This unit is designed to allow students to receive credit for their participation in speciality field intensives.
From time to time, the Environment Discipline has the opportunity to offer once-off or bespoke field intensives, associated with staff research projects and with external partners. These opportunities arise at specific times, and cannot be scheduled every year.
Students will gain practical field experience in areas such as rural development, tropical biology, freshwater ecology and conservation, or island biogeography and ecology. Students take the role of research associates, and collaborate with staff to collect data, related to the research focus of a particular program. Many intensives offered in the past have been at international locations.
Field intensives also include: logistic preparation (for travel, visa if applicable, personal health, safety planning, minor equipment, etc.); research preparation (understanding context, development of research questions, ethics clearances and practices); learning and applying practical skills; working with others to achieve tasks; practicing duty of care for one's own and others' physical safety and well-being. International intensives include additional opportunities for: developing inter-cultural skills; practicing in cross-cultural settings effectively, etc.
