Agriculture and Life Sciences

The Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences represents a land-based philosophy including research and teaching in:

Nutrition and health, soil and physical sciences, applied mathematics, statistics and computational modelling, biochemistry and cell biology, microbiology, toxicology, agronomy and plant science, food science, horticulture, viticulture and oenology, farm management, ecology, conservation and plant pathology.

There are four departments in the Faculty:

• Agricultural Sciences
• Ecology
• Wine, Food & Molecular Biosciences
• Soil and Physical Sciences

Staff are involved in a large number of academic programmes from undergraduate certificates and diplomas, through undergraduate degrees to postgraduate programmes.

The Faculty operates its own vineyard (1.5ha), horticultural research area, winery and nursery, and entomology museum as well as four research farms:

• Ashley Dene Pastoral Systems Research (355 ha)
•  Johnstone Memorial Lab Research Farm (38 ha)
• Iverson Field and Horticultural Area (37 ha)
• Lincoln University Research Dairy Farm (LUDRF) (33 ha)

The Faculty is research led and boasts a number of specific research centres, including:

• Centre for Soil and Environmental Quality
• Centre for Viticulture and Oenology
• Centre for Advanced computational Solutions

With an enviable international and national reputation and extensive links to other research organisations most notably the Marlborough Wine Research Centre, its research and postgraduate teaching are solidly linked.

Students qualifying from the Faculty's programmes are both readily employable and well rounded educationally. They are found in all walks of life, all over the globe.

Contact Agriculture and Life Sciences

Phone: +64 3 325 2811 extn. 8400

Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences
PO Box 84
Lincoln University
Lincoln 7647
Canterbury
New Zealand