Overview
The PhD programme in Environmental and Geographical Sciences at the University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM) is designed for individuals aiming to undertake advanced research in environmental monitoring, management, and conservation. This programme provides opportunities to contribute original knowledge under the guidance of experienced supervisors.
Research Areas
- Agro-tourism and community development
- Atmospheric composition and climate variability
- Climate change impact on biodiversity, conservation assessment of vulnerability of environment and adaptation strategies
- Conservation ecology of large animals, including the Management & Ecology of Malaysian Elephants (MEME)
- Conservation planning and prioritisation
- Disaster recovery monitoring and assessment – remote sensing multi-scale approach
- Distributed hydrological modelling: characterisation of watershed, precipitation, run off processes and hydrography shape
- Geospatial applications and capabilities for forecasting river floods and predicting urban watershed; climate change and its impact of terrestrial ecosystems
- Hydro-biogeochemical process and climate changes
- Institutional responses towards community participation in natural resources management
- Location-based crowd-sourcing data quality assessment
- Machine learning for remote sensing image analysis and high-performance computing
- Mapping and monitoring vegetation with UAV’s to enhance ecological knowledge
- Optical properties of water from different sources
- Remote sensing of intercrops
- Social and environmental impacts of mining past, present and future trajectories using remote sensing, GIS and social surveys methods
- Social capital and natural resources management
- Spatially explicit modelling of ecosystem services for regional-scale natural resource management and land use planning
- Sustainable intensification of agroecology for community development and agrobiodiversity conservation
- Tropical ecology and biodiversity conservation
- Valuing the ecosystem services
- Water pollution and public health
Requirements
| Qualification | Requirements |
|---|---|
| Academic Qualification | A master’s degree or a Master of Philosophy degree, plus at least a second-class honours degree (2:2) (or international equivalent) in science, engineering, or geography and environment-related subjects. Non-UK qualifications will be assessed against this standard. OR A master’s degree or a Master of Philosophy degree, plus at least a second-class honours degree (2:2) (or international equivalent) in science, engineering, or geography and environment-related subjects. Non-UK qualifications will be assessed against this standard. |
| English Language | – IELTS 6.0 (with no less than 5.5 in each element). – TOEFL (iBT) 80 (minimum 17 in Writing and Listening, 18 in Reading, 20 in Speaking). – PTE (Academic) 65 (with no less than 59 in each element). – MUET Band 4. |
Tuition Fee For International Students
| Details | Tuition Fee |
|---|---|
| Total | USD 37,887 |