This programme gives you the opportunity to grow your impact in either plant or vertebrate pest management. You’ll gain advanced in-depth knowledge and practical training that focuses on predator eradication and biosecurity. You’ll graduate with a specialist focus, along with a network of potential employers (through the research placement course) gained during your study.

How you’ll grow

• Seed the knowledge of how to design and implement environmentally sustainable and socially acceptable management programmes in response to specific pest problems
• Learn how to monitor the outcomes of pest management strategies, measuring impacts and pinpointing any developing physiological and behavioural resistance to control tools
• Grow your advanced understanding of existing pest control solutions along with their accepted limitations
• Gain in-depth understanding of adaptive management, and learn how to effectively share new research findings so they influence current practice
• Work alongside industry or gain a valuable placement in a relevant organisation.

Career opportunities

As a graduate of Lincoln University’s Master of Pest Management, you’ll be well positioned for a role in the primary production sector, with a government organisation involved with pest control and border safety, or as an agricultural consultant advising on pest control and plant protection.