We are delighted to launch our Conservation Research Institute Summer 2021 Studentship open to undergraduates at the University of Cambridge. We have a total of 10 great projects which will take place in July or August 2021 and will last for one month. These projects are only open to undergraduate students from the University of Cambridge.
Project 1: Biodiversity, Forest Management and REDD+ 2021
Supervisors: Dr Valerie Kapos (UNEP WCMC) and Professor Bhaskar Vira
Project 2: Should we standardise reporting in agricultural studies, and if so, how?
Supervisors: Professor William Sutherland and Dr Amelia Hood
Project 3: Developing Biodiversity Action Plans for Coton and Wandlebury Reserves, with Cambridge Past, Present & Future
Supervisors: Dr Cicely Marshall and Professor David Coomes
Project 4 Conserving microbial biodiversity for healthy waters
Supervisors: Dr Andrew Tanentzap and Dr Jeremy Fonvielle
Project 5: Assessing the views of the oil palm industry on sustainability practices, and their needs for evidence and guidance
Supervisors: Dr Edgar Turner, Dr Sarah Luke, and Michael Pashkevich
Project 6: Assessing the impacts of Covid-19 on-field centres around the world
Supervisors: Dr Sarah Luke and Dr Edgar Turner
Project 7: (July Only) Promoting the uptake of new guidelines for the socially responsible use of conservation monitoring technology
Supervisors: Dr Chris Sandbrook, Doug Clark and Steph O'Donnell
Project 8: Managing woodlands as Natural Climate Solutions (includes a field component)
Supervisors: Professor David Coomes and Dr Edmund Tanner
Project 9: (July Only) Investigating alternative scenarios for the sustainable post-covid recovery of the nature-based tourism industry in small island states
Supervisors: Dr Chris Sandbrook and Dr Sophia Cooke
Project 10: Assessing the effects of forest harvest on natural climate solutions
Supervisors: Dr Andrew Tanentzap and Erika C. Freeman