciplinary.
Drs Bärbel Tress & Gunther Tress, from the School of Geosciences at the University have been involved in organising the event. Dr Bärbel Tress said: “The PhD master class, Environmental and Landscape Change: Addressing an Interdisciplinary Agenda, will discuss the latest research on environmental and landscape change and present techniques for overcoming practical and theoretical problems in the projects being studied by the PhD students.
“It will also train skills on how to integrate knowledge in order to address environmental and landscape change.
“Finally, it will help the students prepare and submit a paper for publication in an international peer-reviewed publication based on their own PhD research.”
Twenty-five PhD students from 20 countries, all involved in projects addressing environmental and landscape change, have been selected to participate. The selected PhD students are at least in their second year of study and meet for a full week with 10 international experts.
Environmental and Landscape Change: Addressing an Interdisciplinary Agenda, will be held in Scotland from October 2-8, 2006. Full details are available online: http://www.intels.cc/phd