Your Ecology and Conservation Offer

Congratulations on your offer. We hope to see you at one of our offer holder events. Take a look at some course info below and hear from our students.

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Join us

Our in-person and online events are a great way to find out more about your course, the community you'll be studying in, and they are an opportunity to meet staff and students, and experience subject taster sessions. Ecology and Conservation student Clementine hopes you can make it!

Your offer holder event

The dates

  • Saturday 14th February 2026
  • Saturday 14th March 2026
  • Saturday 11th April 2026

Sample schedule

Time

Activity

10.30am

Arrival in the department and registration

11am

Subject specific talk with Admissions Tutors

11.45am

Student life at Lancaster followed by Q&A session with ambassadors

12.15pm

Light lunch in department

1pm

Applicants - Subject taster session in the department
Parents - Q&A session and optional tour of the department

1.45pm

Wellbeing and support at Lancaster University talk

2.30pm

Event ends in department
Central activities (optional):
- Student experience hub
- Campus tours
- Accommodation tours

4.30pm

Event ends

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Learn on location

We take advantage of our natural surroundings to create amazing fieldwork experiences in addition to opportunities to travel the world with residential overseas field trips.

  • Scotland

    The ecology field course to Mull provides a chance to experience some amazing landscapes, from mountains to coasts and to learn about the ecology of key plant and animal species.

  • Kenya

    Based in the beautiful Rift Valley, you'll explore the staggering biodiversity of local aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, at the same time considering how best to monitor and protect it.

  • Cornwall

    Embark on a field trip to Cornwall's Eden Project, where you'll get hands-on experience learning about habitat preservation

Melissa Knott

A place for Abbie

My course at Lancaster University is like no other and it has everything I want from a degree. I am able to study topics in my first year that I have touched upon before, whilst discovering new things every day.

There are so many interesting modules, and the really great thing about my course is the wide range of subject areas we study, such as evolution, aquatic ecology, zoology and so much more. This means the scope of my learning is forever growing in the direction I want it to, especially as I have opportunities further down the line to specialise in my area of interest.

It's definitely an advantage that the University is on the Lake District's doorstep. I have many opportunities to visit various places which helps me to visualise my learning and delve deeper into ecology and conservation out in the field.

Abbie Pilkington, BSc Ecology and Conservation

Meet the Team

Professor Martin McAinsh

Professor Martin McAinsh

Director of Undergraduate Biology and Admissions Tutor for Zoology and Ecology & Conservation

My research focuses on plant cell biology. In particular, I am interested in how plants respond to environmental changes, such as drought or ozone pollution, and how this relates to sustainable agriculture. This research relates directly to my undergraduate teaching, which includes topics on plant responses to environmental change, biochemistry and cell biology. In addition to my teaching and research, I lead admissions to the portfolio of Biosciences degree programmes at Lancaster.

Dr Alex Bush

Dr Alex Bush

Senior Lecturer and Admissions Tutor for Ecology and Conservation

Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach

I am a lecturer of environmental remote sensing at Lancaster University, specializing in ecological modelling for monitoring, managing and conserving biodiversity at macroecological scales. I hold degrees from the University of East Anglia and Macquarie University in Sydney, and I subsequently took research fellowships with the Australian and Canadian governments. My interests are in methods and models that will support up-to-date ecological monitoring at national scales, that will guide and improve the sustainability of ecosystems as a whole, and that reduce the rate of biodiversity loss from our landscapes.

Keep in touch with us

If you would like more information, please feel free to email us at the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) at lec.ug@lancaster.ac.uk or telephone us on tel:+441524521772

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