Countryside Management (Joint Honours - Buxton)
What is Joint Honours?
With joint honours, you can study for an honours degree in two or even three subjects. Find out more about joint honours.
Why choose this course?
- The Joint Honours degree in Countryside Management at the University of Derby Buxton is one of the UK’s most innovative degrees in nature conservation, natural resource management and eco system services.
- The programme can be combined with Outdoor Recreation, Ecotourism or Adventure Tourism, which means that you will study two subject areas.
- Course content includes nature conservation, ecology, mapping, woodlands, moorlands, wetlands and grasslands management, invasive species, national parks and natural resource management.
- You will be based at our Oaklands Manor Outdoor Training Centre in Buxton, 58 hectares of mixed broad leaved woodland and moorland. Here you will learn the estate skills and practical experience you need to become a countryside manager. Buxton is on the edge of the Peak District National Park - perfect for exploring natural habitats and beautiful landscapes!
- You will take part in conservation days and field trips where you will develop your practical knowledge and learn estate skills.
- The Joint Honours programme is designed to give you excellent work placement opportunities with local and national conservation organisations.
- Competition for jobs in the conservation sector is intense. Give yourself the edge with a degree combining practical and theoretical conservation knowledge.






